Buddhamitra is a Sanskrit personal name and may refer to: Buddhamitra (born circa 60) was a Buddhist nun from India. Buddhamitra (Zen Patriarch), the ninth Indian Patriarch of Zen Buddhism Buddhamitra the teacher of Vasubandhu Buddhamitra (grammarian) - an 11th century Buddhist scholar and chief who wrote an important grammatical text called Veera Chozham or Virasoliyam which covers the five branches of Tamil grammar: Ezhuthu (orthography), Sol (etymology), Porul (subject matter), Yaappu (prosody), and Alankaram (rhetoric), synthesizing both Tamil and Sanskrit grammatical traditions.