
Punyakara or Vajrasanapa (dorje denpa in Tibetan) was a master foretold by the Buddha. He preserved the Buddha’s teaching at the site of Buddha’s enlightenment (Bodhgaya), thus we know him as "he of the Vajra Seat". He was the first main teacher that Khyungpo Naljor met in India and he taught him many teachings including the Vinaya code of discipline, root sutras and shastras. Khyungpo Naljor also received from him in Bodhgaya the empowerments in the single great mandala of the Five Tantric Deities (rgyud sde lha nga) based on the Ocean of Gems Explanation Root Tantra.

