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1 Garab Dorje .. 2 Manjushrimitra .. 3 Shri Singha .. 5 Vimalamitra .. Vairocana
Jnanasutra was born an outcaste of Chandala family in the land of Kamashila, Eastern India. Part of the duties of the Chandalas were as executioners and thus Jnanasutra's father was called Zhiwailak, Peaceful Hand. Jnanasutra became a scholar monk and traveled to Bodhigaya. There he met Vimalamitra and there Vajrasattva appeared to them both and instructed them to go to the Bodhi Tree Temple in Central Asia to meet Shri Singha. Jnanasutra obeyed Vajrasattva's injunction only after his friend Vimalamitra had returned from Central Asia with glorious news of success. Again Shri Singha taught the three outer cycles of the Secret Teaching instruction, but this time he passed on the texts. After twelve years, Jnanasutra prepared to leave Shri Singha, but his master exclaimed, "But I have given you nothing!" At that, Jnanasutra intuited utterly concept-free awareness, and he stayed and begged the master for the entire transmission. Shri Singha taught him the uttermost secret cycle of Secret Precept instruction and gave him the increasingly unsupported initiatory empowerments. Also many meditational activities like the method of separating samsara from nirvana. Finally, seven days after Shri Singha had left him to visit the King of Khotan, Jnanamitra saw Shri Singha appear in the sky and knew that the master had passed on. As his final testament from his master he received a finger-nail sized casket containing the verses called the "Seven Nails" (Zerbu Dunpa), and instruction to take out the Heart Essence Secret Precept Instruction from the Auspicious Tashi Trigo Temple pillar, and to meditate in the Bhasing cremation ground in India. According to his master's last command, Jnanasutra returned to India to the Bhasing cremation ground and taught the Heart Essence (Nyingthik) teaching on the all-embracing nature of mind to both the worldly and transcendent Dakas and Dakinis. Here he transmitted to his friend - and now disciple - Vimalamitra, the uttermost secret cycle of the Heart Essence and gave him the books of the entire Oral Tradition. Finally he achieved a body of light and vanished leaving nothing behind.
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