THE ILLUMINATOR

Tibetan-English
Encyclopaedic Dictionary

དགའ་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་
Transliteration: dga' rab rdo rje
<name> "Garab Dorje". An Indian man who is the first human of the Great Completion lineage in this era. Some English texts say that his Indian name was "pramodavajra" and some "prehevajra". However, these are names derived from the Tibetan name. In fact, his Indian name is unknown. He passed away 540 years after the Buddha's nirvāṇa. His main disciple was Mañjuśhrīmitra.