Hùfǎ púsà 護法菩薩 (Dharmapāla, c. 530–561 CE), Indian Yogācāra master of the post-Vasubandhu generation, abbot of Nālandā in the mid-sixth century. Per the DàTáng xīyù jì 大唐西域記 (T2087, by Xuánzàng) and Tibetan parallels, Dharmapāla was a prince of southern India who became a monk and rose to be the principal Yogācāra teacher of his generation, dying young (at thirty-two, by Xuánzàng’s account). He was the principal teacher of Śīlabhadra 戒賢 (529–645), Xuánzàng’s own preceptor at Nālandā.
Dharmapāla is the principal author of the Vijñaptimātratāsiddhi commentarial tradition that was synthesised by Xuánzàng into the KR6n0005 Chéng wéi-shì lùn 成唯識論 (T1585) — the foundational text of the Chinese Fǎ-xiàng / Cí’ēn 慈恩 school. He is also the author of major commentaries on Āryadeva’s Catuḥśataka (the Catuḥśatakaśāstravṛtti, preserved in Chinese as the second half of KR6m0015 Dàshèng guǎng-bǎi lùn shì-lùn T1571) and on Vasubandhu’s Vijñānavāda corpus. Several other works are attributed to him in the Chinese canon, including Yogācāra commentaries on the Mahāvibhāṣā, Abhidharmakośa, and Triṃśikā.
His role as the foremost commentator on Āryadeva’s Catuḥśataka is doctrinally significant: it represents the late-Indic yogācāra-madhyamaka synthesis at Nālandā, where Yogācāra masters routinely wrote on Mādhyamaka śāstras and vice versa.
Works in the Kanripo corpus (under this name): commentary in KR6m0015 Dàshèng guǎngbǎi lùn shìlùn 大乘廣百論釋論 (T1571); also major Yogācāra commentaries in KR6n.