Manjushrimitra: The Bodhicittabhavana (The Cultivation of Enlightened Mind) ~ Dzogchen

This is a reading of Manjushrimitra's the Bodhicittabhavana, a
seminal early text of Ati Yoga.Mañjuśrīmitra (d. 740 CE) was an
Indian Buddhist scholar. He became the main student of Garab
Dorje and a teacher of Dzogchen. He was a resident at Nalanda
University where he became a respected Yogācāra scholar and
practitionerAs explained by Yeshe Donden, "Manjushrimitra wrote
the Bodhicittabhavana, in order to explain Ati Yoga to the
Mahayana Buddhists who were in the majority in India at that
time, and in particular to his fellow scholars from Nalanda
University. Experts have determined that the work is written in
the style of a learned Indian scholar, using the philosophy of
post sixth century A.D. Mahayana Buddhism. Meditation on the
Bodhichitta presents the Ati Yoga Semde teachings in a logical,
intellectually cogent way with a high level of scholarly
coherence. In this work, Manjushrimitra emphasized that
intellectualism and logic do not bring about enlightenment and
that “Those who seek the Truth should embrace direct experience
if they hope to acquire realization.” We can see that
Manjushrimitra has gone far beyond the concept of Bodhichitta
found in Buddhist sutra and tantric writings and arrived at an
understanding of Bodhichitta as presented in Ati Yoga (where it
means the essential nature of mind, or awareness)."





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