Atayavajra

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 (note in Tengyur)
gnyis med rdo rje?
utayavajra?

Teachers

rin 'byung (ratnasambhava W1KG16278)

Students

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

Associated works

Associated to work

• Byin gyis brlabs pa nag po chen po zhal gsum phyag drug pa khrag 'thung gi sgrub pa
• Dpal nag po chen po byin brlabs can gyi sgrub pa'i thabs
• Gu na a ka ra dang a tha na badz+ra gnyis las brgyud pa'i lha bzhi dril sgrub kyi lam rim mkha' spyod ma'i sgrub thabs mngon rtogs
• Mgon po zhal gsum phyag drug pa'i sgrub thabs bsdus pa bram ze chen pos mdzad pa
• Rnal 'byor ma'i sgrub thabs a tha na badz+ra gyis mdzad pa

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.

One of the three "Vajra brothers" (rdo rje mched gsum) close disciples of Maitrīpa. 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. They also met during the third trip of Khyungpo Neljor to India.

།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 along with the sādhanas for the eleven deities, the five deities, and the single deity."