འདལ་བ་གཞ notes.1.49

notes.1.49

49. There is some uncertainty in the Tibetan tradition regarding how the author’s name should be rendered in Sanskrit, whether Kalyāṇamitra or Śubhamitra. Tāranātha speaks of the Vinaya master dge legs bshes gnyen, a contemporary of Haribhadra (late eighth century ce), but fails to offer a Sanskrit equivalent for his name (Tāranātha, 2007, 203). Khetsun Zangpo appears to be speaking of the same master when he says the mdo sde ’dzin pa Shu bha mi tra (the sūtra master Śubhamitra) was one of several adherents of the Vijñapti philosophy who contributed to the spread of sūtra and vinaya in the ninth century ce, shortly after Kṛṣṇācārya’s time (Khetsun, 1971, 567). If Khetsun Zangpo is correct in his characterization, it would suggest the mdo sde in the epithet mdo sde ’dzin pa refers to the sūtrapiṭaka and not Sautrāntika tenets, as some have suggested. Six of Kalyāṇamitra’s (or Śubhamitra’s) works on vinaya are included in the Tengyur: the Vinayavastuṭīkā (’dul ba gzhi rgya cher ’grel pa), the Vinayāgamottaraviśeṣāgamapraśnavṛtti (’dul ba lung bla ma’i bye brag lung zhu ba’i ’grel pa), the Pratimokṣavṛttipadapremotpādikā (so sor thar pa’i ’grel tshig dga’ ba bskyed pa), the Śrāmaṇeraśikṣāpadasūtra (dge tshul gyi bslab pa’i gzhi’i mdo), the Vinayapraśnakārikā (’dul ba dri ba’i tshig le’ur byas pa), and the Vinayapraśnaṭīkā (’dul ba dri ba rgya cher ’grel pa) (Prebish, 1994, 105–12).