Kamalashila; 蓮花戒 (噶瑪拉希拉); Tibetan: ཀ་མ་ལ་ཤཱི་ལ, པདྨའི་ངང་ཚུལ (peme ngang tsul); Wylie: ka ma la shI la, pad+ma’i ngang tshul; Sanskrit: Kamalashila;
Kamalashila (740-795) was an Indian Buddhist, 12th abbot of Nalanda, one of the Seventeen Nalanda Masters. He went to Tibet at the request of Trisong Detsen. He represented Vajrayana in the famous Samye debate resulting in Tibetan Buddhism rejecting Chan (sudden-enlightenment process) Buddhism.
His main works include Trilogy of Stages of Meditation (bhavanakrama) and Commentary on Madhyamālaṃkāra.
蓮華戒 (740-795) 印度瑜伽行中觀派佛教僧,為寂護大師之徒,跟隨師入藏, 那爛陀十七班智達之一。在桑耶寺「拉薩法諍」辯經大會,蓮華戒大師獲勝,從此藏傳佛教以寂護大師與蓮花戒的見解為主流。著作包括《修次三篇》。
