Naté Ghandapa

Resource ID	P452
Date of Birth	10~11th c.?	Date of Death	Unknown

Name Variants

gandha?
na te g+han+da pa
na te g+han Da ba
na te g+han dha ba
na te g+ha na dha pa
na te ka ra (in deb ther sngon po)

Students

Khyungpo Neljor

Notes

According to the biography of Khyungpo Neljor, they met in Vikramapuri during the second trip of Khyungpo Neljor to India. Ghandapa transmitted him: ye shes grub pa / dbang rin po che 'khor lo'i rgyud / sku gsung thugs kyi rgyud / ye shes dgongs pa bla na med pa.

།རྗེ་གྷནྡྲ་པ་ལ། ཤར་བི་ཀྲ་མ་པུ་རི་ན་བཞུགས་པ་ལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་གྲུབ་པ་དང་དབང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་འཁོར་ལོ་དང་། སྐུ་གསུང་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུད་དང་། ཡེ་ཤེས་དགོངས་པ་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ལ་སོགས་པའི་རྒྱུད་གདམས་ངག་མང་དུ་ཞུས་སོ།

"From Lord Naté Ghandapa, who was residing in Vikramapuri (bi kra ma pu ri, bhi tra ma pu ri, bhi Ta ma la pu ri, bhri kA ma la su ri, probably Bikrampur, administrative centre of the Chandra kingdom during the 10th c.), in the east, I received: the Accomplishment of Wisdom (part of the Seven Sections of Accomplishment), the precious wheel of empowerment (MW21939), the Tantra of Body, Speech, and Mind (kāyavākcittatantra,Toh 388), the Unsurpassable Intention of Wisdom (ye shes dgongs pa bla na med pa'i rgyud cited in lde'u chos 'byung) and so forth, as well as numerous tantras and oral instructions."