The author of this work is very likely ཐེག་ཆེན་ཆོས་རྗེ་ཀུན་དགའ་བཀྲ་ཤིས། (1349–1425), who acc. to his biographies studied the Pramāṇavārttika under the master བློ་གྲོས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སེང་གེ, and who is reported to have authored a རྣམ་འགྲེལ་གྱི་ཊཱིཀཀ; see theg chen chos rje'i rnam thar II [2017] (p. 501). Another teacher of his was his father ཏ་དབེན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན། (1331/32–1359).
BDRC ཨང་རྟགས།: W1PD153536
tiblib ཨང་རྟགས།: DLP2059