Padmasambhava
The Gradual Path of the Wisdom Essence (Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo)
Traditional attribution
The Gradual Path of the Wisdom Essence (Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo)
ལམ་རིམ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྙིང་པོ། (lam rim ye shes snying po)
A root text in verse covering the whole Vajrayāna path, from the preliminary practices to the Great Perfection, in the form of a Nyingma lamrim. It belongs to the cycle 'Dispeller of All Obstacles, the Guru's Heart Practice' (thugs sgrub bar chad kun sel) and was commented on by Jamgön Kongtrul under the title 'Light of Wisdom'.
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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 in the nineteenth century by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa (1829–1870).
Editions and translations
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English
Padmasambhava
The Light of Wisdom, vol. I
The Conscious LibraryThe Light of Wisdom, vol. I
Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2013
Translation: Erik Pema Kunsang
ISBN 9789627341932
Con el comentario de Jamgön Kongtrul; vol. II: 9789627341864.
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 Prayer in Seven Chapters (Le'u Dünma) · 1350
- The Seven-Line Prayer
- The Fivefold Chronicles (Kathang Denga) · 1350
- Gathering of the Sugatas of the Eight Commands (Kagye Deshek Düpa) · 1150
- The Great Treasury of Precious Termas (Rinchen Terdzö) · 1880
Sources
- Wikipedia (en). «Padmasambhava». Usada como índice de fuentes y bibliografía secundaria (Doney 2014, 2015; Dalton 2004; Hirshberg 2016); contrastada con p2–p5.
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