Abhayākaragupta | |
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![]() 19th-century drawing of Abhayakaragupta | |
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Born | c. 1064 CE |
Died | c. 1125 CE |
Religion | Buddhism |
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Senior posting | |
Teacher | Ratnākaragupta |
Abhayākaragupta (Wylie: 'jigs-med 'byung-gnas sbas-pa) was a Buddhist monk, scholar and tantric master (vajracarya) and the abbot of Vikramasila monastery in modern-day, Bihar in India. He was born in somewhere in Eastern India,[1] and is thought to have flourished in the late 11th-early 12th century CE, and died in 1125 CE.[2][3]
Abhayākaragupta's magnum opus, the Vajravali, is a "grand synthesis of tantric liturgy" which developed a single harmonized tantric ritual system which could be applied to all Tantric Buddhist mandalas.[4]
According to A.K. Warder, Abhayākaragupta developed the Mantrayana-Madhyamaka doctrine to its final Indic form.[5] Matthew Kapstein sees him as "among the last great masters of Buddhism in India."[6]