Vimalamitra biography of christopher

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Vimalamitra’s biography began to take shape in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, during the formative years of a distinctly emerging Nyingma tradition.

Despite numerous permutations and amendments, the standard story of liberation (rnam thar) was primarily influenced by The Extensive History of the Heart Essence of the Great Perfection (rdzogs pa chen po snying thig gi lo rgyus chen mo).

Vimalamitra biography of christopher

It was this normative biography that was most recently retold in the Fourth Dodrubchen, Tubten Trinle Pelzangpo's (rdo grub chen thub bstan phrin las dpal bzang po, b.1927) book, The Biography of the Mahāpaṇḍita Vimalamitra.

Vimalamitra was reportedly born in western India in a town called Hastisthala.

His father was Sukhacakra and his mother was Ātmaprakāśā. Although the exact name of his monastery is never listed, he is said to have studied in Bodhgayā with his dharma brother, Jñānasūtra (ye shes mdo, d.u.). The two were considere