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'''Prajñāvarman''' (Tibetan: ''shes rab go cha'') was an 8th-century [[List of writers on Buddhism|Buddhist writer]]. He lived during the reigns of the [[Pala Empire|Pala]] king, [[Gopala I]] and the Tibetan emperor [[Trisong Detsen]], under whose auspices he came to Tibet.<ref name="schneider" />{{rp|18}} He was a contemporary of [[Jinamitra]].<ref name="wiley">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5i3qAgAAQBAJ | title=The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | author=Poceski, Mario | year=2014 | pages=552 | isbn=1118610350}}</ref><br />
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Prajñāvarman contributed to the translation of 77 Buddhist works from Sanskrit into Tibetan and is the author of three commentaries preserved in the [[Tengyur]], namely the ''Devātiśāyastotraṭīkā'' ({{transl|bo|italic=no|lha las phul du byung pa'i bstod pa gnyis kyi 'grel pa}}), the ''Udānavargavivara'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=3681860 | title=Review of Michael Balk 'Arbeitsmaterialien A, Prajñāvarman's Udānavargavivara' | publisher=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies | date=1988 | accessdate=17 September 2014 | author=Skorupski, Tadeusz}}</ref>{{rp|160}} and the ''Viśeṣastavaṭikā'' ({{transl|bo|italic=no|khyad par du 'phags pa'i bstod pa'i rgya cher bshad pa}}) a commentary on [[Udbhaṭasiddhasvāmin]]'s ''[[Viśeṣastava]]''.<ref name="schneider">Schneider, Johannes (1993). ''Der Lobpreis der Vorzüglichkeit des Buddha.'' Bonn: Indica et Tibetica Verlag.</ref>{{rp|21}} The ''Viśeṣastavaṭikā'' was translated into Tibetan by [[Rinchen Zangpo|Rin-chen-bzang-po]] (958-1055) and Janārdhana.<ref name="schneider" />{{rp|21}} The Sanskrit original is now lost.<br />
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Among his translations is the ''Abhayapradā-nāma-aparājita'' ({{transl|bo|italic=no|'Phags pa gzhan gyis mi thub pa mi 'jigs pa sbyin pa}}) co-translated with [[Yeshe De|Ye shes sde]] (published as Tôh. no. 708 and no. 928). Derge Kanjur, vol. TSA, folios 176v.1-177v.6.)<br />
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