Garab Dorje (or Garap Dorje, Tibetan: དགའ་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེ Wylie: dga’ rab rdo rje, Sanskrit: Prahevajra or Pramodavajra) was the semi-historical first human to receive direct transmission teachings from the deity Vajrasattva, this becoming the root the teacher of the Ati Yoga (Tib. Dzogchen) or Great Perfection teachings according to the tradition of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. These teachings he passed to Manjushrimitra and Padmasambhava. He also is held to have received the empowerment and transmission of the Mahayoga teachings of the Secret Matrix Tradition (Guhyagarbhatantra) from Mahasiddha Kukuraja.Garab Dorje (or Garap Dorje, Tibetan: དགའ་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེ Wylie: dga’ rab rdo rje, Sanskrit: Prahevajra or Pramodavajra) was the semi-historical first human to receive direct transmission teachings from the deity Vajrasattva, this becoming the root the teacher of the Ati Yoga (Tib. Dzogchen) or Great Perfection teachings according to the tradition of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. These teachings he passed to Manjushrimitra and Padmasambhava. He also is held to have received the empowerment and transmission of the Mahayoga teachings of the Secret Matrix Tradition (Guhyagarbhatantra) from Mahasiddha Kukuraja....more