pad+ma 'byung gnas
Concerning the life story of Padmasambhava there are at least four different versions of his birth and early childhood. Within the Oral (Kama) Tradition of the Nyingma School, Padmasambhava was born in Northern India as the son of a king, or minister. In the Revealed Treasure (Terma) Tradition he was born on a lotus in Dhanakosha lake, in the country of Oddiyana, as an emanation of Lokeshvara and the Buddha Amitabha. The Treasure King, Dorje Lingpa, revealed a number of Buddhist and Bon treasure texts where the Bon explain a completely different narrative of the life story and have Padmasambhava born in Tibet. There is also some evidence to suggest that Padmasambhava came from South India and that he was the brother-in-law of the Indian Abbott Shantarakshita, founder of Samye, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet. (Source Accessed Jan 21, 2020)
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Terton Gyatsa Information
| Name in Gyatsa (Tibetan) | སངས་རྒྱས་གཉིས་པ་པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ |
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| Name in Gyatsa (Wylie) | sangs rgyas gnyis pa pad+ma 'byung gnas |
| Page numbers | Rinchen Terdzö, Volume I, Text #6, Pages 352 to 368, folio 6a5 to 14a3 |
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