Suryagarbha

Resource ID	P440
Date of Birth	10~11th c.?	Date of Death	Unknown

Name Variants

sūryagarbha
grub thob nyi ma'i snying po

Teachers

Kukuripa

Students

Khyungpo Neljor

Notes

According to the biography of Khyungpo Neljor, they met in charnel ground of Jalandhara during the second trip of Khyungpo Neljor to India. Suryagarbha transmitted him: ku ku ri pa'i chos bdun / rje btsun ma'i sgrub thabs.

ཀུ་ཀུ་རི་པའི་སློབ་མ་གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཉི་མའི་སྙིང་པོ་ཛ་ལནྡྷ་རའི་དུར་ཁྲོད་དུ་བཞུགས་པ་ལ། ཀུ་ཀུ་རི་པའི་ཆོས་བདུན་དང་། རྗེ་བཙུན་མའི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་མང་དུ་ཞུས།

"From the siddha Sūryagarbha, a student of Kukuripa, who lived in the charnel ground of Jalandhara (dza lan+d+ha ra dur khrod, dzA lan dha ra, dza la dha ra, dznya la dha ra, 'bar ba 'dzin, could be located in the north of Bihar state. Could be one of the twenty-four holy places associated with the origin story of Heruka Chakrasamvara), I received the Seven dharmas of Kukuripa and many sādhanas of the Venerable lady."
Concerning the Seven dharmas of Kukuripa, here's a list of possible works: 1. vajrasattvasādhana, 2. sarvaparicchedana, 3. tattvabhāvanānusāriyogabhāvanopadeśa, 4. mohataraṇakalpa, 5. śrīmahāmāyāmaṇḍaladevastotra, 6. mahāmāyātantrānusāriṇīherukasādhanopāyikā, 7. mahāmāyāsādhanamaṇḍalavidhi.

Lineage: Kukuripa > Suryagarbha > Khyungpo Neljor: SCv1p59