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Dharmasena (Chos kyi sde, Chos sde)

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  • Bu-ston, Yogatantra, p. 126.6, 127.3.
  • A monk who composed the Saddharmaratnāvaliya ("Jewel Doctrine of the True Doctrine") in Sinhalese. See Ranjini Obeyesekere's entry "Sinhala, Buddhist Literature in," contained in: Buswell's EoB, pp. 777-779.
  • Ranjini Obeyesekere, tr., The Jewel of the Doctrine: Stories of the Saddharmaratnāvaliya, State University of New York Press (Albany 1991).
  • Ranjini Obeyesekere, tr., Portraits of Buddhist Women: Stories from the Saddharmaratnāvaliya, State University of New York Press (Albany 2001).
  • The seal of a person by this name was found at Nālandā. Hiranand Sastri, Nālandā, p. 59.