Glossary
Types of attestation for names and terms of the corresponding source language
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Jñānasiddhi
Sanskrit: jñānasiddhi
An Indian paṇḍita who was resident in Tibet during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.
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Śākyaprabha
Sanskrit: śākyaprabha
An Indian paṇḍita who was resident in Tibet during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.
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Śīlendrabodhi
Sanskrit: śīlendrabodhi
An Indian paṇḍita who was resident in Tibet during the late eighth and early ninth centuries.
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Three Jewels
Wylie: dkon mchog gsum
Tibetan: དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
Sanskrit: triratna
The Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha—the three objects of Buddhist refuge. In the Tibetan rendering, “the three rare and supreme ones.”
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Yeshé Dé
Wylie: ye shes sde
Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་སྡེ།
Yeshé Dé (late eighth to early ninth century) was the most prolific translator of sūtras into Tibetan. Altogether he is credited with the translation of more than one hundred sixty sūtra translations and more than one hundred additional translations, mostly on tantric topics. In spite of Yeshé Dé’s great importance for the propagation of Buddhism in Tibet during the imperial era, only a few biographical details about this figure are known. Later sources describe him as a student of the Indian teacher Padmasambhava, and he is also credited with teaching both sūtra and tantra widely to students of his own. He was also known as Nanam Yeshé Dé, from the Nanam (sna nam) clan.