Padmasambhava | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-11

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00:01:09 1 Historical sources
00:02:15 2 Mythos
00:02:24 2.1 Sources
00:03:17 2.2 Early years
00:03:26 2.2.1 Birth
00:04:17 2.2.2 Tantra in India and Nepal
00:05:47 2.3 Tibet
00:05:55 2.3.1 Subjection of local religions
00:07:48 2.3.2 Translations
00:08:36 2.3.3 Nyingma
00:10:04 2.4 Bhutan
00:11:10 3 Iconography, manifestations and attributes
00:11:22 3.1 Iconography
00:11:31 3.1.1 General
00:11:53 3.1.2 Head
00:12:40 3.1.3 Skin
00:12:52 3.1.4 Dress
00:13:37 3.1.5 Hands
00:14:10 3.1.6 Khatvanga
00:16:10 3.1.7 Seat
00:16:23 3.1.8 Surrounding
00:16:52 3.2 Eight Manifestations
00:21:26 3.3 Attributes
00:21:35 3.3.1 Pure-land Paradise
00:21:51 3.3.2 Samantabhadra and Samantabhadri
00:22:33 4 Teachings and practices ascribed to Padmasambhava
00:22:45 4.1 The Vajra Guru mantra
00:23:52 4.2 The Seven Line Prayer to Padmasambhava
00:25:30 4.3 Termas
00:26:09 4.4 Tantric cycles
00:27:16 5 Consorts and twenty five main disciples
00:27:51 5.1 The five main consorts or five wisdom dakinis
00:30:45 5.2 The 'Twenty-five Main Disciples' of Padmasambhava
00:34:33 6 Gallery
00:34:42 7 See also



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Padmasambhava (lit. "Lotus-Born"), also known as Guru Rinpoche, was an 8th-century Buddhist master from the Indian subcontinent. Although there was a historical Padmasambhava, little is known of him apart from helping the construction of the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet at Samye, at the behest of Trisong Detsen, and shortly thereafter leaving Tibet due to court intrigues.A number of legends have grown around Padmasambhava's life and deeds, and he is widely venerated as a "second Buddha" by adherents of Tibetan Buddhism in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, the Himalayan states of India, and elsewhere.In Tibetan Buddhism, he is a character of a genre of literature called terma, an emanation of Amitābha that is said to appear to tertöns in visionary encounters and a focus of guru yoga practice, particularly in the Rimé schools. The Nyingma school considers Padmasambhava to be a founder of their tradition.