Traditional attribution
The Self-Liberation of the Intention of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities (Karma Lingpa's cycle)
ཟབ་ཆོས་ཞི་ཁྲོ་དགོངས་པ་རང་གྲོལ། (zab chos zhi khro dgongs pa rang grol)
The complete terma cycle to which the Bardo Thödol belongs: purification rituals, practices of the hundred peaceful and wrathful deities, instructions on the six intermediate states and texts of introduction to the nature of mind. It was transmitted in different compilations and its present form was fixed between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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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 Karma Lingpa; Bryan Cuevas has reconstructed its textual history.
Editions and translations
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English
Natural Liberation: Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos
Wisdom Publications, 1997
Translation: B. Alan Wallace (comentario de Gyatrul Rinpoche)
ISBN 9780861711314
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
- 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
- Cuevas, Bryan J. The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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