Dharmakīrtiśrī (Tibetan: Serlingpa; Wylie: gser gling pa; Chinese: 金州大師, literally "from Suvarnadvīpa"), also known as Kulānta and Suvarṇadvipi Dharmakīrti,[1][2] was a renowned 10th century Buddhist teacher.
His name refers to the region he lived, somewhere in Lower Burma, the Malay Peninsula or Sumatra.
[3] Dharmakīrtiśrī was the teacher of a number of important late Mahayana Buddhist thinkers, including Ratnākaraśānti (fl.
[4] Dharmakīrtiśrī is the author of the Durbodhālokā (Light on the Hard-to-Illuminate), a sub-commentary to the Abhisamayālaṃkāra-śāstra-vṛtti of Haribhadra.
[4] A Sanskrit manuscript of this work was discovered in the 20th century at Sakya Monastery.