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
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Professor
Dominik Wujastyk,
Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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University of Alberta, Canada
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