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'''Mañjuśrīmitra''' ([[floruit|fl.]] 55 CE)<ref>Caveat Lector: dates unsure but Manjushrimitra was a grown man whilst Garab Dorje was described as being little more than a boy.</ref> ({{bo-tw|t=Jampalshenyen, འཇམ་དཔལ་བཤེས་གཉེན་|w=Jam-dpal-bshes-gnyen|lang=yes}}) was an [[India]]n [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] scholar. He became the main student of [[Garab Dorje]] and a teacher of [[Dzogchen]].

==Nomenclature and etymology==
Mañjuśrī-mitra was his ordination-name—before ordination he was named "[[Siddhi]]-garbha" and "[[Samvara]]-garbha" His mother's name was Kuhanā.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Illuminating Sunlight |author=Kunsang, Erik Pema (tr.) |title=Wellsprings of the Great Perfection |publisher=Rangjung Yeshe Publications |location=Hong Kong |year=2006 |page=202 |isbn=978-9627341574}}</ref>

==Birth and early life==
The exact location of Mañjuśrīmitra's birth is unknown. Mañjuśrīmitra, the son of an upper class [[Brahmin]] from a village to the west of [[Bodh Gaya]], was initially schooled at home. Later he was a resident at [[Nalanda University]] where he became a respected [[Yogachara|Yogācāra]] scholar and practitioner.<ref name="Dharma">{{cite web |author=Dharma Fellowship |year=2005 |url=http://www.dharmafellowship.org/biographies/historicalsaints/manjusrimitra.htm |title=Biographies: Majusrimitra Incarnation of Divine Wisdom |work=DharmaFellowship.org |publisher=Dharma Fellowship |accessdate=2020-07-05}}</ref>

==Works==
Many of Mañjuśrīmitra's works deal with a [[Tantra|tantric]] text [[Mañjuśrīnāmasamgīti]].

He was the person who divided the [[Dzogchen]] teachings into three series of [[Semde]], [[Longde (Dzogchen)|Longde]] and [[Manngagde]].

In the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana tradition, Mañjuśrīmitra is held to have transmitted the Dzogchen teachings to [[Sri Singha]]. The "Six Meditation Experiences" (Tibetan: ''Gomnyam Drukpa'') concealed in a jewelled casket was Mañjuśrīmitra's "quintessential testament" to Sri Singha, his principal disciple.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dowman |first=Keith |year=nd |title=Legends of the Dzogchen Masters |url=http://www.keithdowman.net/lineage/dzokchen_masters.htm |work=KeithDowman.net |accessdate=2020-07-05}}</ref>

One of the main works of Mañjuśrīmitra is ''Gold refined from ore''.

Manjushrimitra discusses the [[Mindstream]] (Sanskrit: ''citta-santana'') in the ''Bodhicittabhavana'', a seminal early text of [[Ati Yoga]]: "The mental-continuum (citta-santana) is without boundaries or extension; it is not one thing, nor supported by anything."<ref name="dharmafellowship.org">{{cite web |author=Manjushrimitra |title=Bodhicittabhavana |url=http://www.dharmafellowship.org/library/texts/cultivation-of-enlightened-mind.htm |work=DharmaFellowship.org |publisher=Dharma Fellowship |accessdate=2020-07-05}}</ref> In this work, Manjushrimistra counters and tempers the [[Madhyamaka]] of [[Nagarjuna]] into what developed into the Mindstream Doctrine. Manjushrimitra makes it clear that [[intellectualism]], [[philosophy]] and [[logic]] do not lead to realization and that "Those who seek the Truth must turn to direct yogic experience, should they hope to acquire realization."<ref name="dharmafellowship.org"/>

Vajranatha (2007) contextualises Manjushrimitra and mentions [[Dzogchen]], [[Chittamatra]], [[Yogachara]], [[Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma]], and [[Garab Dorje]]:

{{quote|Moreover, in terms of content, it is quite clear that the early Dzogchen Movement of the eighth and ninth centuries did not teach the Chittamatra doctrine of the Yogacharins, even though it borrowed some of the terminology of the earlier school. But it understood these terms in a different manner than did the Yogacharins. The precepts of Dzogchen are found in the Dzogchen Tantras of Atiyoga and not in the Mahayana Sutras of the Third Turning of the Wheel of the Dharma, although later Lama scholars in Tibet noticed the existence of certain similarities in terminology between Dzogchen and Chittamatra. This may be due to the activities of the scholar Manjusrhimitra who wrote a book on Garab Dorje's teaching from the Yogachara perspective.<ref>{{cite web |author=Vajranatha |year=2007 |title=Dzogchen and Chinese Buddhism |url=https://vajranatha.com/dzogchen-and-chinese-buddhism/ |work=Vajranatha.com |accessdate=2020-07-05}}</ref>}}

==See also==
* [[Padmasambhava]]
* [[Vimalamitra]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book |author=Mañjuśrīmitra |title=Primordial Experience: An Introduction to rDzogs-chen Meditation |translator1=Norbu, Namkhai |translator2=Lipman, Kennard |publisher=Shambhala Publications |location=Boston & London |year=2001 |isbn=978-1570628986}}

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