Vidyākaraprabha was an Indian translator active during the Tibetan imperial period. He is credited with collaborating on the translations of the Mahābherīsūtra, the Vinayavastu, the Vidhyottamātantra, and Haribhadra's important Abhisamayālaṃkāra commentary, the Abhisamayālaṃkāra-nāma-prajñāpāramitopadeśa-śāstra-vṛtti. He is also credited as the author of a work in the Madhyamaka section of the Tengyur, with the title Madhyamakanayasārasamāsaprakaraṇa, which he translated with Kawa Peltsek Rakṣita.
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Mahābherīsūtra
One of the so-called tathāgatagarbha sūtras that features teachings on buddha-nature. In this text buddha-nature is possessed by all sentient beings and is described as luminous and pure. It is also attributed characteristics, such as being permanent, eternal, everlasting, peaceful, and a self, that echo the four perfect qualities (guṇapāramitās) often ascribed to the dharmakāya when it is treated as a synonym for buddha-nature. It also connects tathāgatagarbha to the notion of a single vehicle and asserts the definitive nature of the buddha-nature teachings in general and within this sūtra in particular.
Mahābherīsūtra;Vidyākaraprabha;bid+yA ka ra pra b+hA; Palgyi Lhunpo;dpal gyi lhun po;Guṇabhadra;'phags pa rnga bo che chen po'i le'u zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo;འཕགས་པ་རྔ་བོ་ཆེ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལེའུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།;Mahābherīhārakaparivartasūtra;大法鼓經
