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Image credit: himalayanart. Click on image to enlarge. Despite the many layers of legend that have accreted around Padmasambhava, scholars generally agree that a renowned Indian tantric master by that name did visit and teach in Tibet in the late eighth century. During this same period, he is also said to have tamed four troublesome Se bse goddesses and bestowed upon them new Buddhist names.

On gaining accomplishment in the practices of Vajrakila, the master then performed a series of miracles , including the magical diversion of a stream for irrigation purposes.

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Now led by Dorje Kundrakma rdo rje kun grags ma , formerly named Kongla Demo rkong la de mo , the Buddhist mothers are finally supplicated for their assistance. Also possibly significant is the Dunhuang manuscript IOL Tib J , which contains a text on the nine vehicles theg pa dgu. Thus, for example, the ideal Kriya-tantra practitioner meditates in an Asura cave, attains a vision of his deity, reveals a new stream, and so on.

Such details suggest that the biographies of this master were woven from historical fact as well as traditional memes and narrative themes. Another depiction of Padmasambhava. Both the commentary and its tantra are preserved in later canonical collections, but only in the Dunhuang version are their connections to Padmasambhava so clearly spelled out; only there do several interlinear notes appear to suggest that the commentary was written by none other than Padmasambhava.

Some scholars, it should be observed, have proposed that these notes might be interpreted to mean that the eighth-century master wrote the tantra itself, but a more straightforward interpretation would suggest the commentary.