The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava

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So after eight years at Samyé he appeared to depart by flying from the Mangyul pass — but this was only an emanation. The second truth tells us that there is a cause for all this suffering—the delusions and karma that arise from the ignorance that fails to see the way in which things exist. Once you are able to ward off danger, that is the precious treasure of the earth; live in isolation, and subjugate yourself.

You’ll find solace in this wealth of advice, and you’ll also gain the confidence to ensure that your loved one’s death—and your own—will be joyful and meaningful. Each was entrusted with a specific transmission, and all nine attained accomplishment ( siddhi) through practicing their respective teaching. A year later, the foundation was laid for a huge temple, but the indigenous spirits created obstacles and prevented its construction. In the thirteen places named Taktsang, ‘Tiger’s Lair’ — at Mönka Nering Sengé Dzong and so forth — the Guru manifested in the terrifying wrathful form of crazy wisdom, binding all the haughty spirits great and small, entrusting them under oath to guard the terma-treasures.Padmasambhava, known as the ‘Second Buddha’, has influenced countless beings through the essential vajrayāna teachings of secret mantra, and especially through his profound terma-treasure activities here in Tibet. He also went to Tirāhuti [12] and other regions of the Tharu kingdom [13] as well as other lands such as Kāmarūpa. They are servants to others' reactions, positive or negative, and are preoccupied with others' opinions; they do not consider the Dharma as anything but a means to food and wealth. Translated by Kenneth Douglas and Gwendolyn Bays from Toussaint's French, corrected with the original Tibetan.

This fourth and final Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics volume provides, through extensive passages, a window into the works of the great thinkers from the flowering of philosophy in classical India. And when this prediction of investiture was praised, he went forth to become son of King Suddhodana of Kapilavastu. Tighten your restless mind, and widen your awareness; take measure of your wandering thoughts, and as steady as Mount Meru, enter into meditation. For those who are loquacious, stubborn, and slanderous, like their own thoughts come the thoughts of others.

Reaching Ngayab Ling – the ‘Cāmara continent,’ the Guru went to the summit of Zangdok Palri, ‘the Glorious Copper-Coloured Mountain’, where he liberated Raksha Tötreng, king of the rākṣasas, and assumed his form. After some time, the pair were found seated upon a lotus in the middle of a lake, wearing garlands of skulls, as a symbol of their activity of liberating all beings from saṃsāra.

Then he requested empowerment from the nun Ānandā, who was actually the wisdom ḍākinī Guhyajñāna manifest in the form of a nun. ya'i 'phreng ba), a collection of life stories of the 108 main tertöns written by Jamgön Kongtrul and found in Volume I of his Treasury of Precious Termas, the Rinchen Terdzö (Rin chen gter mdzod). In this last of three volumes on emptiness, the Dalai Lama takes us through the Sautrāntika, Yogācāra, and Svātantrika views on the ultimate nature of reality and the Prāsaṅgikas’ thorough responses to these, so that we gain the correct view of emptiness—the selflessness of both persons and phenomena. But it seems that learned people consider that number to represent half-years, and accept it simply as an indication of many years. Approaching our physical realities in this way will help us to live well and, when the time comes as it inevitably will, to die well too.It is not certain when he went to the land of the Drāviḍa [14], but the Guru gradually tamed the humans and spirits there, including the ḍākinīs, and he built great monasteries as well.