Jñānagarbha
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Jñānagarbha (Sanskrit: ज्ञानगर्भ, Tibetan: ཡེ་ཤེས་སྙིང་པོ་, Wyl. ye shes snying po) was an 8th-century Buddhist philosopher from Nalanda who wrote on Madhyamaka and Yogacara and is considered part of Bhāviveka's Svatantrika tradition.[1] He was a student of Shrigupta and the teacher and ordaining master of Śāntarakṣita.[2] Tibetan sources refer to him, Santaraksita and Kamalaśīla as rang rgyud shar gsum meaning the "three eastern Svātantrikas" indicating their origins from Eastern India.[3]