The Life & Liberation of Padmasambhava: Pt. 1 & 2 (Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava)

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An Eastern branch of Adiyoga arose in China independently of the direct personal influence of Padma-Sambhava; it was inspired by the same Yogachara school of India that inspired his teachings in Tibet. The founders of the Eastern Branch, Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra, reached China together in 719 CE. They are thought to have been Padma-Sambhava's fellow students in India (195-96). Tsogyal, Yeshe. The Lotus-Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava. Tr. Erik Perna Kunsang. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1999. ⍽▢⍽Traditional accounts: The yogi Padmasambhava grew up an adopted prince, was banished, burned at the stake, and continued unscathed for a long, long time. Tibetans tell he subjugated demons and taught the Buddha's teachings in their country. 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]

Samten Lingpa (also known as Tagsham Nu Den Dorje), a terton from the second half of the 17th century, consecrated six folios to Mandarava and Padmasambhava and their meditation practices in Maratika Cave. Belmo Sakya Devi of Nepal, who was the emanation of Vajravarahi's Mind (Tibetan: thugs; Sanskrit: citta); and Morgan, D. (2010). Essential Buddhism: A Comprehensive Guide to Belief and Practice. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-38452-3. Changchub, Gyalwa; Nyingpo, Namkhai (2002). Lady of the Lotus-born: The Life and Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal. Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group. Boston & London: Shambhala Publications. ISBN 1-57062-544-1.Because of his role in the founding of Samye monastery, the first monastery in Tibet, Padmasambhava is regarded as the founder of the Nyingma school ("Ancients") of Tibetan Buddhism. [33] [34] [35] Padmasambhava's activities in the Tibet include the practice of tantric rituals to increase the life of the king as well as initiating king Trisong Detsen into tantric rites. [4] Padmasambhava has twenty five main students ( Tibetan: རྗེ་འབངས་ཉེར་ལྔ, Wylie: rje 'bangs nyer lnga) in Tibet during the Nyingma's school's Early Translation period. These students are also called the "Twenty-five King and subjects" and "The King and 25" of Chimphu. [55] In Dudjom Rinpoche's list, [56] and in other sources, these include:

Meulenbeld, Ben (2001). Buddhist Symbolism in Tibetan Thangkas: The Story of Siddhartha and Other Buddhas Interpreted in Modern Nepalese Painting. Netherlands: Binkey Kok. ISBN 978-9074597449. Doney, Lewis. The Zangs gling ma. The First Padmasambhava Biography. TwoExemplars of the Earliest Attested Recension. 2014. MONUMENTA TIBETICA HISTORICA Abt. II:Band 3.

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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. Dudjom Rinpoche (2002). The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism: Its Fundamentals and History. Translated by Gyurme Dorje and Matthew Kapstein. Boston: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-199-8. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Tiy: Evans-Wentz, Walter Y., ed. Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines. 2nd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1967. ⍽▢⍽ The book contains translations of texts and also orally transmitted teachings collected and translated by the late Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup.

Mandelbaum, Arthur (August 2007). "Gyelwai Lodro". The Treasury of Lives: Biographies of Himalayan Religious Masters . Retrieved 10 August 2013. The Chime Soktik, a terma received by Mandarava and Padmasambhava directly from Buddha Amitayus, has become the central long life practice of the Dudjom Tersar lineage. [ citation needed] Associations [ edit ] contemplation too (cf. 224). See Patanjali (book 3, verses 1-4 etc) for keys to success-attainments According to Khenchen Palden Sherab, there are traditionally said to be nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine biographies of Padmasambhava. [2] They are categorized in three ways: Those relating to Padmasambhava's Dharmakaya buddhahood, those accounts of his Sambhogakaya nature, and those chronicles of his Nirmanakaya activities. [2] Birth and early life [ edit ] It was during a spiritual retreat with many of the women she converted to Buddhism, that Mandarava and her retinue met Padmasambhava. [17]The text contained in this book is a biography of Padmasambhava, one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism and the main originator of its introduction and diffusion in Tibet. There are many biographies in Tibetan of this great yogi, some of which have been translated into Western languages.

Harvey, Peter (2008). An Introduction to Buddhism Teachings, History and Practices (2 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.204. ISBN 9780521676748 . Retrieved 6 October 2015.Thondup, Tulku (1986). Hidden Teachings of Tibet: An Explanation of the Terma Tradition of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. London: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0861710416. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal. Lion's Gaze: A Commentary on Tsig Sum Nedek. Sky Dancer Press, 1998.