Padmasambhava

THE LARGEST SINGLE ABSENCE THIS PROGRAMME HAS FOUND. The Tibetan Buddhist key held nine records, four of which are spirits this figure bound under oath, and it did not hold him. He is authored as a deity and not as a mortal because the tradition's own transmission gives him no parents and no death: he appears already eight years old in a lotus on Lake Dhanakosha and departs for the Copper-Coloured Mountain, which is why vitalStatus is 'departed'. The eight manifestations (Guru Tsokye Dorje, Guru Shakya Senge, Guru Nyima Ozer, Guru Padmasambhava, Guru Loden Chokse, Guru Pema Gyalpo, Guru Senge Dradok, Guru Dorje Drolo) are a SERIES and are not ingested as separate records; the sources' own note that the details of his origins are debated is recorded rather than resolved. TYPE deity IS THE NEAREST CATEGORY THIS SCHEMA HAS AND THE TRADITION DOES NOT USE IT. The vocabulary deity|numen|demigod|quartigod|scion|mortal has no category for a buddha, a bodhisattva or a yidam, and Vajrayana does not regard any of them as a god. Lane 26 escalated this; nothing is decided here.

Domains

• tantric transmission to tibet
• subjugation of local spirits
• terma

Epithets

• གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ (gu ru rin po che)

Relations

• tantric consort of: Mandarava
• tantric consort of: Yeshe Tsogyal
• sent for by: Śāntarakṣita
• invited by: Trisong Detsen
• bound under oath: Pehar Gyalpo
• bound under oath: Nyenchen Tanglha
• bound under oath: Tashi Tseringma

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.