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Dharmākara (Chos kyi ‘byung gnas)

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  • Templeman, SIL, p. 54 (disciple of Jñānamitra), 60.
  • Blue Annals, p. 761.
  • See Kosambi and Gokhale, Subhāṣitaratnakoṣa, p. lxxx.
  • Tucci, TPS, p. 611 (a monk by the name, pp. 360, 370).
  • Nakamura, pp. 202, 205, 206 note.
  • Bu-ston, Yogatantra, p. 126.6 (Chos kyi 'byung gnas), 144.7 (Dharma ka ra).
  • Stog Palace catalogue, index.
  • Jiryo Masuda, Origin and Doctrine of Early Indian Buddhist Schools, Asia Major, vol. 2 (1925), pp. 5-78, at p. 6. Translator of the work by Vasumitra.
  • Once or twice the ordinator of the 13-year-old Pha dam pa at Vikramaśīla is said to be Mkhan po Chos kyi 'byung gnas (more often it is said to be Dge ba'i 'byung gnas).
  • Donald S. Lopez, ed., Buddhism in Practice, Princeton University Press (Princeton 1995), p. 364.
  • Name of the Bodhisattva who would later become Akṣobhya. Jan Nattier, The Indian Roots of Pure Land Buddhism: Insights from the Oldest Chinese Versions of the Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha, Pacific World, third series no. 5 (Fall 2003), pp. 179-202, at p. 189.
  • Shakya, Self-Arisen, p. 46.