dge slong ma dpal mo

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भिक्षुणीलक्ष्मी
Gelongma Palmo(b. 11th century - ) 
དགེ་སློང་མ་དཔལ་མོ་

Bhikṣuṇī Lakṣmī, or Gelongma Palmo as she is known in the Tibetan world, was the originator of the practice of nyungne (smyung gnas). While some Tibetan sources identify her as a princess of Oḍḍiyana who later became a nun, the Adinath temple in the small hilltop village of Chobhar on the outskirts of Kathmandu is believed to have been either her family home or the original site in which she engaged in this practice. Based on the thousand-armed form of the deity Avalokiteśvara, nyungne involves a typically three day cycle of practice that combines long periods of prostrations with intermittent fasting and the strict observance of vows. The practice was developed by Bhikṣuṇī Lakṣmī and through it she is reported to have cured herself of leprosy. The practice continues to be popular among Himalayan Buddhists, especially among older lay people for whom it is often an annual event that they practice collectively in groups. It is also traditional to repeat the three day cycle eight times in a row.

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Text People Deity/Cycle/Genre Total pages Folios
ཇོ་བོ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོའི་སྨྱུང་གནས་ཀྱི་ཆོ་གའི་ཁྲིད་ཡིག་གསལ་བའི་སྒྲོན་མེ།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་བབས་, Vol. 12, 517-563.)
Author: rdza rong phu ngag dbang bstan 'dzin nor bu
Tertön: dge slong ma dpal mo
Deity: thugs rje chen po
Cycle: thugs rje chen po bcu gcig zhal dpal mo lugs
Genre: Ritual of Fasting and Silence - smyung gnasContemplative Guide Books and Instructional Manuals - khrid yig
47 1a - 24a4
དཔལ་མོ་ལུགས་ཀྱི་སྨྱུང་ཆོག་སྡིག་སྒྲིབ་རྣམ་སྦྱོང་ཞུ་ཆེན་གྱི་གསུང་བཀླགས་ཆོག་ཏུ་བསྡེབས་པ།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 8, 153-218.)
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Associated ppl: dge slong ma dpal mo
Deity: thugs rje chen po
Cycle: thugs rje chen po bcu gcig zhal dpal mo lugs
Genre: Ritual of Fasting and Silence - smyung gnas
66 1a - 33b3
མཎྜལ་བསྡུས་པ་ཚོམ་བུ་བདུན་པ།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 8, 219-220.)
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Associated ppl: dge slong ma dpal mo
Deity: thugs rje chen po
Cycle: thugs rje chen po bcu gcig zhal dpal mo lugs
Genre: Offering Rituals - mchod sbyin
2 1a1 - 1b1
དཔལ་མོ་ལུགས་ཀྱི་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས་དང་ཉམས་ལེན།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 8, 221-226.)
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Associated ppl: dge slong ma dpal mo
Deity: thugs rje chen po
Cycle: thugs rje chen po bcu gcig zhal dpal mo lugs
6 1a - 3b2
དཔལ་མོ་ལུགས་ཀྱི་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 8, 221-223.)
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Associated ppl: dge slong ma dpal mo
Deity: thugs rje chen po
Cycle: thugs rje chen po bcu gcig zhal dpal mo lugs
Genre: Lineage Supplications - brgyud 'debs
3 1a - 2a1
ཉམས་ལེན་སྙིང་པོར་དྲིལ་བ་ཟུང་འཇུག་མྱུར་ལམ།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 8, 223-226.)
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Associated ppl: dge slong ma dpal mo
Deity: thugs rje chen po
Cycle: thugs rje chen po bcu gcig zhal dpal mo lugs
Genre: Activity Manual - las byang
4 2a1 - 3b2
བཅུ་གཅིག་ཞལ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་ལྔ་བསྐོར་གྱི་རྗེས་གནང་གཞན་ཕན་ཟླ་ཟེར།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 9, 382-399.)
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Associated ppl: dge slong ma dpal mo
Deity: thugs rje chen po
Cycle: thugs rje chen po bcu gcig zhal dpal mo lugs
Genre: Permission to Invoke (anujñā) - rjes gnang
18 13b3 - 22a5
དཔལ་མོ་ལུགས་རིགས་བཞིས་བསྐོར་བའི་རྗེས་གནང་གཞན་ཕན་ཟླ་སྣང་།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 9, 399-410.)
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Associated ppl: dge slong ma dpal mo
Deity: thugs rje chen po
Cycle: thugs rje chen po bcu gcig zhal dpal mo lugs
Genre: Permission to Invoke (anujñā) - rjes gnang
12 22a5 - 27b4
བཅུ་གཅིག་ཞལ་གྱི་བསྙེན་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱི་ཡི་གེ་མཁན་ཆེན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཕུན་ཚོགས་པའི་གསུང་རབ་སོར་བཞག་ལ། བསྙེན་ཡིག་ཉུང་བསྡུས།
(མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་བཀའ་འབུམ་, Vol. 9, 410-412.)
Author: 'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po
Associated ppl: dge slong ma dpal mo
Deity: thugs rje chen po
Cycle: thugs rje chen po bcu gcig zhal dpal mo lugs
Genre: Recitation Manual - bsnyen yig
3 27b4 - 28b6