Item: Padmasambhava - (Main Form)

Tibetan: པད་མ་འབྱུང་གནས། Chinese: 莲花生大士

(item no. 51896)

Origin Location	Tibet
Date Range	1800 - 1899
Lineages	Nyingma and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Collection	Shechen Archives - photographs

Classification: Deity

Appearance: King

Gender: Male

TBRC: bdr:P4956

Interpretation / Description

Padmasambhava with various deities from the Lama Gongdu Cycle of Terma (Revealed Treasure) Teachings. Sanggye Lingpa (1340-1396) discovered the Middling Collection of Precepts, the Gathering of the Guru's Intention (Tibetan: ka du bar wa la ma gong pa du pa) in the great cave of Puri Rinchen Barwa in the year 1364.

Jeff Watt, 12-2009