- Haribhadra (Seng-ge Bzang-po)
:"This article is about the Buddhist author of an "Abhisamayalankara" commentary. For the Jain logician, see
Haribhadra ."Haribhadra (Seng-ge Bzang-po) was an 8th-century (AD) Buddhist philosopher, and a disciple of
Shantarakshita , an early Indian Buddhist missionary to Tibet. 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 theYogacara Svatantrika Madhyamaka school.Haribhadra's intepretation of the "Abhisamayalankara", particularly his four-kaya model, was controversial and contradicted the earlier normative interpretation popularized by
Vimuktasena . Haribhadra's position was in turn challenged byRatnakarashanti andAbhayakaragupta . In Tibet the debate continued, withTsongkhapa championing Haribhadra's position andGorampa of theSakya school promoting the other. ["Buddhahood Embodied: Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet" By John J. MakranskyPublished by SUNY Press, 1997. ISBN 0791434311, 9780791434314 494 pages]Notes
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