Kamalaśīla (active 713-763)
པདྨའི་ངང་ཚུལ་ pad+ma’i ngang tshul

Biography

  • “Kamalashila.” Rigpa Wiki. rigpawiki.org
  • Ruegg, David Seyfort. 1981. The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India. Harrassowitz. pp 93-99. JABL  WorldCat 

Noted Scholars

James A. Blumenthal

Works

Bhāvanākrama
Stages of Meditation
bsgom pa’i rim pa
བསྒོམ་པའི་རིམ་པ།
Tibetan text (initial, middling, final)
Sanskrit

  • Adam, Martin T. and Kamalaśīla. 2002. Meditation and the Concept of Insight in Kamalaśīla’s Bhāvanākrama. Dissertation. McGill University. WorldCat
  • Adam, Martin T. 2006. “Two Concepts of Meditation and Three Kinds of Wisdom in Kamalaśīla’s Bhāvanākramas: A Problem of Translation.” Buddhist Studies Review, 23 (1): 71–92. https://journal.equinoxpub.com
  • ​​Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, Kamalaśīla, Geshe Lobsang Jordhen, Losang Choephel Ganchenpa, and Jeremy Russell, trans. 2001. Stages of Meditation: [Commentary]. Snow Lion Publications.  JABL
  • Kamalaśīla and Paramananda Sharma. 2004. Bhāvanākrama of Kamalaśīla. Aditya Prakashan. JABL
  • Kamalaśīla, Lhundup Sopa, Geshe, Elvin W. Jones, and John Newman, trans. [n.d.] Middle Length Stages of Meditation PDF

Tattvasaṃgraha-pañjikā
Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Compendium of Reality

  • Śāntarakṣita, Ganganatha Jha, and Kamalaśaila. 1986. The Tattvasaṅgraha of Śāntarakṣita: With the Commentary of Kamalaśaila. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL

Madhyamakālaṅkārapañjikā
Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Ornament of the Middle Way
dbu ma’i rgyan gyi dka’ ‘grel
དབུ་མའི་རྒྱན་གྱི་དཀའ་འགྲེལ་ 
Tibetan

 


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