Jnanasutra

Jnanasutra ( Tib . : ye shes mdo ) was a Buddhist master who lived in India in the seventh / eighth centuries and came from a family from a lower caste.
He first became a student of Vimalamitra , who gave him some Dzogchen teachings. Dzogchen is one of the highest teachings of Vajrayana . Together with Vimalamitra he became a student of the great Dzogchen master Sri Singha . From him Jnanasutra received the full transmission of the Dzogchen teachings ( Great Perfection ), which he had received from Garab Dorje . Since Jnanasutra studied longer with Sri Singha as a student than Vimalamitra, Jnanasutra later also became a teacher of Vimalamitra. Jnanasutra was, besides Padmasambhava , Vimalamitra and Vairocana , who all learned from Sri Singha, the only one who was not involved in the transmission of Dzogchen to Tibet .

Jnanasutra devoted his life to meditation in seclusion and is said to have later attained the so-called rainbow body, a level of realization in which the physical body dissolves into light at the time of death.

Yeshe De

Jnanasutra also denotes Yeshe De ( Tib . : ye shes sde ; 8th – 9th centuries), a Nyingmapa. After Tarthang Tulku (1980), he was a leading 'translator' (Tib: lotsawa ) of the first wave of Sanskrit to Tibetan translation and one of the 25 main students of Padmasambhava . Other spellings: Zhang Yeshe De (Tib .: ཞང་ ཡེ་ ཤེས་ སྡེ, zhang ye shes sde ), Shang Nanam Yeshe De (Tib .: zhang sna nam ye shes sde ).

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Individual evidence

^ Tarthang Tulku (1980). Guide to the Nyingma Edition of the sDe-dge bKa '-'gyur / bsTan-'gur. Vol. 1, California, USA, 1980.

personal data
SURNAME	Jnanasutra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	ye shes mdo (Tibetan)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Buddhist master
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century
DATE OF DEATH	7th century or 8th century

[1] Tarthang Tulku (1980). Guide to the Nyingma Edition of the sDe-dge bKa '-'gyur / bsTan-'gur. Vol. 1, California, USA, 1980.