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'''Anandagarbha''' (Skt. ''Ānandagarbha''; Tib. ཀུན་དགའ་སྙིང་པོ་, Wyl. ''kun dga' snying po'') was a major East-Indian scholar of the Buddhist [[Mantrayana]] and especially of [[Yoga Tantra]].<ref name="ftn1">Sanderson, Alexis, ''The Influence of Śaivism on Pāla Buddhism'', Lecture at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, 26 February 2010.</ref> The translators of the second dissemination of Buddhism to Tibet consider him, together with [[Buddhaguhya]] and Shakyamitra (Skt. ''Śākyamitra''; Tib. ''ShA kya bShes gnyen'') as one of the ''Three Experts on Yoga ''(Tib. ''yo ga la mi mkhas pa gsum'').<ref name="ftn2">Dalai Lama, ''Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats'', (New York: Snow Lion, 2005): 18.</ref> 

[[Taranatha]] says that he was born in a Vaishya family in Magadha, studied at [[Vikramashila]] and belonged to the Mahasamghika (Skt. ''Mahāsāṃghika'') sect. Taranatha places his life during the reign of king Mahipala (Skt. ''Mahīpāla''), who lived in the 9<sup>th</sup> century.<ref name="ftn3">Chattopadhyaya, Debiprasad, ed.,&nbsp;''Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India'', (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1990): 284 – 287.</ref> A short colophon in one of Anandagarbha’s works suggests that Anandagarbha’s main teacher was Vajravaram from Shri Lanka.<ref name="ftn4">Skorupski, Tadeusz, ''The Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra - Elimination of All Evil Destinies'', (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1983): xxv.</ref>

Anandagarbha is known for his commentaries, ritual manuals and [[sadhana]]s on the Sarvatathagatatattvasamgraha (Skt. ''Sarvatathāgatatattvasaṃgraha''), [[Sarvabuddhasamayoga]], [[Web of Magical Illusion|Mayajala]], Sarvadurgatiparishodhana (Skt. ''Sarvadurgatipariśodhana''), Guhyasamaja and Paramadya'' ''(Skt. ''Paramādya''). The [[Tengyur]] attributes 21 works to Anandagarbha.<ref name="ftn5">Plus, one additional commentary (D 1917), which was mistakenly attributed to Ānandagarbha.</ref> There is furthermore one sadhana, the'' ''Vajrajvalodaya-sadhanopayika'' ''(Skt. ''Vajrajvālodayā-sādhanopayikā'')'', ''still available in Sanskrit, which was not translated into Tibetan.<ref name="ftn6">Szántó, Peter-Daniel & Arlo Griffiths, "Sarvabuddhasamāyogaḍākinījālaśaṃvara", In ''Brill Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Vol. I Literature and Languages'', (Leiden: Brill 2015): 368.</ref> Interestingly this sadhana was not found in India, but rather in [[Samye]] in Tibet. Most of Anandagarbha’s works were translated during the second dissemination, particularly by [[Rinchen Zangpo]].<ref name="ftn7">Roerich, George N.'' The Blue Annals''. Calcutta: Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1949: 352.</ref>

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==Further Reading==
* Chattopadhyaya, Debiprasad, ed. Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1990: 284 – 287.
* Skorupski, Tadeusz. ''The Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra - Elimination of All Evil Destinies''. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1983: xxv.
* Sanderson, Alexis. ''The Influence of Śaivism on Pāla Buddhism''. Lecture at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, 26 February 2010. Nine-page handout.
* Dalai Lama. ''Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats''. Translated by Hopkins Jeffrey. New York: Snow Lion, 2005.
* Roerich, George N.'' The Blue Annals''. Calcutta: Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1949: 352.

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