Mañjuśrīmitra

Manjushrimitra (also: Jampelshenyen; Tib jam dpal bshes gnyen ) was a great scholar of the Mahayana Buddhist monastic university of Nalanda. He lived about the 5./6.Jahrhundert.

Philosophical debate with Garab Dorje

Manjushrimitra is known that he. Than great scholar who had studied all the branches of the Buddhist doctrine and was considered one of the most knowledgeable Buddhist leaders of his time, was struck by a seven- year-old boy named Garab Dorje in the philosophical debate At this age, Garab Dorje According to tradition, the Buddhist scholars of the Kingdom of Oddiyana have striking with its superior knowledge and his profound wisdom in such a way that the great Mahayana scholar Manjushrimitra specially traveled from the University of Nalanda in India after Oddyana to the to beat boys in a debate on Buddhist philosophy. Manjushrimitra could in this debate, in which Garab Dorje compatibility with and superiority of the teachings of Dzogchen over the classical Mahayana teachings pointed out, can not find a starting point to refute Garab Dorje's teaching.

Garab Dorje student of

Manjusrimitra recognized the particular importance of the doctrine set forth by Garab Dorje and realized that only an extraordinary creature was in a position to transfer such a doctrine. Thereupon he regretted having Garab Dorje challenged, and asked the boy to be allowed to become his pupil. Garab Dorje put his teachings of Dzogchen is fully commissioned and Manjusrimitra a treatise on the debate to customize. Although the exact data Garab Dorje's life and Manjusrimitras are unknown, can this still standing today font, if one assumes their style and the mentioned therein philosophical perspectives, about the 5/6 Century AD date. Furthermore turned Manjushrimitra all teachings that Garab Dorje transmitted, in a three-part system (the three series of Dzogchen: Semde, Longde and Manngagde ) together. The main Garab Dorje students it was Manjusrimitra, continued the Garab Dorje initiated by Dzogchen lineage and transferred to Sri Singha. Manjusrimitra was also an important link in the transmission of Mahayoga cycle on Yamantaka from India to Tibet.

Dzogchen in Tibet

The systematized by Manjushrimitra Dzogchen transmission was in the 8th century AD. of Padmasambhava and Vairocana Vimalamitra, all disciples of Sri Singha, established with the introduction of Buddhism in Tibet. From this time the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism can be seen, is considered the highest and most important tantric teaching in Dzogchen. In Tibet, already existed before a independent of the transmission of Garab Dorje, Dzogchen teachings in the Bon tradition, which is to go back to the teacher Shenrab Miwoche. Even if you historically can assign these two religious traditions the teachings of Dzogchen, transcend the context of religious concepts because of their immediacy.