Dharmakīrtiśrī (Tibetan: Serlingpa; ; , literally "from Suvarnadvīpa"), also known as Kulānta and Suvarṇadvipi Dharmakīrti,Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre, ed. José Ignacio Cabezón and Roger R. Jackson. Snow Lion: 1996 pg 546.Gems of Wisdom from the Seventh Dalai Lama by Glenn H. Mullin Snow Lion: 1999 pg 11 was a renowned 10th century Buddhist teacher. His name refers to the region he lived, somewhere in Lower Burma, the Malay Peninsula or Sumatra.
Dharmakīrtiśrī was the teacher of a number of important late Mahayana Buddhist thinkers, including Ratnākaraśānti (fl. c. 970–1045), Atiśa, Jñānaśrīmitra and Ratnakīrti (both fl. late 10–early 11th c.).Sinclair, Iain. Dharmakirti of Kedah: His, life, work and troubled times. Temasek Working Paper No. 2: 2021. Temasek History Research Centre ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
Dharmakīrtiśrī is the author of the Durbodhālokā (Light on the Hard-to-Illuminate), a sub-commentary to the Abhisamayālaṃkāra-śāstra-vṛtti of Haribhadra. A Sanskrit manuscript of this work was discovered in the 20th century at Sakya Monastery.
References
Further reading Skilling, Peter (1997). Dharmakirti of Suvartabhumi, Journal of the Siam Society 85, 187-194
External links Sinklair, Iain (2021). Dharmakirti of Kedah: His Life, Work and Troubled Times. ISEAS, Yusof Ishak Institute