The Sanskrit term Sūkṣmāvarttabhaṭṭa can be transliterated into English as Suksmavarttabhatta or Sukshmavarttabhatta, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (tantric Buddhism)

Sūkṣmāvarttabhaṭṭa (सूक्ष्मावर्त्तभट्ट) is another name for Ratnavajra: the supposed author of the Caturthasadbhāvopadeśa, an attribution found in the colophon (D 159b3–4): “the great Kashmiri master … Ratnavajra” (kha che’i slob dpon chen po … dpal rin chen rdo rje). We see the same name in unit (e). Sūkṣmāvarttabhaṭṭa and Ratnavajra are one and the same, as the last verse of the work reveals: [...]. The underlying meaning is clear enough: the author identifies himself as a Kashmiri master called Ratnavajra, also known as Sūkṣmāvartaśrī, as āvartta—with a slight stretch—can be reconstructed from rtogs pa, whereas śrī is perhaps a metrical equivalent of bhaṭṭa or an unusual rendering into Tibetan.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Partial matches: Bhatta.

Full-text: Caturthasadbhavopadesha, Ratnavajra.

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