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Guṇamati (Yon tan blo gros)

Dictionary Definition: 

  • Chimpa, THBI, pp. 210, 212.
  • Nālandā, LMT, p. 128.
  • Blue Annals, pp. 34, 1071.
  • Nakamura, pp. 111, 238, 280.
  • Brian Galloway, A Yogācāra Analysis of the Mind Based on the Vijñāna Section of Vasubandhu's Pañcaskandhaprakaraṇa with Guṇamati's Commentary, Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, vol. 3, no. 2 (1980), pp. 7-20.
  • Sherburne, p. 239.
  • Teacher at Nālandā at time of Hsüan-tsang. Hiranand Sastri, Nālandā, p. 16.
  • Mookerji, Ancient, p. 517.
  • Verhagen, SIBH4, pp. 564-565. Among his works which have not survived are a commentary on Abhidharmakośa and another on Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.
  • Schaeffer, Dreaming, p. 50.
  • 6th century disciple of Bhavya. A Guṇamati monastery, founded and named for him, survives in a state of ruin at Dharaut, near Jehanabad, not far from Patha. Cabezón, Great Debates, pp. 83-86.

Bibliography:

  • Lakṣaṇānusāraśāstra.
    • Nakamura, p. 280. Exists in Chinese.
    • Perhaps this is the Abhidharmakośaṭīkā Lakṣaṇānusāriṇī, of which a fragment has survived; see Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 118, no. 1 (1998), p. 121.
  • Pratītyasamutpādādivibhaṅganirdeśaṭīkā (Rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba dang po dang rnam par dbye ba bstan pa'i rgya cher bshad pa). Tôh. no. 3996. Dergé Tanjur, vol. CHI, folios 61v.1-234r.7. Tr. by Surendraprabha and Nam mkha'.
    • Ldan dkar ma (Lalou no. 650): Rnam par bshad pa'i 'grel pa / Slob dpon Yon tan blo gros kyis mdzad pa.
    • G. Muroji, Guṇamati's Version of the PSAVN (Pratītyasamutpādādivibhaṅganirdeśa). Helmut Krasser, Michael T. Much, Ernst Steinkellner, Helmut Tauscher, eds., Tibetan Studies I and II: Proceedings of the 7th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Graz 1995, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien 1997), vol. 2, pp. 647-656.
  • Vyākhyāyuktiṭīkā (Rnam par bshad pa rigs pa'i bshad pa). Tôh. no. 4069. Dergé Tanjur, vol. SI, folios 139v.1-301r.7. Tr. by Viśuddhasiṃha, Śākyasiṃha and Devendrarakṣita. No author given in Tôh., although a footnote says that the Cordier catalog attributes this to Guṇamati (Yon tan blo gros).