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The Chronicle of Padma (Padma Kathang)
པདམ་བཀའི་ཐང་ཡིག། (padma bka'i thang yig)
A verse biography of Padmasambhava's whole life: birth from a lotus in Lake Dhanakośa, youth as prince of Oḍḍiyāna, exile, years as a yogi in the charnel grounds, the stay in Tibet and the departure for the land of the rākṣasas. It fixed the 'eleven deeds' and the canonical form of the legend, and was for centuries the most widely circulated book about him. It presents itself as dictated by the master himself to Yeshe Tsogyal.
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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 1352 by Orgyen Lingpa (1323–c. 1360) at Yarlung Shelgyi Drak.
Editions and translations
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English
The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava (Padma bKa'i Thang), 2 vols.
Dharma Publishing, 1978
Translation: Kenneth Douglas y Gwendolyn Bays (desde la versión francesa de G.-C. Toussaint)
ISBN 9780913546192
Reed. 2007: 9780898004229.
Français
Padmasambhava
Le Dict de Padma (Padma thang yig)
The Conscious LibraryLe Dict de Padma (Padma thang yig)
Ernest Leroux, 1933
Translation: Gustave-Charles Toussaint
Primera traducción occidental completa.
Other works by Padmasambhava
- The Great Liberation by Hearing in the Intermediate State (Bardo Thödol, 'Tibetan Book of the Dead') · 1350
- 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
- 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
- Yeshe Tsogyal (atrib.); Orgyen Lingpa (revelador). The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava (Padma bKa'i Thang). Trad. Kenneth Douglas y Gwendolyn Bays a partir de la versión francesa de Gustave-Charles Toussaint (Le Dict de Padma, París: Leroux, 1933). 2 vols. Emeryville (CA): Dharma Publishing, 1978. ISBN 9780913546192.
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