Padma Kathang

Padma Kathang by Orgyen Lingpa. Tibetan title: (o rgyan gu ru pad ma 'byung gnas kyi skyes rabs ran par that pa rgyas pa bkod pa pad ma bka'i thang yig). Long version in poetry, 108 chapters in 721 pages. Revealed in the Crystal Cave of Yarlung in central Tibet and therefore also known as Namthar Sheldragma, The Crystal Cave Biography. Originally translated into French by Toussaint, G.-C. as Le Dict de Padma (Padma Thang Yig MS. de Lithang). Paris: 1933. Later re-translated in to English by Kenneth Douglas and Gwendolyn M. Bays, published by Tarthang Tulku as The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava.