Pad+ma 'byung gnas

Padmasambhava

པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་

Along with Trisong Detsen and Shantarakshita, Padmasambhava is considered one of the principal early teachers to bring Buddhism to Tibet in the 8th century, Padmasambhava has numerous forms representing outer, inner and secret aspects of his spiritual being. He is also known by many different names which generally follow chronologically his life story. Aside from Trisong Detsen and Shantarakshita, the most important figures to interact with Padmasambhava were his principle Tibetan consort Yeshe Tsogyal and the principal Twenty-five Disciples. There are various Padmasambhava Number Sets which help to organize the important topics and essential subjects of his life and chronological sequence of important events, along with grouping the various sub-sets of important disciples. An 18th century curiosity is the inclusion of Padmasambhava as one of the pre-incarnations in the line of Panchen Lamas.

Concerning the life story of Padmasambhava there are at least four different versions of his birth and early childhood. Within the Oral (Kama) Tradition of the Nyingma School, Padmasambhava was born in Northern India as the son of a king, or minister. In the Revealed Treasure (Terma) Tradition he was born on a lotus in Dhanakosha lake, in the country of Oddiyana, as an emanation of Lokeshvara and the Buddha Amitabha. The Treasure King, Dorje Lingpa, revealed a number of Buddhist and Bon treasure texts where the Bon explain a completely different narrative of the life story and have Padmasambhava born in Tibet. There is also some evidence to suggest that Padmasambhava came from South India and that he was the brother-in-law of the Indian Abbott Shantarakshita, founder of Samye, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet. (Source Accessed Jan 21, 2020)

Other names

གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ · other names (Tibetan)
ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཆེན་པོ་ · other names (Tibetan)
ཨོ་རྒྱན་གྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་ · other names (Tibetan)
བློ་ལྡན་མཆོག་སྲེད་ · other names (Tibetan)
གུ་རུ་ཉི་མ་འོད་ཟེར་ · other names (Tibetan)
གུ་རུ་ཤཱཀྱ་སེང་གེ་ · other names (Tibetan)
གུ་རུ་སེང་གེ་སྒྲ་སྒྲོག་ · other names (Tibetan)
gu ru rin po che · other names (Wylie)
o rgyan chen po · other names (Wylie)
o rgyan gyi slob dpon · other names (Wylie)
blo ldan mchog sred · other names (Wylie)
gu ru nyi ma 'od zer · other names (Wylie)
gu ru shAkya seng ge · other names (Wylie)
gu ru seng ge sgra sgrog · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

Śrīsiṃha · teacher
Prabhahasti · teacher
Hūṃkāra · teacher
Dhanasaṃskṛta · teacher
Khri srong lde'u btsan · student
Gnubs chen sangs rgyas ye shes · student
Nam mkha'i snying po · student
Rgyal ba mchog dbyangs · student
Gnyags dz+nyA na ku mA ra · student
Ye shes mtsho rgyal · student
'brog mi dpal gyi ye shes · student
Rlangs dpal gyi seng+ge · student
Bai ro tsa na · student
G.yu sgra snying po · student
Sna nam rdo rje bdud 'joms · student
Sog po dpal gyi ye shes · student
Ye shes dbyangs · student
Ldan ma rtse mang · student
Mkhar chen dpal gyi dbang phyug · student
Ye shes sde · student
Ska ba dpal brtsegs · student
Shud bu dpal gyi seng ge · student
Rgyal ba'i blo gros · student
Dran pa nam mkha' · student
Khye'u chung lo tsA ba · student
'o bran dpal gyi dbang phyug · student
Rma rin chen mchog · student
Lang gro dkon mchog 'byung gnas · student
Lha lung dpal gyi rdo rje · student
La gsum rgyal ba byang chub · student
Man+dA ra ba · student
ShAkya de bI · student
Bkra shis khye'u 'dren · student
KA la sid+d+hi · student
Mu tig btsan po · student
Mu khri btsan po · student
Mkhon klu'i dbang po · student