Jinamitra, Jina-mitra: 4 definitions
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Ayurveda (science of life)
Source: archive.org: Vagbhata’s Ashtanga Hridaya Samhita (first 5 chapters)Jinamitra (जिनमित्र) refers to one of the Pundits travelling with Rin-chen-bzaṅ-po (Ratnabhadra): one of the translators of the Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā: one of the three great works of Vāgbhaṭa.—Ratnabhadra paid three visits to adjacent Kashmir and there studied Tantrayāna with 75 pundits; the most eminent among them were Śraddhākaravarman, Kamalagupta, and Jinamitra. At the age of 49, he joined the order of Bla-chen, which sought to remedy the abuses of Buddhism that had cropped up after its persecution by King Glaṅ-dar-ma.
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryJinamitra (जिनमित्र):—[=jina-mitra] [from jina] m. Name of one of the translators of [Lalita-vistara]
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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Full-text: Shraddhakaravarman, Kamalagupta, Dhvajagrakeyuradharani, Ratnabhadra.
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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)
Appendix 9 - The Praśānta-sūtra < [Chapter XXXIX - The Ten Powers of the Buddha according to the Abhidharma]
The Ratnakūṭa-sūtra < [Part 3 - Outshining the knowledge of all the Śrāvakas and Pratyekabuddhas]
Blue Annals (deb-ther sngon-po) (by George N. Roerich)
Chapter 3 - Abhidharma lineages < [Book 6 - The Origin of the Mādhyamika (middle way)]
Nalanda and other Buddhist Universities in < [July – September, 1994]
Bhesajjakkhandhaka (Chapter on Medicine) (by Hin-tak Sik)
(a) The Vinaya Piṭaka < [Chapter 2 - Background Information]
Complete works of Swami Abhedananda (by Swami Prajnanananda)
Chapter 10 - Lamaism in Tibet < [Discourse 7 - Thoughts on Sankhya Buddhism and Vedanta]
Bodhisattvacharyavatara (by Andreas Kretschmar)
Translator’s Introduction < [Introduction Text]
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