Jnanasutra. (need dates) is a Vajrayana

Vajrayana

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 Dzogchenpa who was a disciple of Sri Singha

Sri Singha

Shri Singha was a principal disciple and dharma-son of Manjushrimitra in the Dzogchen lineage.Vajranatha contextualises Sri Singha in relation to the Nyingma, Manjushrimitra, Tantra, Brahman, Garab Dorje, Uddiyana, Vimalamitra, Samye and Yogachara:According to the Nyingmapa tradition of Tibetan...

. Jnanasutra was a spiritual brother of Vimalamitra

Vimalamitra

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, another principal disciple of Sri Singha.

Disambiguation

There appear to be two Jnanasutras, with different Tibetan orthography for their names. Yeshe Do (Tibetan: ye shes mdo one flourished from the 5th - 6th centuries and was a disciple of Sri Singha, the other was a principal translator Yeshe De (Wylie: Ye shes sde; 8th-9th century), lotsawa

Lotsawa

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, of the first wave of the Nyingmapa, known as the Ngagyur (Wylie: sna ’gyur), which began in the 7th century and continued until the time of Atisha

Atisha

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Nomenclature, orthography and etymology

Jnanasutra (Tibetan: ye shes mdo) is sometimes rendered as Yeshe De.

In Jigme Lingpa

Jigme Lingpa

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's terma of the Ngondro

Ngöndro

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 of the Longchen Nyingtig he writes what approximates the phonemic Sanskrit of 'Jnanasutra' in Tibetan script as , rather than his name in Tibetan and this comes just after a sentence to Sri Singha and before mentioning Vimalamitra.

Biography

Yeshe De (Wylie: ye shes sde; Sanskrit: Jnanasutra), a Nyingmapa, was according to Tarthang Tulku

Tarthang Tulku

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 (1980) the principal 'translator' (Tibetan: lotsawa

Lotsawa

Lotsawa is a Tibetan word used as a title to refer to the native Tibetan translators, such as Vairotsana, Rinchen Zangpo, Marpa and others, who worked alongside Indian scholars or panditas to translate the texts of the buddhist canon into Tibetan from Sanskrit, Chinese and other Asian languages...

) of the first wave of translations from Sanskrit to Tibetan.

Jnanasutra left his body 994 years after Shakyamuni Buddha's parinirvana

Parinirvana

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