Biography of yeshe tsogyal by the artist
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Sky Dancer
Critical Reviews
'Among the great female adepts of Tibetan Tantra, Yeshe Tsogyel is foremost, and this masterpiece of Tibetan biographical literature conveys the meaning of her sublime apocalyptic life with lyrical beauty. Yeshe Tsogyel was an eighth century Tibetan princess who became the tantric consort of Tibet's Great Guru Padmasambhava. Her exemplary life story describes the ideal path of a yogini (a female practitioner) and in so far as it provides a blueprint for every woman who aspires to Buddhahood, Sky Danceris one of the most important translations to be made from the Tibetan. It describes her motivation, the initiations taken from the Guru, her path of practice, her tribulations and the impediments in meditation practice, and the signs of her success in realisation of her buddha nature. 'Skydancer' is a translation of the Tibetan word 'Khandroma' (dakini), 'female buddha'. Many of the songs provide secret precepts given to her by her teachers and by her to her disciples. These oral instructions belonging to the supreme path of tantra (anuttara-yoga-tantra) and Dzokchen provide the core of the biography.
'This work is important not only for its profound and detailed instruction on tantra-yoga, as an inspiration and guide on the tantric path, but
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Dri salient kun dga. N.d. Mkha' 'gro ma'i bka' chen gyi thim yig dang mkha' 'gro mtsho rgyal gyi skyes rabs le'u bdun pa.TBRC W8LS19942.
Drime Kunga point of view Yeshe Tsogyel. 2017.The Courage and Visions of Yeshe Tsogyal: Interpretation Autobiography break into the Cumulative Wisdom Queen. Chonyi Drolma, translator. Boulder: Snow Lion.
Gyatso, Janet. 2006. "A Partial Descent of say publicly Lifestory atlas Ye shes mtsho rgyal." Journal go in for the Supranational Association deduction Tibetan Studies, no. 2, pp. 1-27.
'Jam mgon kong sprul. 2007 (c. 1887) Dbyangs can sprul pa track shes mtsho rgyal. Market Zab mo'i gter dang gter ston grub thob ji ltar byon pa'i lo rgyus mdor bsdus bkod pa rin chen bai Fall to bits r.ya'i 'phreng ba, pp. 20a-21a. Delhi: Shechen publications. TBRC W1KG14.
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye. 2011. The One 100 Tertons. Yeshe Gyamtso, mediator. Woodstock: KTD Publications, pp. 44-45.
Stag sham heaviness ldan rdo rje. 1989 (17th century). Bod kyi jo sketch ye shes mtsho rgyal gyi mdzad tshul rnam par thar pa gibber pa mngon phyung rgyud mang dri za'i glu phreng / jo mo'i rnam thar skabs accomplice brgyad pa. Chengdu: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang. TBRC W1KG21756.
Taksham Nuden Dorje. 1996. Sky Dancer: the Shrouded Life humbling Songs confront the Muhammadan Yeshe Tsogyel. Keith Dowman, translator. Ithaca: Snow Lion.
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Yeshe Tsogyal
Yeshe Tsogyal (Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ་, Wyl.ye shes mtsho rgyal) — the principal consort of Guru Padmasambhava. She was Vajravarahi in human form and also an emanation of Tara and Buddhalochana.
Biography
She was born as a princess in the clan of Kharchen[1]. According to some accounts her father was called Namkha Yeshe and her mother was Gewa Bum.[2] In other histories, such as the Zanglingma and the biography revealed by Taksham Nüden Dorje, her father is named as Kharchen Palgyi Wangchuk, who is otherwise said to have been her brother. Yet another version names her father as Tökar Lek and her mother as Gyalmo Tso.
She became the consort of King Trisong Detsen before being offered to Guru Rinpoche as a mandala offering during an empowerment. She specialized in the practice of Vajrakilaya and experienced visions of the deity and gained accomplishment. In Nepal, she paid a ransom for Acharya Salé and took him as her spiritual consort. Through the power of her unfailing memory, she collected all the teachings given by Guru Rinpoche in Tibet and concealed them as terma. At the end of her life, it is said, she flew through the air and went directly to Zangdokpalri.
Notes
- ↑Tib. མཁར་ཆེན, Wyl. mkhar chen
- ↑See for example Tulku T