Jnanasutra was born to a low caste family in Kamashila, eastern India. As he achieved the rainbow body, his final testament descended into the hands of his disciple, Jnanasutra. After this Shri Singha lived in the Siljin charnel grounds, meditating and giving teachings. Upon his return to China, he hid the first three cycles of teaching near the Bodhi Tree Temple in China.įollowing the instructions of a dakini, he concealed the Nyingtik (Heart Essence) cycle in a pillar in the Tashi Trigo Temple. Shri Singha was also able to withdraw the texts Manjushrimitra had hidden in the rock near Bodhgaya. When Manjushrimitra achieved the rainbow body, Shri Singha received his master’s final testament, and meditating with those instructions he realized the essential meaning of Dzogchen. He met Manjushrimitra there and studied and practiced with him for 25 years. Before departing for India Shri Singha, he engaged in a practice that resulted in achievement of miraculous powers, allowing him to travel to Sosadvipa very quickly. Avalokiteshvara appeared to him again and repeated his advice. He then took ordination and maintained monastic discipline for 30 years. To prepare for his pilgrimage to India, Shri Singha studied different tantras for seven years on the sacred mountain of Wu T’ai Chan. In a vision, Avalokiteshvara instructed him to go to the Sosadvipa charnel ground in India where he would attain enlightenment. Shri Singha was born in China and was a great scholar of worldly sciences. He meditated for many more years at Sosadvipa, a charnel ground west of Bodhgaya, and transmitted the Dzogchen teachings to Shri Singha. He classified the 6,400,000 verses of the Dzogchen teachings into categories, recorded the oral transmissions he had received and concealed them in a boulder marked with a crossed dorje. Just by seeing it he attained realization equal to that of his teacher. Inside Manjushrimitra found the Three Words That Penetrate the Essence written on a leaf. With the sound of a thunderclap a tiny golden casket descended from the light into the palm of his hand. When Garab Dorje attained nirvana, Manjushrimitra beheld him in the sky in a mass of light. He met Garab Dorje there and studied the Dharma with him for 75 years. In a vision Manjushri instructed him to travel to the Sitavana charnel ground in India if he wished to reach enlightenment during his lifetime. Manjushrimitra was born into a Brahman family to the west of Bodhgaya in India and became a great scholar. Thereafter, the Buddha Shakyamuni manifested in two wisdom emanations. At the age of eighty-two, Buddha Shakyamuni passed into nirvana. For the next forty-seven years, the Buddha’s teachings flourished throughout the universe and as a result many sentient beings attained enlightenment. At the age of thirty-five, Shakyamuni attained Buddhahood in Bodhgaya, India, and began to teach the dharma in this world. our supreme Dharma teacher, Buddha Shakyamuni, was born in southern Nepal, which in ancient times was northern India. As a Bodhisattva, Vajrasattva saw that all beings suffered because of their negative karma and made a vow to free all beings of this karma. In this way negativities and obscurations are cleansed allowing Buddha nature to manifest. As a meditational deity Vajrasattva is visualized as an expression of mind’s pure essence. Vajrasattva is the manifestation of the purity of body, speech, and mind of all the Buddhas. Samanta means, “universally extending.” Bhadra means “great virtue.” Samantabhadra means to extend such great compassion that every sentient being is benefited and to practice so extensively and profoundly that all virtue is perfected. Their union represents the fusion of wisdom and compassion, the ultimate indivisibility of samsara and nirvana and the potential for Buddhahood inherent in all sentient beings. He is embracing Samantabhadri, the female primordial Buddha. Samantabhadra, the primordial Buddha, is pure omniscience, the essence of the enlightened mind of all the Buddhas.
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