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by the translators, called the Mahāvyutpatti (Tib. bye-brag rtogs-byed chen-po).
A close study on this subject sugge ts that the compositions of the famous Indian scholars like Nagarjuna, Rahulabhadra, Aryadeva, Chandrakırtti, Vasubandhu, Dinnaga, Dharmakirtti, Dharmottara, Jayananda, Kalidasa and Asvaghosa etc have been included in the translations and now these translations are being preserved in the collections of the Kangyur and Bstan-'gyur.
TULSI-PRAJŇĀ
The monograph, entitled Ran-bshin-gsum-la 'zug-pa'i sgrub-pa of Arya Nagarjuna (Tib. 'phags pa klu-sgrub), has been selected for the reconstruction into Sanskrit. Its original Sanskrit is not available. It has been taken from the Bstan-'gyur collections. The original Sanskrit title of this work is the "Svabhāvatraya-praveśa-siddhi”.
It is a known fact that the great Buddhist Philosopher Nagarjuna of first century A.D. established the Madhyamika School of the Mahayana Buddhism, some Indian sources suggest that Rahulabhadra was the immediate predecessor and teacher of the founder of the Madhyamika system. Chinese and Tibetan scholars do not accept this view. They argue that Nagariuna and Rahulabhadra were contemporary and the latter one was a disciple of the former. Ruegg suggests that "those who think Rahulabhadra as the teacher of Nagarjuna (founder of Madhyamika system) is perhaps owing to a confusion with a later Nagarjuna (Arya Nagarjuna) whose master Saraha was otherwise known as Rahulabhadra". (Refer: A History of Indian Literature the Literature, of the Madhyamika school of Philosophy in India; 1981, p. 105).
The founder of the Madhyamika system may not be accepted as the author of the text under discussion. The subject matter of the text entitled-Svabhāvatrayaprave'sa siddhi is related to the theories of the Vijñānavāda school, but not to that of the Madhyamika system. Three svabhavas i c. kalpita, paratantra and parinişpanna are the main subject matter of the present text. Thus, the work Ran-bshingsum-la 'zug-pa'i sgrub-pa belongs to the Vijñānavāda school There is also another work entitled Trisvabhavanirdesh (Tib. Ran-bhshin-gsumla nes-parbstan-pa) which deals with the same subject that is found in the Svabhavatrayapravesasiddhi of Arya Nagarjuna. Some scholars believe that both the works are identical and have been written by an identical author as: "This work has two translations. Both of them are fairly literal and there is only a little difference between them and the original Sanskrit text. One of these translations was made by an
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