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Śrīsiṅgha, active 8th century-9th century

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Personal name headingŚrīsiṅgha, active 8th century-9th century
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Variant(s)Dpal-gyi-seṅ-ge-mgon-po, active 8th century-9th century
Rig-ʼdzin chen-po Śrī Siṁha, active 8th century-9th century
Śrīsiṅgha, 8th/9th cent.
Beginning date07
Ending date08
Found inThe Sde-dge Mtshal-par Bkaʼ-ʼgyur. KA PA [v. 97]. Rñiṅ rgyud, 1977: contents p. (Śrīsiṅgha; Dpal-gyi-seṅ-ge-mgon-po)
The Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, 1991: v. 1, p. 497-500 (he was born in the city of Shokyam in China [Khotan]; disciples of Śrīsiṅgha included the masters Vimalamitra, Jñānasūtra, Padmasambhava and Vairotsana)
Masters of the Nyingma lineage, 1995: p. 15-16 (Rig-ʼdzin Chen-po Śrī Siṁha, 8th century C.E., was a disciple of the great Vidyādhara Mañjuśrm̄itra, who instructed him for twenty-five years; Śrī Siṁha discovered the Man-ṅag-gi-sde of the Atiyoga concealed by Mañjuśrm̄itra and codified it in four parts of the outer, inner, secret and the most inner secret cycles)