An 8th century Indian master and exponent of the Yogacharya Madhyamika school. He was a disciple of Śāntarakṣita and accompanied the latter when he was invited by King Trisong Detsen to establish the Dharma in Tibet and found the monastery of Samye. [TLWF 2011]

One of the principal disciples of Shantarakshita, continuing his master's synthesis of the Madhyamika and Yogachara (ninth century). [LLB 2002]

(713–763). The principal disciple of Shantarakshita and an exponent with him of the Yogachara Madhyamika school. He was invited to Tibet, where he successfully debated with the Chinese master Hashang Mahayana, thereby definitively establishing the gradual approach of the Indian tradition as normative for Tibetan Buddhism. [TPQ, 2010]