Lady of Kharchen - Yeshe Tsogyal

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Lady Kharchen - Yeshe Tsogyal 

In 777CE Guru Rinpoche closest disciple Yeshe Tsogyal  was born as a princess in the clan of Kharchen Tibet,  Yeshe Tsogyal (also known as "Victorious Ocean of Wisdom or by her Sanskrit name Jnanasagara "Wisdom Ocean" or by her clan name of Lady of Kharchen, the title of Yeshe Tsogyal.  

Her spiritual inclinations were present from a very young age and Yeshe Tsogyal wanted to pursue a life of Dharma practice rather than marry. She felt so strongly about this, that she ran away and had to be brought back by force. At the age of sixteen, she was compelled into an unwanted arranged marriage with the then-King of Tibet, Trisong Detsen. 

It was after their marriage, the King Trisong Detsen invited Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava to come to Tibet from India and propagate the Buddhist teachings. Yeshe Tsogyal was given by the king Trisong Detsen to Padmasambhava as an offering. Padmasambhava freed Yeshe Tsogyal and she became Padmasambhava's main disciple. 

She specialized in the practice of Vajrakilaya and experienced visions of the deity and gained accomplishment. In Nepal,  Through the power of her unfailing memory, she collected all the teachings given by Guru Rinpoche in Tibet and concealed them as Terma. 

Terma is the Tibetan word and literally means " Hidden treasure of Tantric teachings" Yeshe Tsogyal also hid many of Guru Rinpoche's Terma on her own, under the instructions of Guru Rinpoche for future generations. 

Guru Rinpoche and his closest disciple Yeshe Tsogyal travelled all over Tibet and the Himalayas, and blessed and consecrated the entire land, especially “the twenty snow mountains of Ngari, the twenty-one Sadhana places of U and Tsang, the twenty-five great pilgrimage places of Dokham, the three hidden lands, five ravines, three valleys and one region.”

Guru Padmasambhava made many prophecies about the future, and together with Yeshe Tsogyal concealed countless terma teachings, in order to: prevent the destruction of the teachings of the secret Vajrayana; avoid corruption of the Vajrayana or its alteration by intellectuals; preserve the blessing; and benefit future followers. 

For each of these Terma treasures, he predicted the time of its revelation, the identity of the Revealer, and those who would receive and hold the teachings.

One of the very important Terma was discovered and revealed by Karma Lingpa and the discovered Terma which is well known in the world as the "Tibetan Book of the Dead". 

Yeshe Tsogyal she lived for approximately 99 years and according to the legend, at the end of her life,she vanished in a rainbow light and flew through the air and went directly to the pure land of the Copper-Coloued Mountain of Zangdokpalri.  Zangdokpalri is a glorious pure land  where Guru Rinpoche now dwells, said to be located in Ngayab Ling. 

Click here for the Tibetan Book of the Dead 

This Terma was written by Padmsambhava out of his great compassion for the living. He was saddened by people’s ignorance of life after death, thus trapped in the endless cycle of birth and death. 

This book provides detailed descriptions of the stages one’s spiritual body undergoes upon death to rebirth. Furthermore, it also contains specific instructions for how friends and relatives may assist their loved ones during this period and help their loved ones to achieve salvation or choose more wisely to achieve higher enlightenment in their rebirth.

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