Biography of yeshe tsogyal by the artist
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Yeshe Tsogyal
Yeshe Tsogyal (Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ་, Wyl.ye shes mtsho rgyal) — the principal consort of Guru Padmasambhava. She was Vajravarahi in human form and also an emanation of Tara and Buddhalochana.
Biography
She was born as a princess in the clan of Kharchen[1]. According to some accounts her father was called Namkha Yeshe and her mother was Gewa Bum.[2] In other histories, such as the Zanglingma and the biography revealed by Taksham Nüden Dorje, her father is named as Kharchen Palgyi Wangchuk, who is otherwise said to have been her brother. Yet another version names her father as Tökar Lek and her mother as Gyalmo Tso.
She became the consort of King Trisong Detsen before being offered to Guru Rinpoche as a mandala offering during an empowerment. She specialized in the practice of Vajrakilaya and experienced visions of the deity and gained accomplishment. In Nepal, she paid a ransom for Acharya Salé and took him as her spiritual consort. Th
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Dri med kun dga. N.d. Mkha' 'gro ma'i bka' chen gyi thim yig dang mkha' 'gro mtsho rgyal gyi skyes rabs le'u bdun pa.TBRC W8LS19942.
Drime Kunga and Yeshe Tsogyel. 2017.The Life and Visions of Yeshe Tsogyal: The Autobiography of the Great Wisdom Queen. Chonyi Drolma, translator. Boulder: Snow Lion.
Gyatso, Janet. 2006. "A Partial Genealogy of the Lifestory of Ye shes mtsho rgyal." Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, no. 2, pp. 1-27.
'Jam mgon kong sprul. 2007 (c. 1887) Dbyangs can sprul pa ye shes mtsho rgyal. In Zab mo'i gter dang gter ston grub thob ji ltar byon pa'i lo rgyus mdor bsdus bkod pa rin chen bai DU r.ya'i 'phreng ba, pp. 20a-21a. Delhi: Shechen publications. TBRC W1KG14.
Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye. 2011. The One Hundred Tertons. Yeshe Gyamtso, translator. Woodstock: KTD Publications, pp. 44-45.
Stag sham nus ldan rdo rje. 1989 (17th century). Bod kyi jo mo ye shes mtsho rgyal gyi mdzad tshul rnam par thar pa gab p • 'Among the great female adepts of Tibetan Tantra, Yeshe Tsogyel fryst vatten 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 hona practitioner) and in so far as it provides a blåkopia 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 natur. '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 Sky Dancer
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