Amoghavarṣa
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Amoghavarṣa (T. don yod ’char). A Jain scholar-king who flourished in the middle of the ninth century CE.[1]
He is the author of Vimalapraśnottara Ratnamālā, a treatise on ethics (nītiśāstra) that was translated into Tibetan in the eleventh century by Kamalagupta and Rinchen Zangpo (d. 1055), and included in the Tibetan Tengyur.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jamgon Mipham 2017, Final Verses and Colophon, Note 18.
Sources
Jamgon Mipham (2017), The Just King: The Tibetan Buddhist Classic on Leading an Ethical Life, translated by José Ignacio Cabezón, Snow Lion
Further reading
Amoghavarsha, Wikipedia
