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| − | ''From the [[heart]] of [[Buddha Amitabha]], light rays radiated into the bud of a [[lotus]] on [[Danakosha lake]]. Upon its ripening, appeared an amazing child, adorned with the major and minor marks sitting atop a thousand petalled lotus.Glorious [[Guru Padmasambhava]], please {{Wiki|protect}} and guide me until I attain [[complete enlightenment]].
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| − | [[Inseparable]] from the [[Primordial Buddha]] [[Samantabhadra]], the all-pervading [[Lord]] of the [[three jewels]] of [[Buddha]], [[Dharma]] and [[Sangha]], and [[master]] of the [[three roots]] of [[lama]], [[yidam]], and [[dakini]], the glorious [[Guru Padmasambhava]] should be definitively understood as being the [[essence of Buddha]] [[Amitabha]]. In order to propagate and spread the teachings of the [[Dharma]] in general, and particularly the [[secret mantra]] and [[Dzogchen]] teachings, he appears to every being of the three thousand billion [[world]] systems in a [[form]] to [[benefit]] them according to their personal [[karmic]] [[vision]]. In this way [[Guru Padmasambhava]] has countless unimaginable {{Wiki|biographies}}, one {{Wiki|biography}} for each being. Although that is the definitive {{Wiki|biography}} of [[Guru Padmasambhava]], the historical figure [[Guru]] [[Padmasambhava’s]] life-story as known to the common [[disciples]] is as follows. When the [[time]] for [[Guru Rinpoche]] to {{Wiki|liberate}} the [[beings]] of this [[world]] approached, on the tenth day of the sixth month of the [[Monkey]] year, he appeared miraculously in the blossom of a [[lotus]] in the [[lake]] called “[[Ocean of Milk]]” in [[South West]] Odiyana, which is also known as [[Lake Danakosha]] located on the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier. However there are different interpretations regarding his [[birth]]. Some [[Indian]] {{Wiki|historians}} affirm that he was born to a minister or a [[King]] of Odiyana, and some claim that he appeared instantaneously on the summit of [[Mt. Malaya]] in [[Sri Lanka]]. But [[Guru]] [[Padmasambhava’s]] [[treasure teachings]] confirm the version which states that he was born spontaneously from a [[lotus]]. This source is the most renow and thus the following history is provided accordingly.
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| − | The great [[river]] [[Sindhu]], one of the [[four great rivers]] that springs from the four [[directions]] of [[Kailash]] mountain, flows towards the {{Wiki|Western}} Land of Odiyana and finally empties into the Arabian Sea. When the [[river]] reaches Odiyana, it [[forms]] a [[lake]] filled with [[lotuses]]. As the [[lotus]] [[roots]] produce a [[sweet]]- milky juice, it is called “[[Ocean of Milk]].” Prior to [[Guru]] [[Padmasambhava’s]] [[birth]], in the centre of the [[lake]] a large, fully mature, beautiful, [[red lotus]] grew, and from the [[heart]] of [[Buddha Amitabha]] in [[space]], a red {{Wiki|syllable}} HRI fell about eight cubits above the collora of the [[lotus]]. The {{Wiki|syllable}} dissolved into light and instantly, without depending on the [[causes]] and [[conditions]] of father and mother, there arose an eight-year-old child perfectly adorned with the [[characteristic]] major and minor marks. Holding a [[vajra]] and a [[lotus]] in his hands, he immediately began giving teachings to the [[gods]] and [[dakinis]] of the area.
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| − | At that [[time]], the [[ruler]] of the land of Odiyana, the Second [[King]] [[Indrabodhi]], was residing in his nine- tufted palace with his [[Wikipedia:Queen consort|queen]] as well as hundreds and thousands of inner and outer ministers. Because the [[king]] did not have a son, on the [[full moon]] day of the fifth summer month, he made great [[offerings]] to the [[Triple Gems]] and recited the [[Dharma]] Cloud [[Sutra]] . He also opened the door of his three thousand treasuries and went on distributing [[alms]] to the poor and needy until his [[wealth]] was exhausted. He then exclaimed, “Beggars have still not ceased, but I have nothing to grant!”. When the remaining beggars did not receive their share, they hold the [[king]] that if he did not provide their share, whatever was done in the {{Wiki|past}} would be meaningless. The [[king]] heard this and, inspired to acquire inexhaustive [[wealth]] for the beggars, he travelled to the ocean to procure the [[wish-fulfilling jewel]] from the {{Wiki|crown}} of the [[mystical]] creature, Charumati, daughter of [[Naga]]. He procured the [[jewel]] without mishap and sailed back with his boat filled with the seven varieties of [[jewels]]. While travelling to meet the [[king]], the king’s [[religious]] minister, Trig Na Dzin, found the [[extraordinary]] child on the [[lotus]] and narrated the full story of the child to the [[king]]. The [[king]] was [[pleased]] by this news and went tot the child and inquired about his father, mother and to which [[caste]] and country he belonged. The child exclaimed:
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| − | :My father is the self-arisen [[Samantabhadra]].
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| − | :My mother is the [[sphere of reality]], [[Samantabhadri]].
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| − | :My [[caste]] is the union of [[primordial wisdom]] and the [[Dharmadhatu]]. :And [[my name]] is the glorious [[Padmasambhava]].
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| − | Having heard this, the [[king]] was thrown into a wonder of [[delight]]. He [[thought]] a [[Nirmanakaya]] had taken [[birth]] and invited the child to the palace as his son as well as [[religious]] guide. The child was named “[[Padmasambhava]]” meaning “[[lotus-born]].” Later he married Prabhadharani, the daughter of [[king]] Chandan Gomashree, and ruled the {{Wiki|kingdom}} in accordance with the [[Dharma]]. He became renown as Shikhabandh [[Raja]] or “The [[King]] With Plaited [[Hair]].”
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| − | He [[perceived]] that since politics is contradictory to the teachings of [[liberation]], and his position would not fulfil the purpose of [[sentient beings]], he performed a [[mystical]] [[activity]] of killing the son of a wicked minister and lifted his [[consciousness]] into the Charadhatu. As a result he was banished [[form]] the country to the {{Wiki|fearful}} [[cemetery]] of [[Sitavana]]. Gradually by performing [[mystical]] [[activities]] at the {{Wiki|cemeteries}} of Nandanvan, Daanbhumidvipa, Parushakavan, and so forth he accomplished the common and uncommon [[siddhis]] and came to be known as Rodravajrakala, “The [[Wrathful]] [[Vajra]] Display.”
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| − | In order to inspire [[faith]] towards the teachings in the [[disciples]] of the {{Wiki|future}}, he then went to [[Bodhgaya]] and many other places displaying the act of receiving teachings from many great [[scholars]], accomplished [[masters]] and [[Dakinis]]. By listening just once, he comprehended and accomplished the whole [[canon]] of the [[three baskets]] of [[Vinaya]], [[Sutra]] and [[Abhidharma]], as well as the teachings of the outer and inner [[secret mantra]], [[oral transmissions]], and the [[pith instructions]] of the [[highest]] and innermost [[tantra]] of [[Atiyoga]]. Even if he did not propitiate, the [[deities]] of the [[mandala]] displayed their [[forms]] and he became a peerless erudite and accomplished [[master]]. Thus he showed the [[signs]] of perfecting the level of the Fully Ripened [[Awareness Holder]]. Thereafter e was known as the [[Guru]] Dhimana Varruchi, “The Supreme [[Love]] Endowed With [[Wisdom]].”
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| − | He then took {{Wiki|princess}} [[Mandarava]], daughter of [[Shastradhara]], the [[king]] of [[Zahor]], as his [[consort]]. Possessing the marks of a [[dakini]], he took her to the mountain {{Wiki|cave}} of [[Maratika]], known as Halesha, in {{Wiki|present}} day, [[Nepal]], where they performed the [[accomplishment]] [[rituals]] of longevity for three months and actualised the [[Immortal]] [[Vajra Body]] which marks the [[attainment]] of an [[Immortal Life]] [[Awareness Holder]].
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| − | In order to tame the [[people]] of Odiyana he returned there disguised as a {{Wiki|mendicant}} but many [[people]] recognised him and he was set to be burned alive in a [[sandalwood]] [[fire]] by a host of evil-minded ministers and [[people]]. When the [[fire]] was lit, he miraculously [[transformed]] the [[fire]] into a huge [[lake]] filled with [[lotuses]]. Sitting himself with [[consort]] over a giant [[lotus]] in the middle of the [[lake]], the [[king]], ministers, and [[people]] were astounded and developed great [[faith]] towards him. In addition, at the {{Wiki|cave}} of Yanglashod in [[Nepal]] he practised the Vishuda [[deity]] depending on the [[accomplishment]] [[consort]] [[Sakya Devi]] of [[Nepal]] and very soon both of them became supreme [[Mahamudra]] [[Awareness]] Holders. Thus were some of the achievements of [[Guru Padmasambhava]] prior to coming to [[Tibet]].
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| − | When [[Lord Buddha]] gave [[Avalokiteshvara]] the {{Wiki|responsibility}} of taming the backwards land of [[Tibet]], [[Avalokiteshvara]] looked at the barbaric land and shed {{Wiki|tears}} of [[compassion]]. From these {{Wiki|tears}} the [[Goddess]] [[Wikipedia:Ganga (goddess)|Ganga]] and Gangchungma were born. One day [[Goddess]] Gangchungma stole some [[celestial]] [[flowers]] and due to her {{Wiki|decline}} in [[merit]], when she [[died]] she was unable to again take [[rebirth]] as a [[god]] and fell to the [[human realm]]. She took [[birth]] as the [[human]] woman, Dechogma, the daughter of Sale from the Jardzinma [[caste]].
