About Padmasambhava
Subtitle: historical narratives and later transformations of Guru Rinpoche
By: edited by Geoffrey Samuel and Jamyang Oliphant of Rossie
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Garuda Verlag
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Schongau
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9783906139364
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Congresses; Cult; Lamas; Biography; Buddhist priests; Buddhism; Cults
Notes: "The book brings together ten papers on Padmasambhava , most of them originating from conferences held at SOAS, London, 2013 and the Rubin Museum in New York in 2018."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One: Padmasambhava in early manuscripts.; title: The early development of the Padmasambhava Legend in Tibet : a second look at the evidence from Dunhuang  -- Jacob P. Dalton; title: Geographical and other borders in the symbolism of Padmasambhava  -- Robert Mayer; title: The Lotus-born in Nepal : a Dunhuang narrative and the later biographical tradition  -- Lewis Doney -- Part Two: Padmasambhava in the gTer-ma Tradition.; title: The formative impact of Guru Chöwang's (gu ru chos kyi dbang phyug, 1212-1270) secret embodiment of the Lama (bla ma gsang 'dus) on the Padmasambhava ritual traditions  -- Cathy Cantwell -- An introduction to The Stainless Ornament Biography of Guru Padmasambhava revealed as a Dharma treasure by bSam gtan gli ng pa / -- martin Boord; title: Branching from the lotus-born : Padmasambhava in the extensive life of Ye shes mtsho rgyal  -- Jue Liang -- Part Three: Padmasambhava : other aspects.; title: Padmasambhava and his legacy : Sa skya perspectives  -- Lama Jampa Thaye -- the significance of Padmasambhava in the bcud len Tradition / -- Jamyang Oliphant; title: Historicism, philology, and the state-building in 17th-century Tibet : observations apropos of a text-critical biography of Padmasambhava  -- James Gentry; title: The social dimension of high deity worship : Padmasambhava tsechu worship in Tibetan tantrist ritual culture -- Nicolas Sihlé.