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]

Mandelbaum, Arthur (August 2007). "Sokpo Pelgyi Yeshe". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters . Retrieved 10 August 2013. Guru Pema Gyalpo (Wylie: gu ru pad ma rgyal-po, Skt: Guru Padmarāja) of Oddiyana, meaning "Lotus King", king of the Tripitaka (the Three Collections of Scripture), manifests as a child four years after the Mahaparinirvana of Buddha Shakyamuni, as predicted by the Buddha. He is shown with a redish pink complexion and semi-wrathful, seated on a lotus and wearing yellow-orange robes, a small damaru in his right hand and a mirror and hook in his left hand, with a top-knot wrapped in white and streaming with red silk.

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Kazi, Jigme N. (2020). Sons of Sikkim: The Rise and Fall of the Namgyal Dynasty of Sikkim. Notion Press. ISBN 978-1-64805-981-0. Padmasambhava (1994). Schmidt, Marcia Binder (ed.). Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples. Rangjung Yeshe Publications. ISBN 978-9627341208.

Dorje, Gyurme (August 2008). "Lasum Gyelwa Jangchub". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters . Retrieved 10 August 2013.Keeping probable, translated widening and narrowing-down in mind, it might help to read both. "Each text, despite its flaws, is good," one reader remarks. If it does not help or does not help much, the good thing is to get liberated and then see. As Padmasambhava says in the sixth part of the first chapter, there are many names for a state beyond classifications. The text, in Reynold's translation: There are numerous Terma cycles which are believed to contain teachings of Padmasambhava. [51] According to Tibetan tradition, the Bardo Thodol (commonly referred to as the Tibetan Book of the Dead) was among these hidden treasures, subsequently discovered by a Tibetan tertön, Karma Lingpa (1326–1386). Drakpa, Chökyi (17 March 2022). "A Torch for the Path to Omniscience: A Word by Word Commentary on the Text of the Longchen Nyingtik Preliminary Practices". Lotsawa House . Retrieved 20 December 2022.

In his right hand, he holds a five-pronged vajra at his heart. [40] [41] [42] His left hand rests in the gesture of equanimity, [40] In his left hand he holds a skull-cup brimming with nectar, containing the vase of longevity that is also filled with the nectar of deathless wisdom [40] [41] and ornamented on top by a wish-fulfilling tree. [42] The higher forms of yoga, yoga-meditation, contain meditation methods. Make sure you take to the best ones available, and the best suited for you too. I should recommend ◦TM, a way of mantra-meditation. Why? It is ◦"best in some tests", and there is ◦much research into TM too. There is a description of the meeting of Yeshe Tsogyal with Mandarava to exchange spiritual teachings in Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel. [21] Emanations and reincarnations [ edit ] Niguma, 11th century dakini and co-founder of the Shangpa Kagyu school of Vajrayana Buddhism Many of the students gathered around Padmasambhava became advanced Vajrayana tantric practitioners, and became enlightened. They also founded and propagated the Nyingma school. The most prominent of these include Padmasambhava's five main female consorts, often referred to as wisdom dakinis, and his twenty five main students along with king Trisong Detsen.Padmasambhāva ("Born from a Lotus"), [note 2] also known as Guru Rinpoche (Precious Guru) and the Lotus from Oḍḍiyāna, was a tantric Buddhist Vajra master from medieval India who taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries). [1] [2] [3] [4] According to some early Tibetan sources like the Testament of Ba, he came to Tibet in the 8th century and helped construct Samye Monastery, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet. [3] However, little is known about the actual historical figure other than his ties to Vajrayana and Indian Buddhism. [5] [1] Guru Senge Dradrog (Wylie: gu ru seng-ge sgra-sgrogs, Skt: Guru Simhanāda, [39]) meaning "The Lion's Roar", wrathful, subdues and pacifies negative influences, manifests in India and at Nalanda University, the Lion of Debate, promulgator of the Dharma throughout the six realms of sentient beings. He is shown as dark blue and surrounded by flames above a lotus, with fangs and three glaring eyes, crown of skulls and long hair, standing on a demon, holding a flaming vajra in the right hand, left hand in a subjugation mudra. 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] Lasum Gyelwa Changchup, Gyalwa Changchub of Lasum ( Tibetan: ལ་སུམ་རྒྱལ་བ་བྱང་ཆུབ, Wylie: la sum rgyal ba byang chub) [59] (image on Wikimedia commons)