Research & Article

Although Srivijaya was esteemed as a centre of Buddhist scholarship, only one example of its presumably extensive literature has survived. This is an abstruse philosophical commentary entitled Durbodhaloka composed at the beginning of the 11th century by Dharmakirti. Written originally in Sanskrit, it survives only in a Tibetan translation done by Atisa, a monk from Bengal who later travelled to Tibet. Information about the author and place and date of composition of the Durbodhiiloka is given in the colophon, which is studied in this paper.