Dharmakīrtiśrī (Tibetan: Serlingpa; Wylie: gser gling pa; Chinese: 金州大師, literally "from Suvarnadvīpa"), also known as Kulānta and Suvarṇadvipi Dharmakīrti,[1][2] was a renowned 10th century Buddhist teacher. His name refers to the region he lived, somewhere in Lower Burma, the Malay Peninsula or Sumatra.[3]
Dharmakīrtiśrī was the teacher of a number of important late Mahayana Buddhist thinkers, including Ratnākaraśānti (fl. c. 970–1045), Atiśa, Jñānaśrīmitra and Ratnakīrti (both fl. late 10–early 11th c.).[4]
Dharmakīrtiśrī is the author of the Durbodhālokā (Light on the Hard-to-Illuminate), a sub-commentary to the Abhisamayālaṃkāra-śāstra-vṛtti of Haribhadra.[4] A Sanskrit manuscript of this work was discovered in the 20th century at Sakya Monastery.[4] He also wrote "The Wheel of Sharp Weapons".
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre, ed. José Ignacio Cabezón and Roger R. Jackson. Snow Lion: 1996 ISBN 1559390441 pg 546.
- ^ Gems of Wisdom from the Seventh Dalai Lama by Glenn H. Mullin Snow Lion: 1999 ISBN 1559391324 pg 11
- ^ Buswell, Robert Jr., ed. (2014). Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 247. ISBN 9780691157863.
- ^ a b c Sinclair, Iain. Dharmakirti of Kedah: His, life, work and troubled times. Temasek Working Paper No. 2: 2021. Temasek History Research Centre ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Further reading
edit- Skilling, Peter (1997). Dharmakirti of Suvartabhumi, Journal of the Siam Society 85, 187-194
External links
edit- Sinklair, Iain (2021). Dharmakirti of Kedah: His Life, Work and Troubled Times. ISEAS, Yusof Ishak Institute
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