The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava

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Bear in mind this isn’t a space to vent our views, it’s about exploring respectfully with others what it means to be a Buddhist within our community and in the modern world generally. The biography's 108 cantos sweep us along with the excitement afforded only by tales of the truly great giants of history. Padmasambhava manifested in the form of Guru Drakpo, ‘Wrathful Guru’, and bound the spirit under oath, placing him in charge of guarding Samyé’s treasury.

Everyone has off-moments, and we’ll always try to be in friendly dialogue with you if a problem arises with one of your contributions. Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work. It is clear, then, that the Guru stayed in Tibet for forty-eight years while the king was alive and seven years and six months afterwards. All those close to us are obstacles, so do not remain in the land of your father, and when you leave, go alone! He then miraculously created the palace of Lotus Light, endowed with inconceivable adornments, and emanated a replica of himself to reside on each of the surrounding eight islands — the eight kings who teach the Kagyé, the 'Eight Pronouncements’, amongst other teachings.

Gyatso taught at Amherst College before coming to Harvard as the Divinity School’s first Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies.

In Dear Lama Zopa, Rinpoche applies that challenge to our everyday, real-life problems—from the littlest to the biggest.

No part of this book, either text, illustrations or thankas,may be reproduced without written permio;sion. ofTarthangTulku Rinpoche; thanka on pagc 193 from the collection of John Gilmore Ford; thanka on pagc 109 copyright Ethnografisch Muscum,Antwcrp,Belgium; thankas on pages 317-325 courtesy of photo Muscc Nationaux,Paris, France; thanka on pagc 340 courtesy ofGulbenkian Museum of Oricntal Art, Durham, England. Let your action be the writing of books, your treasures ink and paper; when you find the Buddha within you, others will supply your needs.

The Guru went on to defeat some powerful heretic kings who were damaging the Buddhist doctrine, making use of a variety of skilful means, including ejecting their consciousnesses. Unlike other treasures he concealed, these were intended to remain without being retrieved at a later date. Janet Gyatso is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan and South Asian cultural history and the Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University.His root teacher, Khenpo Münsel, was a direct disciple of Khenpo Ngagchung and was himself one of the great authentic Dzogchen masters of the twentieth century. In the oceans that surround the western land of Uḍḍiyāna to the north, south, and east, there lies an island close to the land of the rākṣasas, found to Uḍḍiyāna’s southwest.

In this book, beloved teacher Lama Zopa Rinpoche guides us through the most popular mantras in Tibetan Buddhism: Shakyamuni Buddha, Chenrezig, Manjushri, Tara, Medicine Buddha, Vajrasattva, and more. In this way he studied and received all the sūtras, tantras and sciences from numerous learned and accomplished masters in India.

The following short biography of Guru Rinpoche was extracted from the Precious Garland of Lapis Lazuli ( Rin chen bai DU r. He performed the drubchen of the Kadü Chökyi Gyatso at Tramdruk, where he entrusted the profound teachings to Gyalsé Lhajé, the second prince, prophesying that he would benefit beings by becoming a revealer of the hidden terma-treasures after thirteen future lives.