Mandelbaum, Arthur (August 2007). "Sokpo Pelgyi Yeshe". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters . Retrieved 10 August 2013. In modern Tibetan Buddhism, Padmasambhava is considered to be a Buddha that was foretold by Buddha Shakyamuni. [2] According to traditional hagiographies, his students include the great female masters Yeshe Tsogyal and Mandarava. [5] The contemporary Nyingma school considers Padmasambhava to be a founding figure. [12] [4] The Nyingma school also traditionally holds that its Dzogchen lineage has its origins in Garab Dorje through a direct transmission to Padmasambhava. [13] In addition, there is evidence that alongside Padmasambhava, Mandarava practiced the Hayagriva Mechar sadhana cycle which now comprises part of the Great Play of the Quintessential Lotus and the Treasury of One Thousand Essential Instructions of Tantra on the Union of Hayagriva and Vajravarahi. Later, during a meeting between Mandarava and Yeshe Tsogyal, Mandarava taught Yeshe Tsogyal the "thirteen pith instructions on Hayagriva". [20]

Gautama, Mahaprajapati (n.d.). "Women Buddhas: A Short List of Female Saints, Teachers and Practitioners in Tibetan Buddhism". Dharmafellowship.org. The Seven Line Prayer to Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) is a well-known prayer that is recited by many Tibetans daily and is said to contain the most sacred and important teachings of Dzogchen: [46] ཧཱུྃ༔ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྱི་ནུབ་བྱང་མཚམས༔ པདྨ་གེ་སར་སྡོང་པོ་ལ༔ ཡ་མཚན་མཆོག་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྙེས༔ པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞེས་སུ་གྲགས༔ འཁོར་དུ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མང་པོས་བསྐོར༔ ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་བདག་བསྒྲུབ་ཀྱི༔ བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཕྱིར་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ༔ གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔ [47] [note 5] Dre Gyelwei Lodro, Gyalwe Lodro of Dré ( Tibetan: རྒྱལ་བའི་བློ་གྲོས, Wylie: rgyal ba'i blo gros) [61]

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Padmasambhava had several consorts, and practiced secret sexual tantric rites with them. One of them was Princess Sakya Devi from Nepal. Together they gained complete Great Enlightenment, we are told. Padmasambhava is known for hiding religious treasures in lakes, caves, fields and forests, too. According to Tibetan tradition, the Tibetan Book of the Dead was among these hidden treasures. In Tibetan Buddhism, the teachings of Padmasambava are said to include an oral lineage ( kama), and a lineage of the hidden treasure texts ( termas). [14] Tibetan Buddhism holds that Padmasambhava's termas are discovered by fortunate beings and tertöns (treasure finders) when conditions are ripe for their reception. [15] Padmasambhava is said to appear to tertöns in visionary encounters, and his form is visualized during guru yoga practice, particularly in the Nyingma school. Padmasambhava is widely venerated by Buddhists in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, the Himalayan states of India, and in countries around the world. [6] History [ edit ]

van Schaik, Sam; Iwao, Kazushi (2009). "Fragments of the Testament of Ba from Dunhuang". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 128 (3): 477–487. ISSN 0003-0279.Yeshe Tsogyal (2009). Padmasambhava Comes to Tibet. Translated by Tarthang Tulku. Dharma Publishing. Guru Nyima Ozer (Wylie: gu ru nyi-ma 'od-zer, Skrt: Guru Suryabhasa or Sūryaraśmi [39]), meaning "Ray of Sun", the Sunray Yogi, semi-wrathful, manifests in India simultaneously with Guru Pema Gyalpo, often portrayed as a crazy wisdom wandering yogi, numerous simultaneous emanations, illuminates the darkness of the mind through the insight of Dzogchen. He is shown seated on a lotus with left leg bent and with a golden-red complexion, semi-wrathful with slightly bulging eyes, long hair with bone ornaments, moustache and beard, bare-chested with a tiger-skin skirt, right hand holds a khatvanga and left hand is in a mudra, interacting with the sun. In this world of ours, Jambudvīpa, the Guru is generally known as just one nirmāṇakāya who tames beings, but according to the different capacities and giftedness of people he is perceived in multiple ways. Most Indian sources, along with the Oral Transmission of Kīla, [5] explain that he was born as the son of a king or minister in Uḍḍiyāna, whereas t

One of the earliest chronicle sources for Padmasambhava as a historical figure is the Testament of Ba ( Dba' bzhed, c. 9th–12th centuries), which records the founding of Samye Monastery under the reign of King Trisong Detsen (r. 755–797/804). [16]. [4] Other early manuscripts from Dunhuang also mention a tantric master associated with kilaya rituals named Padmasambhava who tames demons, though they do not associate this figure with Trisong Detsen. [17] [4] Padmasambhava; Kunsang, Erik Pema, tr. (1994). Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples. Boudhanath, Arhus & Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications. ISBN 962-7341-20-7. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Tm: Evans-Wentz, Walter Y., ed. Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa. 2nd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1969. ⍽▢⍽ The book gives splendid insight into Tibetan Buddhism long ago through a remarkable and well written life story. Milarepa (c. 1052 – c. 1135), one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets, showed how extreme poverty in a cave may not be total deprivation, thanks to steadfast perseverance through long years and hardships. He found he had been stripped of a great many magnificent illusions thereby. His best known disciples are probably Rechung and Gampopa.

Hagiographies of Padmasambhava such as The Copper Palace, depict Padmasambhava being born as an eight-year-old child appearing in a lotus blossom floating in Lake Dhanakosha surrounded by a host of dakinis, in the kingdom of Oddiyana. [4] [25] [note 1] Padmasambhava wears a white vajra undergarment. On top of this, in layers, a red robe, a dark blue mantrayana tunic, a red monastic shawl decorated with a golden flower pattern, and a maroon cloak of silk brocade. [40] Also, he wears a silk cloak, Dharma robes and gown. [42] He is wearing the dark blue gown of a mantra practitioner, the red and yellow shawl of a monk, the maroon cloak of a king, and the red robe and secret white garments of a bodhisattva. [41] Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness: An Introduction to the Nature of One's Own Mind from The Profound Teaching of Self-Liberation in the Primordial State of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities. A terma text of Guru Padmasambhava Expounding the View of Dzogchen, Rediscovered by Rigdzin Karma Lingpa. 2nd ed. Tr. John Myrdhin Reynolds. Itacha, NY: Snow Lion / Shambhala, 2010. ⍽▢⍽ John Reynolds is a good translator/editor/author in the field of Tibetan Dzogchen, although perhaps a little bit biased.