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'''Garab Dorje''' (Skt. Prahevajra/Pramodavajra/Surativajra<ref>Garab Dorje is best known by the Tibetan version of his name. Various attempts have been made to reconstruct his name in Sanskrit, usually giving it as Prahevajra, but also as Pramodavajra or Surativajra.</ref>; Tib. དགའ་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་, [[Wyl.]] ''dga' rab rdo rje'') — the lineage of [[Dzogchen]], unbroken to the present day, is traced from the [[dharmakaya]] [[Samantabhadra]] (‘Kuntuzangpo’ in Tibetan) to the [[sambhogakaya]], represented by the [[five buddha families]] and [[Vajrasattva]], and then to the first human master Garab Dorje. It then passed to [[Mañjushrimitra]]. At the time of his [[parinirvana]], Garab Dorje ascended into the sky and dissolved into rainbow light. At this, Mañjushrimitra cried out in despair and distress, and made a very beautiful plea: “What will become of us now that you are passing away? You are the light of the world…” 

Whereupon Garab Dorje was moved, and his hand reappeared, in which was a small golden casket, the size of a thumbnail, containing the teaching of ''[[Hitting the Essence in Three Words]]'', which he let fall into the hand of Mañjushrimitra. As soon as he received it, his mind became the same as the wisdom mind of his master Garab Dorje. 

==Famous Quotes==
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:Mind’s nature is and always has been [[Buddha]]. 
:It has neither birth nor cessation, like space.
:When you realize the real meaning of the equal nature of all things,
:To remain in that state without searching<ref>Zenkar Rinpoche says that the text has a variant reading, མ་བརྩོལ་ meaning “without effort.” However both mean without mental fabrication or manipulation.</ref> is meditation. 

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:<big>༈ སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ཡེ་ནས་བུདྡྷ་སྟེ༔<br>
:སེམས་ལ་སྐྱེ་འགག་མེད་པ་ནམ་མཁའ་འདྲ༔<br>
:ཆོས་ཀུན་མཉམ་ཉིད་ཡང་དག་དོན་རྟོགས་ནས༔<br>
:དེ་ཉིད་མ་བཙལ་བཞག་ན་སྒོམ་པ་ཡིན༔<br></big>
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===Three Statements===
{{:Quotations: Garab Dorje, Three Statements that Hit the Crucial Point}}
===Rigpa & Dharmakaya===
{{:Quotations: Garab Dorje, Rigpa recognized as dharmakaya}}

==Notes==
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==Further Reading==
*Hanson-Barber, A. W. "The Identification of dGa' rab rdo rje" in ''Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies'', Vol. 9 1986 No. 2, pages 55-64
*Reynolds, John. ''Golden Letters'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1996), Part Two, 'The Life of Garab Dorje and Guru Sadhana'.

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