Sky Dancer
Critical Reviews
'Among the great female adepts of Tibetan Tantra, Yeshe Tsogyel is foremost, and this masterpiece of Tibetan biographical literature conveys the meaning of her sublime apocalyptic life with lyrical beauty. Yeshe Tsogyel was an eighth century Tibetan princess who became the tantric consort of Tibet's Great Guru Padmasambhava. Her exemplary life story describes the ideal path of a yogini (a female practitioner) and in so far as it provides a blueprint for every woman who aspires to Buddhahood, Sky Danceris one of the most important translations to be made from the Tibetan. It describes her motivation, the initiations taken from the Guru, her path of practice, her tribulations and the impediments in meditation practice, and the signs of her success in realisation of her buddha nature. 'Skydancer' is a translation of the Tibetan word 'Khandroma' (dakini), 'female buddha'. Many of the songs provide secret precepts given to her by her teachers and by her to her disciples. These oral instructions belonging to the supreme path of tantra (anuttara-yoga-tantra) and Dzokchen provide the core of the biography.
'This work is important not only for its pro
Secret Symbolic Biography of the Queen of Dakinis, Yeshe Tsogyal
མཁའ་འགྲོའི་གཙོ་མོ་ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ་གྱི་ཐུན་མིན་ནང་གི་བརྡ་དོན་གསང་བའི་རྣམ་ཐར་ཆེན་མོ་བཞུགས་སོ༔
mkha' 'gro'i gtso mo ye shes mtsho rgyal gyi thun min nang gi brda don gsang ba'i rnam thar chen mo
" OM SVASTI
Dharmakaya - Great Mother Prajnaparamita, Samantabhadri;
Sambhogakaya - Vajravarahi endowed with fivefold certainty;
Nirmanakaya - the twenty-one emanations of Noble Tara;
I pay homage to the magical emanation (of the three kayas) - Yeshe Tsogyal."Khenchen Palden Sherab
This secret biography of Yeshe Tsogyal is a terma teaching, narrated and concealed by Yeshe Tsogyal herself at the request of Nub Sangye Yeshe, one of the twenty-five close disciples of Padmasambhava. It was revealed by Terton Drime Kunga (dri med kun dga'), an emanation of Sangye Yeshe who appeared in Central Tibet in 14th century.
This extraordinary life-story is profound and symbolic, focusing on inner experiences and visions rather than conventional sequence of events.
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Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel
according to the Aro gTér Lineage
The greatest inspiration and rôle model for women and teacher for men, in terms of Tibetan Buddhism, is the enlightened yogini Yeshé Tsogyel (ye-shes mTsho-rGyal). Yeshé means ‘primordial wisdom’, and Tsogyel means ‘queen of the ocean-like quality of Mind’. She is the female Buddha of the Nyingma tradition. As a historical figure she is the mother of all Nyingma lineages. Yeshé Tsogyel, together with her incarnations and emanations, is an inspiration to women as a rôle model, and to men as a teacher.
Yeshé Tsogyel’s gaze is at once soft and penetrating; compassionate yet playfully wrathful, in token of her ability to infuse all circumstances with vivid opportunities for realisation. Her wide open eyes sparkle with the electricity of existence and non-existence and communicate the immanence of liberation for all yogis and yoginis. Her strong laughter overpowers all dualistic conceptions. She wears the six human-bone cemetery ornaments to show that she has accomplished the six Tantric vehicles. She wears the conch yogini earrings,
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