[INDOLOGY] Yaśomitra

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Dear colleagues,

I have been doing a literature search for biographical information about
Yaśomitra, author of the *Sphuṭārthā* commentary on Vasubandhu's
*Abhidharmakoṣabhāṣya* and the *vyākhyā* on Asaṅga's *Abhidharmasamuccaya*.
I am finding almost no information at all.  I see the date 580 in Potter's
EIP, but I don't know where he gets it.  I have looked in Poussin's,
Stcherbatsky, Law's introductions, in SARDS3 (several promising articles,
but I don't read Japanese :-( ), Panditproject, Google Scholar, etc.  While
his views and interpretations of the mūla texts get attention, I find no
discussion about his biographical information.

If you know of any scholarship specifically on Yaśomitra's personal
background, evidence for his date, place of dwelling, lineage, etc., I
would be very grateful for the information.  Is he the same Yaśomitra who
owned the so-called Bower MS, for example?

Best,
Dominik

--
Professor Dominik Wujastyk <http://ualberta.academia.edu/DominikWujastyk>
,

Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
,

Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
,
University of Alberta, Canada
.

South Asia at the U of A:

sas.ualberta.ca
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