ཤཱཀྱ་སིང་ཧ། | Glossary of Terms

ཤཱཀྱ་སིང་ཧ།

shAkya sing ha

śākyasiṃha

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Śākyasiṃha

The Sūtra of Nandika

Śākyasiṃha

ཤཱཀྱ་སིང་ཧ།

shAkya sing ha

śākyasiṃha

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An Indian scholar who was a contemporary of Kawa Paltsek. He was among the translators of The Sutra of Nandika into Tibetan. He also translated the Buddhamakuṭasūtra (Toh 274) along with the Tibetan translator Devendrarakṣita.

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