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From ''[[Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo]]'' root text, opening verses.
From ''[[Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo]]'' root text, opening verses.
==Names & Titles==
*Guru Padma - the Lotus Master


==Internal Links==
==Internal Links==

Revision as of 01:36, 2 May 2006

Padmasambhava (pad ma 'byung gnas). 'Lotus-born.' Same as Guru Rinpoche. Padmakara and Padmasambhava are interchangeable in Tibetan literature, sometimes is used the Tibetan translation Pema Jungney, sometimes the Sanskrit.

The essence of all the buddhas of the three times, the supreme sovereign of all power-wielding vidyadharas, the all-encompassing lord of the ocean of peaceful and wrathful yidams (yi dam), the chief of the gatherings of all the dakas and dakinis, the great being who by his splendor outshines all the vajra protectors of the Dharma and the haughty forces of appearance and existence, is the one renowned throughout the infinite realms of the teachers of the Three Kayas as Mahaguru Padmasambhava.

From Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo root text, opening verses.

Names & Titles

  • Guru Padma - the Lotus Master

Internal Links

External Links

Jamgon Kongtrul's medium length biography of Padmasambhava from the Precious Garland of Lapis Lazuli, a collection of life stories of the 108 main tertons.