Padmasambhava

Padmasambhava (of the Sanskrit, born from the lotus ) is a Buddhist Master 8th century, originating in the Cachemire or Kabul, and founder of the Himalayan Buddhism tantric. With the Bhutan and the Tibet, where the members of the school Nyingma regard it as the 2nd Bouddha, it is more known under the name of Guru Rinpoché (" invaluable maître"). Padmasambhava is not only the founder of Buddhism to the Tibet, it is also at the origin of the tradition Terma or " Treasuries spirituels" transmitted by those which discover them, the Tertön S of the school Nyingmapa. On several occasions in its lesson Padmasambhava prophesied the arrival with the Tibet Karmapa S of the school Kagyu.

According to the tradition, Padmasambhava appeared on ground incarnated in a 8 year old child in a flower of lotus (from where the name Sanskrit of Padmasambhava) floating on the Lac Dhanakosha, located the Gandhara close to the current border enters the Afghanistan and the Pakistan. Indrabhûti, king d' Oddiyana, would be his father or would have recognized it like heir. According to the tradition, Padmasambhava, have like enthusiastic disciple an Indian princess, Mandarava. The king his father was furious and decided to burn it; but the ascetic survived healthy and except, and from roughing-hew a lake emerged which was called Rewalsar or Tsopéma. Object of veneration the place is thus crowned and attracts the pilgrimages. Around the lake, of rather modest size, rises various temples. Shown murder of a malfaisant minister, Padmasambhava is banished court and then chooses food - as Shiva - in the cemeteries and to compel itself with the asceticism and the practice of the Yoga. He would have also studied with Nâlandâ with the Bihâr the lesson of Shantarâkshita. The capacity of Padmasambhava to memorize and include/understand the texts esoteric after only one listening establishes its reputation as Master among the Masters.

Always according to the tradition, its fame reaches then Tibet and Trisong Detsen, the sovereign 38e of the country, whose kingdom is attacked by deities malfaisantes of the mountain. It invites it towards 750 to use its capacities to subject them in accordance with the principles tantric S, by reorientating them towards the practice of the Dharma instead of eliminating them. It then founds in Tibet the first monastery of the country, Samye Gompa, carries out the initiation of the first monks and spreads in the people the tantric practice of Buddhism. With the Tibet, one to him allots 25 or 26 direct disciples, all equipped with extraordinary capacities according to the texts Tibetans. Shortly after its arrival with the Tibet, the king Trisong Detsen offered to him in present his wife, Yeshe Tsogyal, married two years earlier. This act of generosity made scandal and caused the anger of the ministers remained faithful to the religion Bön. The couple had to flee in Tibrom, in a cave located at the North-East of Lhassa, until the spirits calmed down.

With the Bhutan, it is associated with the famous monastery of Taktshang or “nest of the tiger” built at the top of a cliff overhanging of 500 m the valley of Paro. It would have come there, according to the tradition, since the Tibet on the back of its shakti, the dâkinî Yeshe Tsogyal, which it transformed into flying tiger-cat to carry out this voyage.

In the history of the Sikkim the passage of the Indian Master Padmasambhava is indicated to be itself produced at the 9th century. It is reported that Padmasambhava would have there blesses the ground, introduces Buddhism and announced the era of the monarchy which will arrive the centuries later.

In India, one knows it under the names of Padmâkara , Padmavajra , Suroruha and Vararuchi .

Statues representing Padmasambhava

The statues representing Padmasambhava contain sometimes relics and texts of the dharma in particular when they were devoted by of the LAMA.

In May 2007, the Center Tibetan for the Human rights and the Democracy (TCHRD) affirms that the Chinese armed police force demolished a colossal statue of Padmasambhava to the monastery of Samye and that the blocks of the destruction of the statue were transported in an unknown place. The statue had been built with the funds of liberally given by two impassioned Chinese of the industrialized city of the continent of Guangzhou in the province of Guangdong.

Mantra

Short will mantra

OM ĀH HŪM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HŪM

Length will mantra

OM ĀH HŪM VAJRA GURU PADMA TÖ TRENG TSAL VAJRA SAMAYA DZA SIDDHI PALA HŪM ĀH

Prayer in 7 worms

Phonetics:
HŪM
ORGYEN YUL GYI NUB CHANG TSAM
PÉMA KESAR DONGPO
YA TSEN CHOG GI NGÖ DRUP NYÉ
PÉMA JUNG BORN SHYÉ KNOWN DRAK
KHOR OF KHANDRO MANG PÖ KOR
KHYÉ KYI I KNOWN DAK DRUP KYI
CHIN GYI LAP CHIR SHEK KNOWN GROUND
GURU PEMA SIDDHI HŪM

Translation (Rigpa, 2005):
HŪM
Aux north-western borders of the country of Oddiyâna,
In the middle of a flower of lotus,
Doué of marvellous and supreme acomplissement,
Tu known under the name of “were born from the lotus”
Une assembled many dâkinî surrounds you;
Je am you in order to achieve your nature;
Je requests some from you: come to bless me your grace!
GURU PEMA SIDDHI HŪM

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