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Amoghavajra (Don yod rdo rje), Indian in China, 704-774 CE.

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  • Tôh. nos. 1745, 1746, 1982, 1987, 1997, 2011, 3738.
  • The famous Vajrayāna teacher in China by this name lived 704-774.
  • Nakamura, p. 335.
  • Chimpa, THBI, p. 305.
  • Templeman, SIL, p. 66.
  • Templeman, TLK, p. 83.
  • Shaw, PE, p. 33.
  • Lancaster, PRS, p. 108.
  • Rolf W. Giebel, The Chin-kang-ting ching yü-ch'ieh shih-pa-hui chih-kuei: An Annotated Translation, Journal of the Naritasan Institute for Buddhist Studies, vol. 18 (1995), pp. 179-182.
  • Raffaello Orlando, A Study of Chinese Documents Concerning the Life of the Tantric Buddhist Patriarch Amoghavajra (A.D. 705-774), doctoral dissertation, Princeton University (1981).
  • For the intriguing idea that he was a disciple of Mañjśrīmitra, see Biographical Dictionary of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, vol. 1, p. 379.
  • In list of Later Spread (Phyi dar) period pundits in Tibet contained in Zhu chen, Bstan 'gyur dkar chag, p. 161, line 11 (Don yod rdo rje).
  • Blue Annals, pp. 163, 396, 729, 1042.
  • Snellgrove, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, pp. 361, 500.
  • Mkhas pa'i dga' ston, p. 1501.
  • Davidson, IEB, pp. 115, 145-146, 198, 204.
  • Tucci, TPS, pp. 222, 224 ff.
  • EoB. Lengthy biographical sketch. Other name: Amoghajñāna. At 14, he met Vajrabodhi in Yavadvīpa (Java) and came with him to China.
  • Woodward, EBSA, pp. 338-339.
  • Stog Palace catalogue, pp. 267, 284.
  • He is called an Indo-Sogdian monk, with the Chinese form of his name being Bukongjin'gang, in Sen, Revival, p. 32.
  • Stearns, Luminous Lives, pp. 56, 193, 208.
  • A mo gha ba dzra, the Vajrayāna teacher in China. Sngon gyi gtam me tog gi phreng ba, "A 13th-century source on history of Tibetan kings and rulers by Ne'u Paṇḍi ta Grags pa smon lam blo gros, with other rare historical texts from the library of Burmiok Athing," T.D. Densapa, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives (Dharamsala 1985), p. 534.
  • Charles Orzech, The Legend of the Iron Stūpa, contained in: Donald S. Lopez, ed., Buddhism in Practice, Princeton University Press (Princeton 1995), pp. 314-317.
  • Pachow, VBM, pp. 17-19.
  • Mookerji, Ancient, pp. 607-608.
  • McBride, Spells, pp. 107-113.
  • Arrived in China during the time of Thang Ming hu'ang Rgyal po (Tang Minghuang). Thuken, p. 357.