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(1239~1280)西藏名 Chos-rgyal-hphags-pa。又稱發思八、發合思巴、八合思巴、拔思發、怕克斯巴。乃西藏喇嘛教學僧,為薩迦派第五代祖師。出生於薩迦派之一族,十五歲為元世祖忽必烈授戒,並成為宗教顧問。十九歲時以佛教觀點批判老子化胡經,論破道士。其後入蒙,忽必烈崇為國師,統領總制院事,管理全國佛教及藏族地區事務,儼然成為中國佛教之主宰者。又受命創制蒙古文字,遂以西藏文字為基礎而制定,是即「八思巴文」,帝賜以「大寶法王」之號。師曾為太子真金開講彰所知論二卷(漢譯現存)。至元十三年(1276)返藏,興曲彌法會,自任薩迦寺第一代法王。著述凡三十餘種,以薩迦五祖集傳世。並促進內地與西藏之文化交流,將印刷術、戲劇藝術等傳至西藏,將藏族建築技巧、雕塑藝術等引至內地。蓋自八思巴時代以後,元朝始與薩迦派有密切往來。門下之膽巴(波)(藏 Dampa,1230~1303)曾於忽必烈與元成宗治下任官,並致力於佛教之振興。〔佛祖統紀卷四十八、元史列傳第八十九〕
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佛光電子大辭典
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Also 發思巴 Bashpa, Phagspa, Baghcheba, Blo-gros-rgyal-mtshah, Chos-rgyal-hphags-pa. A śramana of Tibet, teacher and confidential adviser of Kublai Khan, who appointed him head of the Buddhist church of Tibet A.D. 1260. He is the author of a manual of Buddhist terminology彰所知論 and translated another work into Chinese. In A.D. 1269 he constructed an alphabet for the Mongol language, "adapted from the Tibetan and written vertically," and a syllabary borrowed from Tibetan, known by the name of Hkhor-yig, for which, however, the Lama Chos-kyi-hod-zer 1307-1311 substituted another alphabet based on that of Śākya-pandita.
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A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous