Guṇaprabha
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Guṇaprabha (T. yon tan 'od ཡོན་ཏན་འོད་; C. Deguang/Junabolapo; J. Tokkō/Kunaharaba; K. Tŏkkwang/Kunaballaba 德光/瞿拏鉢剌婆) (d.u.; c. 7th century).[1] An Indian scholar specializing in the Yogacara and Vinaya teachings. In the Tibetan tradition, he is considered one of the most important of the Indian scholars because of his exposition of the vinaya.[1]
He was the chief student of Vasubandhu in the subject of Vinaya.[2]
His works include:[2]
- Vinayasūtra, a summary of the Mūlasarvāstivāda vinaya
- Bodhisattvabhūmivṛtti, a running commentary on the Bodhisattvabhumi
- Bodhisattvaśīlaparivartabhāṣya, an expansion of Bodhisattvabhūmivṛtti
- Pañcaskandhavivaraṇa, a commentary on Summary of the Five Heaps
In Tibet, Guṇaprabha is included in the following groups of great Indian scholars:
- the Two Supreme Ones (mchog gnyis), along with Śākyaprabha,[1] and
- the Seventeen Nalanda Masters
Gunaprabha is also the name of a Buddha in the presence of whom the buddha Kusumadatta (243 according to the third enumeration) first gave rise to the mind of awakening.[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Guṇaprabha
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2
ཡོན་ཏན་འོད་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
Further reading
Guṇaprabha, Bodhicitta: A Tsadra Foundation Project
Gunaprabha, Rigpa Shedra Wiki- Paul K. Nietupski, 'Guṇaprabha’s Vinayasūtra Corpus: Texts and Contexts', JIATS 5, 2009 (Available online here)
