Padmasambhava
The Fivefold Chronicles (Kathang Denga)
Traditional attribution
The Fivefold Chronicles (Kathang Denga)
བཀའ་ཐང་སྡེ་ལྔ། (bka' thang sde lnga)
Five revealed chronicles narrating the imperial period from different perspectives: kings, queens, ministers, translators and scholars, and gods and demons. They mix legend, polemic and early material (including Chinese Chan texts in the ministers' chronicle) and are an essential source for Tibetan memory of Padmasambhava's era.
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Authorship note
A 'treasure' text (gter ma): Nyingma tradition holds that Padmasambhava taught it in the eighth century, that Yeshe Tsogyal wrote it down in code and that it was hidden to be revealed centuries later by a discoverer (gter ston). For historical criticism it is a composition from the revealer's period. Revealed by Orgyen Lingpa (1323–c. 1360).
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Deutsch
Padmasambhava
Der Roman einer tibetischen Königin (bTsun-mo bka'-thang)
The Conscious LibraryDer Roman einer tibetischen Königin (bTsun-mo bka'-thang)
Otto Harrassowitz, 1911
Translation: Berthold Laufer
Traducción de la crónica de las reinas.
Other works by Padmasambhava
- The Great Liberation by Hearing in the Intermediate State (Bardo Thödol, 'Tibetan Book of the Dead') · 1350
- The Chronicle of Padma (Padma Kathang) · 1352
- The Copper Island (Zangling ma): Life of Padmasambhava · 1150
- Garland of Views: An Essential Instruction · 800
- The Self-Liberation of the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities (Karma Lingpa's cycle) · 1350
- Self-Liberation through Seeing with Naked Awareness · 1350
- Dakini Teachings: Padmasambhava's Advice to Yeshe Tsogyal · 1150
- Advice from the Lotus-Born (Zhal gdams)
- The Gradual Path of the Wisdom Essence (Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo) · 1856
- The Prayer in Seven Chapters (Le'u Dünma) · 1350
- The Seven-Line Prayer
- Gathering of the Sugatas of the Eight Commands (Kagye Deshek Düpa) · 1150
- The Great Treasury of Precious Termas (Rinchen Terdzö) · 1880
Sources
- Laufer, Berthold. Der Roman einer tibetischen Königin (bTsun-mo bka'-thang). Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1911.
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