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    Chandragomin (Skt. Candragomin) was an Indian Buddhist lay scholar and poet. The Tibetan tradition believes he challenged Chandrakirti. Chandragomin was...
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    Later Buddhist authors like Asvaghosa, Matrceta, Asanga, Vasubandhu, and Candragomin also came from brahmin families. Some early sources even praise brahmins...
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  • by the Jain author Jainendra and the Cāndra grammar by the Buddhist Candragomin. Patanjali's Great Grammatical Discourse [Vyakrana-Mahābhāṣya] is regarded...
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    Indian authors like Sūryagupta (a.k.a. Ravigupta, c. 7th-8th century), Candragomin and Atisha also wrote texts discussing "twenty one Tārās" and the Tārā...
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    Madhyamaka teachings and defended them in a famous debate with the grammarian Candragomin, who supported the idealist position of the Vijñanavada (Doctrine of...
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    Pramānavārttikatīkā of Śamkaranandana (with Samghaśrī) Samksiptapranidhāna of Candragomin Amarakośa of Amarasimha (partial) Kāvyādarśa of Dandin (partial) Āryaguhyamanitilaka...
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    training and practice of a bodhisattva and is actually a commentary on Candragomin's Bodhisattvasaṃvaraviṃśaka. It is also related to the Bodhisattvabhumi...
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    commentary (vrtti) on the Kātantra (c. between the sixth and eighth cent.) Candragomin's Cāndravyākaraṇa (c. 450 CE) and its vrtti The medical treatise found...
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  • in India and Tibet; another remarkable epistle extant in Sanskrit is Candragomin's "Letter to a disciple" (śiṣyalekhā ), also outlining the Buddhist path...
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