Vidyākaraprabha was an Indian translator active during the Tibetan imperial period. He is credited with collaborating on the translations of the Mahābherīsūtra, the Vinayavastu, the Vidhyottamātantra, and Haribhadra's important Abhisamayālaṃkāra commentary, the Abhisamayālaṃkāra-nāma-prajñāpāramitopadeśa-śāstra-vṛtti. He is also credited as the author of a work in the Madhyamaka section of the Tengyur, with the title Madhyamakanayasārasamāsaprakaraṇa, which he translated with Kawa Peltsek Rakṣita. ... read more at
Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt. मध्यमक Tib. དབུ་མ་ Ch. 中觀見