Vanaratna
At Śrī Dhānya-kaṭaka mahā-caitya he met, in a vision, with Māhasiddha Shavaripa and received from him his unique transmission of the Sadaṅga-yoga, the Six-limbed Yoga of the Kālacakra tradition. Vanaratna eventually beheld a vision of Avalokiteśvara, who advised him to go to Tibet.
Vanaratna visited Tibet in 1426, 1433 and 1453 and spread the Kālacakra lineage and instructions of Paṇḍita Vibhūti-candra there, especially the Sadaṅga-yoga according to Anupamarakṣita, and many other teachings. He also assisted in the translation of many texts and treatises. Such famous Tibetan masters as Gö Lotsawa Shönnu Pal (1392-1481) and Thrimkang Lotsawa Sönam Gyatso (1424-1482) were his close students. He also spent time in Bhutan, where even nowadays there is a temple, near Paro, with a sacred statue of his and a rock that bears his name in old Bengali script. Vanaratna spent his final years in the Gopicandra Vihara in Patan/Kathmandu, now known as Pinthu Bahal, and passed away there. (Source: RY wiki)
2 texts associated with this figure[edit]
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| Text | People | Deity/Cycle/Genre | Total pages | Folios |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| མ་ཧཱ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ནགས་ཀྱི་རིན་ཆེན་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་ལྷའི་དབྱངས། (ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 2, 625-632.) |
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse chos kyi blo gros Associated ppl: Vanaratna |
Genre: Verses of Praise - bstod pa | 8 | 1a1 - 4b6 |
| ནགས་རིན་ལུགས་ཀྱི་སེང་གདོང་དམར་མོའི་སྒྲུབ་རྗེས་ལས་ཚོགས་དང་བཅས་པ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་དགྱེས་པའི་དབྱངས་སྙན། (མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 8, 373-393.) |
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po Associated ppl: Vanaratna |
Deity: seng gdong ma Cycle: paN chen nags rin lugs seng gdong dmar mo Genre: Permission to Invoke (anujñā) - rjes gnang, Sadhanas - Evocation Ritual - sgrub thabs, Activity Practices - las tshogs |
21 | 1a - 11a5 |
