Yeshe Tsogyal

SHE IS THE REASON THE TRADITION HAS ANYTHING TO TRANSMIT: the source has her recording his teachings and hiding them as terma, including a biography of Padmasambhava concealed under a statue of Hayagriva. AUTHORED mortal, on the line this batch states in its header: her dates are given (c. 757 or 777 - 817) and her transmission is a namtar, and the corpus already files Sakyamuni as mortal on exactly that footing. The prediction that she would be reborn as Machig Labdron is recorded as what the source says and NOT as a relation, because a rebirth is not an edge between two contemporaries and Machig Labdron is not in this batch.

Domains

• terma
• transmission
• enlightenment in one lifetime

Relations

• tantric consort of: Padmasambhava
• disciple of: Padmasambhava

Sources

• Reference treatment of Yeshe Tsogyal (c. 757 or 777 - 817), 'Victorious Ocean of Knowledge', known by her clan name Lady Kharchen: the chief disciple and principal Tibetan consort of Padmasambhava, held to have attained enlightenment in her lifetime and called the Mother of Tibetan Buddhism; she recorded his teachings and was responsible for hiding his numerous terma in Tibet, among them a biography of Padmasambhava concealed in the ninth century under the statue of the tantric deity Hayagriva on a temple shrine; the Life of Yeshe Tsogyal records Padmasambhava's prediction that she would be reborn as Machig Labdron, and that the important figures of her life would be reborn in Machig Labdron's.