Mandarava

The retrieved treatment gives her the marriage and the status of principal consort and little else; the Zahor material and the long-life practice associated with her are not in the retrieved sources, so the record does not carry them. NOTHING IS ADDED TO MAKE THE ENTRY LOOK COMPLETE.

Domains

• tantric practice

Relations

• tantric consort of: Padmasambhava

Sources

• Reference treatment of Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), the Lotus-Born: an Indian tantric master said to have transmitted Vajrayana Buddhism to Tibet and Bhutan in the eighth century; tradition holds he was incarnated as an eight-year-old child appearing in a lotus blossom floating on Lake Dhanakosha in the kingdom of Uddiyana; the local king recognised his nature and married him to his daughter Mandarava; his other principal consort was Yeshe Tsogyal, his chief disciple, the princess who recorded his teachings and concealed his terma in Tibet; many details of his life, including his origins, are debated, and the fourteenth-century terton Orgyen Lingpa's Padma bka' thang (Lotus Testament, 1352) gives his eleven deeds in full.