nam mkha'i snying po

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Namkhai Nyingpo. One of the 25 disciples of Guru Rinpoche. Born in Lower Nyal, he was one of the first Tibetans to take ordination. An adept translator, he journeyed to India where he received transmission from Hungkara and attained the body of nondual wisdom. Namkhai Nyingpo is also counted among the twenty-five disciples of Guru Rinpoche; the receiver of the transmission of Vishuddha Mind through the practice of which he was able to fly on the rays of the sun. When meditating in Splendid Long Cave of Kharchu at Lhodrak he had visions of numerous yidams and attained the vidyadhara level of Mahamudra. Finally, he departed for celestial realms without leaving a corpse behind [RY]

Namkhai Nyingpo, one of Guru Padmasambhava's twenty-five main disciples [RY]

Akashagarbha (yellow/ southwest); Essence of Space, n. of bodhisattva, n. of one of the 25 disciples of Padmasambhava in Tibet. Namkhai Nyingpo. one of the first seven monks in Tibet. the bodhisattva Akashagarbha, essence of space, the translator Namkhai nyingpo [RY]

1) bodhisattva Aksagarbha; 2) 1 of the 25 disciples of Padmasambhava in T; 3) 1 of the 1st 7 monks in T; 4) the tr Namkhainyingpo; 5) essence of space [IW]

1) bodhisattva Aksagarbha [nye sras brgyad gras [IW]

akasagarbha sutra, a dhyani bodhisattva, essence of the sky [JV]