Fēnbié-míng púsà 分別明菩薩 (c. 500–570 CE), the Chinese name under which the Indian Mādhyamaka master Bhāviveka (alternatively *Bhavya, *Bhāvaviveka, *Bhāviviveka) appears in Prabhākaramitra’s Tang-period translation of the Prajñāpradīpa (KR6m0004 T1566). The Chinese rendering glosses the Sanskrit name component-by-component: bhā- “brilliance” → 明, -viveka “discrimination” → 分別. In Xuánzàng’s translation idiom of a generation later the same Bhāviveka is rendered 清辯 (see 清辯菩薩 for the Xuánzàng-school name and biographical entry); the catalog of Kanripo treats 分別明菩薩 and 清辯菩薩 as separate persons, but they refer to the same Indic master.
Bhāviveka was the principal Svātantrika-Mādhyamaka master of the sixth century, founder of the svatantra method of supplementing prasaṅga refutation with positive (independent) Buddhist inferences against tīrthika opponents. His principal works are the Prajñāpradīpa (preserved in Chinese as T1566 and Tibetan as Tōh. 3853), the Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā with its auto-commentary the Tarkajvālā (Tibetan only), and the Madhyamakaratnapradīpa (uncertain attribution). He is the principal Buddhist polemicist against Sāṃkhya, Vaiśeṣika, and the rival Buddhapālita stream of Mādhyamaka, and the figure through whom Buddhist Mādhyamaka entered into systematic engagement with Indic pramāṇa-theory.
Works in the Kanripo corpus (under this name): KR6m0004 Bōrě-dēng lùn shì 般若燈論釋 (T1566, Prajñāpradīpa).