Ye shes mtsho rgyal

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ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ་
Yeshe Tsogyal (b. 8th Century - )

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Yeshe Tsogyal was the principal consort of Guru Padmasambhava. She was Vajravarahi in human form and also an emanation of Tara and Buddhalochana. She was born as a princess in the clan of Kharchen. According to some accounts her father was called Namkha Yeshe and her mother was Gewa Bum. In other histories, such as the Zanglingma and the biography revealed by Taksham Nüden Dorje, her father is named as Kharchen Palgyi Wangchuk, who is otherwise said to have been her brother. Yet another version names her father as Tökar Lek and her mother as Gyalmo Tso.

She became the consort of King Trisong Detsen before being offered to Guru Rinpoche as a mandala offering during an empowerment. She specialized in the practice of Vajrakilaya and experienced visions of the deity and gained accomplishment. In Nepal, she paid a ransom for Acharya Salé and took him as her spiritual consort. Through the power of her unfailing memory, she collected all the teachings given by Guru Rinpoche in Tibet and concealed them as terma. At the end of her life, it is said, she flew through the air and went directly to Zangdokpalri. (Source: Rigpa Wiki)

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Main Wylie Name ye shes mtsho rgyal ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ
Other Names
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    Relationships
    Religious Affiliation Nyingma
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    Students
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    Links
    BDRC https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P7695
    Treasury of Lives http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Yeshe-Tsogyel/10373
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