The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava

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Throughout this vast panorama of the lands, the peoples, and the spirituality of a magical, mysterious age radiates the beauty, the power, and the blessing of the precious master from Uddiyana, the second Buddha, Padmasambhava. With the power of full knowledge and with the power of the Tutelary Divinities, he invested him as the Essence Body with the eight secret forms. This volume will be valuable to all, no matter the spiritual background of the reader or the kind of problems that have led them to ask that ageless question: How can I achieve happiness?

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In the dharmakāya realm of ‘Luminous Vajra Essence’, he has been naturally enlightened within primordial purity — the ground of liberation — since the very beginning. Lama Zopa Rinpoche shows us how we can use our anxiety as a high-octane fuel to really live what’s most important.Each of the pores in his body held a billion realms and in each realm there were a billion world systems.

All those close to us are obstacles, so do not remain in the land of your father, and when you leave, go alone! It is clear, then, that the Guru stayed in Tibet for forty-eight years while the king was alive and seven years and six months afterwards.This first volume in the House of Adzom series centers on Longchenpa’s seven trainings in bodhicitta, our awakened mind, the ultimate purpose of our practice and training. Regarding him as the answer to his prayers, the king took him home to the royal palace, where he was given the name Padmākara, ‘Lotus-Born’, as well as Tsokyé Dorjé, ‘Lake-Born Vajra’.

Even the great bodhisattvas are incapable of fully telling the story of his life and liberation, yet I shall nonetheless give a brief outline in the pages that follow. At this, Shing Cha Chen had no choice but to pursue the invaders back to Tibet, where Guru Rinpoche was already awaiting their arrival.This view entails negating inherent existence while also being able to establish conventional existence: emptiness does not mean nothingness. All around were inspired by faith, and thus it was that the Guru and his consort caused the kingdom to embrace the Dharma, establishing its people in the state that is beyond falling back into saṃsāra. For each of these hidden treasures, Padmākara predicted the time of disclosure, the person who would reveal the treasure, and the destined recipients who would hold the teachings. The richly symbolic account in 108 cantos sets forth the stages of his life, which reveal the stages of the path to enlightenment.