Atayavajra

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Resource ID P71
Date of Birth 11th c. Date of Death 12th c.
External links BDRC P4CZ15615

Name Variants

a ta ya badz+ra
a tha ya badz+ra
a tha na badz+ra
a da ya badz+ra
mi mnyam rdo rje
gnyis med rdo rje?

Teachers

rin 'byung (ratnasambhava W1KG16278)

Students

Khyungpo Neljor
Rahula
lo tsa ba mgar chos bzang (SCv1p717)

Associated works

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Notes

There is a conjecture concerning this master, see Taranatha in phyag drug pa'i chos skor byung tshul.

Note that advayavajra = gnyis med rdo rje and atulyavajra = mi mnyam rdo rje. gnyis med rdo rje is also a name sometimes associated with Maitripa. Taranatha says that adāya (or ataya) means kun tu sbyin pa or mchog tu byams pa (to give completely or to love supremely) but this information could not be verified for ataya nor adāya can be found in sankrit dictionaries.

According to the biography of Khyungpo Neljor, they met at the end of the second trip of Khyungpo Neljor to India. Atayavajra transmitted him: rdo rje rnam 'joms kyi sprul pa'i dkyil 'khor du dbang / rnam 'joms kyi rgyud, lha bcu gcig sgrub thabs, lha lnga sgrub thabs, lha gcig ma'i sgrub thabs.

།དེ་ནས་བླ་མ་ཨ་ཏ་ཡ་བཛྲ་ལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣམ་འཇོམས་ཀྱི་སྤྲུལ་པའི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་དུ་དབང་ཞུས་ནས། རྣམ་འཇོམས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུད་དང་། ལྷ་བཅུ་གཅིག་དང་། ལྷ་ལྔ་དང་། ལྷ་གཅིག་མའི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་རྣམས་ཞུས་ནས།

"I requested the empowerment of the emanated mandala of Vajravidāraṇa from the guru Aṭayavajra and received the tantra of Vidāraṇa, the sādhanas of the eleven deities, the five deities, and the single deity."