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| − | Being born from [[Avalokiteshvara’s]] {{Wiki|tears}}, she naturally had great [[faith]] in the [[Dharma]] and thus commissioned the construction of a magnificent [[stupa]] in [[Boudha]] near [[Kathmandu]] in [[Nepal]]. However she [[died]] before the [[stupa]] was completed. Her four sons [[vowed]] to complete the unfinished [[stupa]], and in honour of their mother, and out of supreme [[faith]] in the [[Dharma]], they made solemn [[prayers]] from the bottoms of their hearts. Upon completion of the [[stupa]], they each fervently prayed to be [[reborn]] as a [[Dharma king]], a great learned [[khenpo]], a powerful [[tantric master]], and a messenger that would bring the previous three together. Legend also has it that during the construction of the [[stupa]] a [[wise]] {{Wiki|donkey}} was commissioned and overheard the four sons’ [[prayers]]. Hearing this, the {{Wiki|donkey}} [[thought]], “I have done so much work for them and they don’t even remember me in their [[prayers]]! I [[vow]] to do my best to destroy the {{Wiki|fruits}} of their [[prayers]].”
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| − | According to their aspirations, one son was [[reborn]] as [[Trisong Deutsen]], the 38th {{Wiki|king of Tibet}} and an [[incarnation]] of [[Manjushri]]. One son was [[reborn]] as the [[kings]]’ messenger who invited both the great [[Khenpo]] [[Shantarakshita]] and the [[tantric master]] [[Guru Padmasambhava]] from [[India]], who were the [[reincarnations]] of the other two sons. [[Guru Padmasambhava]], recalling his {{Wiki|past}} aspirations, accepted the invitation, and on his way he subdued all the harmful [[gods]] and {{Wiki|demons}} of [[Tibet]], making them faithful guardians of the [[Dharma]]. After meeting in [[Tibet]], the [[king]], [[guru]] and [[khenpo]] together [[constructed]] [[Tibet’s]] first great [[monastery]] at [[Samye]] and fully furnished it with [[statues]]. In addition they gave [[monk’s]] [[vows]] tot [[Tibet’s]] first seven [[monks]], standardised translation methods, supervised translation of most of the [[sutras]] and [[tantras]] from [[Sanskrit]] to [[Tibetan]], and for the first [[time]] in [[Tibet]], firmly established the [[tradition]] of study, contemplation and [[meditation]], thereby radiating the [[Buddha Dharma]] in [[Tibet]] like [[rays of the sun]].
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| − | Not leaving even the [[space]] of a horse-hoof untouched, [[Guru Padmasambhava]] miraculously walked upon the entire land of [[Tibet]] and generally blessed all the [[mountains]], lakes and [[caves]] as places for [[accomplishment]]. Specifically in the [[Ngari]] region of upper [[Tibet]] he blessed twenty mountain [[caves]]. In Utsang he blessed twenty-one [[sacred]] places of [[accomplishment]]. In [[Dokham]] he blessed twenty-five [[sacred]] places, as well as the three kingly [[treasure]] places in upper, central and lower [[Tibet]], the five provinces, three valleys, one island and so forth. In addition, for the sake of [[beings]] to be tamed in the {{Wiki|future}}, [[Guru Padmasambhava]] concealed eighteen varieties of [[treasure]] which include [[treasure texts]], material [[wealth]], {{Wiki|holy}} images and so forth, and gave explicit [[prophesies]] regarding the {{Wiki|future}} [[manifestation]] of these [[treasures]], including the revealer and [[protector]] of the [[treasure]], as well as the [[time]] of [[revelation]].
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| − | :[[Padmavajra]], [[Vajra]] of the [[Lotus]], severed the [[roots]] of the five [[poison]].
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| − | :[[Padmaraja]], [[King]] of the [[Lotus]], provided [[mundane]] and [[Wikipedia:Absolute (philosophy)|ultimate]] benefits to [[sentient beings]].
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| − | :[[Padmasambhava]], the [[Lotus-born]], blessed [[beings]] endowed with [[faith]].
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| − | :[[Dorje]] Droled tamed the [[Yakshas]] and haughty [[beings]].
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| − | :[[Suryaprabha]], the [[Rays of the Sun]], taught the [[essence]] of [[secret mantra]].
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| − | :[[Sakyasimha]], the [[Lion]] of [[Sakyas]], guided [[beings]] towards the [[path of liberation]].
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| − | :And Dhimanvaruchi, the Supremely [[Wise]] [[Love]], showered the [[teaching]] of [[sutra]] and [[mantra]].
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| − | [http://www.muktinath.org/buddhism/padmasambhava.pdf muktinath.org]
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