Kshetravajra

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Resource ID P310
Date of Birth Before 1065 Date of Death Unknown

Name Variants

zhing gi rdo rje
kṣetravajra

Teachers

Maitripa

Students

Khyungpo Neljor

Notes

One of the three "Vajra brothers" (rdo rje mched gsum) close disciples of Maitrīpa. According to the biography of Khyungpo Neljor, they met during the first trip of Khyungpo Neljor to India. Kshetravajra, along with Atulavajra 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 ?."