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-Oḍḍiyāna ([[o rgyan]])
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-*Oḍḍiyāna , the birth-place of [[Padmākara]], is the name of an ancient kingdom, probably situated in the remote north-west of the Indian subcontinent, where a large corpus of tantric literature is said to have been propagated in the human world for the first time. The land of Oḍḍiyāna is associated with a number of great accomplished masters ([[siddha]]) including Padmasambhava, [[Kambalapāda]], and [[Līlāvajra]] in particular. On the basis of traditional Tibetan pilgrimage accounts, such as that writen by O-rgyan-pa Rin-chen-dpal, modern writers identify Oḍḍiyāna as having been in the region of the Swat valley in Pakistan. The Tibetan form of Oḍḍiyāna, O-rgyan, is also by extension a name for Padmasambhava himself. [[GD]] (from the Glossary to [[Tibetan Elemental Divination Paintings]])
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