Atulavajra

Resource ID	P23
Date of Birth	Before 1065	Date of Death	Unknown
External links	BDRC P00KG03164

Name Variants

a tu la badz+ra
atulyavajra (a tu lya badz+ra)
a tu la dwa sa badz+ra
paN+Di ta a thu la badz+ra
a du la badz+ra
mi mnyam rdo rje

Teachers

Maitripa

Students

Khyungpo Neljor
mnyam pa'i rdo rje (SCv5p541)

Notes

One of the three "Vajra brothers" (rdo rje mched gsum) close disciples of Maitrīpa. According to the biography of Khyungpo Neljor, they met (under the name paN+Di ta a thu la badz+ra) in Nepal before the first trip of Khyungpo Neljor to India. Then traveled together in India and eventually Atulavajra (named then mi mnyam rdo rje, same person?), along with Kshetravajra and Ratnavajra, transmited him: gshin rje gshed kyi dbang / gshin rje gshed dmar nag gi rgyud sgrub thabs dang ra sgrol. They also met during the third trip of Khyungpo Neljor to India.

དེ་ནས་ཆུ་བོ་གངྒཱའི་འགྲམ་དུ་རྒྱལ་བ་མཻ་ཏྲི་པའི་སློབ་མ། ཞིང་གི་རྡོ་རྗེ། མི་མཉམ་རྡོ་རྗེ། རིན་ཆེན་རྡོ་རྗེ་སྟེ་རྡོ་རྗེ་མཆེད་གསུམ་གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་བསྒྲུབས་ནས་ལས་སྦྱོར་བྱེད་པ་དང་མཇལ་ནས། གསེར་སྲང་རེ་རེ་ཕུལ་ནས་གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་ཀྱི་དབང་ཞུས། གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་དམར་ནག་གི་རྒྱུད་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་དང་། ར་སྒྲོལ་ཞུས་ནས།

"On the banks of the Ganges, I met the Three Vajra-Brothers, disciples of the conqueror Maitrīpa: Kṣetravajra, Atulyavajra and Ratnavajra. They were then practicing Yamāntaka and were performing the rituals. I offered each one of them gold and requested the Yamāntaka empowerment, the Red and Black Yamāntaka Tantras (raktayamāritantra, Toh 474 or Toh 475 or Toh 478, and kṛṣnayamāritantra, Toh 467 or Toh 469) and their sadhanas, and the ?."

From The Biographies of Rechungpa: The Evolution of a Tibetan Hagiography: "Atulyavajra a.k.a Atulyadāsa, Atulyadāsavajra, Atulyapāda, Adulopa and Aduladhasa, was one of the seven 'middle-ranking' pupils of Maitripa, as was Tipupa. He was one of the four most famous masters in Nepal during the 1080s and assisted on the translation of eight canonical texts, three of them with Ngok Loden Sherab (rngog blo ldan shes rab, 1059-1109) who came to Nepal in the mid 1090s and one with Bari Rinchen Drak (ba ri rin chen grags, 1040-1112)".

From The Life of Marpa the Translator: Seeing Accomplishes All: "At Mejadvīpa, there was a guru named Atulyavajra who was one of the dharma brothers gathered around the Master Maitrīpa. He also was an ācārya who had once given teaching in kriyā yoga to Lord Marpa himself".