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Padmasambhava: Names, Chronology & Life-story

Padmasambhava Names:

1. Padmakara
2. Shantarakshita
3. Dorje Dragpo Tsal
4. Shakya Sengge
5. Loden Chogse
6. Padma Totreng Tsal
7. Padma Raja
8. Powerful Garuda Youth
9. (Padmavajra, Saraha, Virupa, Dombhi Heruka, Kalacharya)
10. Nyima Ozer
11. Sengge Dradog
12. (King Ngonshe Chen, Yogi Tobden, Tapihritsa - Mongolia, China, Zhangzhung)
- In Tibet: bound the twelve Tenma, thirteen Gurlha and twenty-one Genyen
13.Dorje Drollo (at the 13 Tiger's Nests)
- taught the Twenty-five disciples, intermediate twenty-five disciples, later seventeen and twenty-one disciples. Eighty students achieved rainbow body at Yerpa, one hundred and eight meditators at Chuori, thirty tantriks at Yangdzong, fifty-five realized ones at Sheldrag, twenty-five dakini students and seven yoginis.
14. Drowa Kundrol (emanation at the time of Maitreya)