Manjushrimitra
འཇམ་དཔལ་བཤེས་གཉེན།
'jam dpal bshes gnyen
Short Biography
Manjushrimitra, Jampal Shenyen An Indian master in the Dzogchen lineage and the chief disciple of Garab Dorje. In his role as a master in the lineage of the Sadhana Section of Mahayoga, he received the transmission of Yamantaka in the form of the Secret Wrathful Manjushri Tantra and other texts. Manjushrimitra was born in the Magadha district of India and was soon an adept in the general sciences and the conventional topics of Buddhism. After having become the most eminent among five hundred panditas, he received many teachings and empowerments from Garab Dorje, Lalitavajra, and other masters and reached the unified level of enlightenment, indivisible from Manjushri. Yamantaka appeared to him in person, conferred empowerment and transmitted the tantras and oral instructions. Among his chief recipients of this teaching were Hungkara, Padmasambhava, and Hanatela.
There seem to have been several masters with this name, but Guru Tashi Tobgyal in his Ocean of Wondrous Sayings to Delight the Learned Ones views them as being magical emanations of the same master. See also Sadhana Section.
[RY] (From the glossary to The Lotus-Born, the biography of Padmasambhava.)
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- Jampal Shenyen. Skt: Manjushrimitra (the first). A great Indian pandita of the Dzogchen lineage who was the chief disciple of Garab Dorje and later the guru of Shri Singha and Guru Padmasambhava. He was one of the eight Vidyadharas of India. He passed away 830 years after the Buddha's nirvana. Lit Gentle Splendor Spiritual Friend. [RY]
- manjusrimitra, student of dga' rab rdo rje, teacher of shrisingha, author of books on Manjusrinamasamgiti, 2nd Manjusrimitra 125 years later who taught Padmasambhava [JV]
- Manjusrimitra [RY]
- Manjushri-mitra [I, [disciple of Garab Dorje, guru of Shri Singha, died 830 y after the buddha's nirvana, Nyingma vidyadhara connected w 1 of the 8 logos.] [IW]
- Manjushri-mitra [IW]
- Dudjom Rinpoche (1991). The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History. Translated by Gyurme Dorje and Matthew Kapstein. Boston: Wisdom Publications.
- Thondup, Tulku. Masters of Meditation and Miracles. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1996.
- Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorjé. A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems. Junction City: Padma Publishing, 2005.
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- One of the Twenty-One Indian Panditas (rgya gar gyi mkhas pa nyi shu rtsa gcig) [RY]