Haribhadra (Seng-ge Bzang-po)

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This article is about the Buddhist author of an Abhisamayalankara commentary. For the Jain logician, see Haribhadra.

Haribhadra (Seng-ge Bzang-po) was an 8th-century (AD) Buddhist philosopher, and a disciple of Shantarakshita, an early Indian Buddhist missionary to Tibet. Haribhadra's commentary on the Abhisamayalankara was the most influential of the twenty-one Indian commentaries on that text, perhaps because of its author's status as Shantarakshita's student. Like his master, Haribhadra is retrospectively considered by Tibetan doxographical tradition to represent the Yogacara Svatantrika Madhyamaka school.