Haribhadra (Buddhist philosopher)
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Haribhadra, also known as Shizi Xian (simplified Chinese: 狮子贤; traditional Chinese: 獅子賢; pinyin: Shīzixián) or Sengge Zangpo (Tibetan: སེང་གེ་བཟང་པོ་, Wylie: seng-ge bzang-po; both names mean "righteous lion") was an 8th-century CE Buddhist philosopher, and a disciple of Śāntarakṣita, an early Indian Buddhist missionary to Tibet. He was one of the founding monks of the Vikramashila monastery.[1] Haribhadra's commentary on the Abhisamayalankara was one of the most influential of the twenty-one Indian commentaries on that text, perhaps because of its author's status as Shantarakshita's student. Like his master, Haribhadra is retrospectively considered by Tibetan doxographical tradition to represent the Yogācāra-Svatantrika-Mādhyamaka school.
Haribhadra's interpretation of the Abhisamayalankara, particularly his four-kaya model, was controversial and contradicted the earlier normative interpretation popularized by
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- JSTOR 614403.
- ^ see Makransky link below, page 115
- ^ Buddhahood Embodied: Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet By John J. Makransky
Published by SUNY Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-7914-3431-4, 494 pages; [1]