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Buddhist : Tibetan
8th Century

About Yeshe Tsogyel

Timeline (8th Century)

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English version by
Tarthang Tulku

This self-sufficient black lady has shaken things up

Themes
  Pain and Wounding
  Sound
  Trembling
  Womb
 

 

Recommended Books

Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples, by Padmasambhava
Lady of the Lotus-Born: The Life and Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal, by Gyalwa Changchub / N Nyingpo
The Lotus-Born: The Life Story of Padmasambhava, by Yeshe Tsogyal
The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone
Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel, by Keith Dowman / Eva Van Dam

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Listen, faithful Tibetans!
I am merging with the fundamental, the ground of all that is---
physical pain and suffering are disappearing....

The son, the inner elements of my body,
is reuniting with the mother, the outer elements.
Her physical remains will disappear into earth and stone.

The compassion of the Guru has never left me;
his manifestations fill all the world and call out to welcome me.

This wild lady has done everything;
Many times have I come and gone, but now, no longer.
I am a Tibetan wife sent back to her family.
I shall now appear as the Queen, the All-good, the Dharmakaya.

This self-sufficient black lady
has shaken things up far and wide;
now the shaking will carry me away into the southwest.

I have finished with intrigues,
with the fervent cascades of schemes and deceptions;
I am winding my way into the expanse of the Dharma.

I have mourned many men of Tibet who have left me behind---
but now I am the one who will go to the land of the Buddhas.

 

 

 

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