Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Chapters: Guanyin, Bodhisattva, Shantideva, Guan Yu, Padmasambhava, Maitreya, Tara, Avalokitesvara, Ksitigarbha, Vajrapani, Thang Tong Gyalpo, Eighteen Arhats, Vasudhara, Vajrasattva, Milarepa, Manjusri, Samantabhadra, Karma Kagyu, Naropa, Budai, Nio, Kukuraja, Sitatapatra, Cundi, Skanda, Tilopa, List of bodhisattvas, Marpa Lotsawa, Akasagarbha, Visistacaritra, Mahasthamaprapta, Sarvanivarana-Vishkambhin, Thirteen Buddhas, Bhaishajyaraja, Suryaprabha, Vajraparamita, Candraprabha, Mahapratisara, Supushpachandra. Excerpt: Padmasambhava, (Sanskrit Padmakara; Tib., Pemajungné; Wyl pad+ma 'byung gnas); Mongolian, lovon Badmajunai, Chinese: (pinyin: Liánhuasheng), Means The Lotus Born, was a sage guru from Oiyana (modern Swat) who is said to have transmitted Vajrayana Buddhism to Bhutan and Tibet and neighbouring countries in the 8th century. In those lands he is better known as Guru Rinpoche ("Precious Guru") or Lopon Rinpoche, or, simply, Padum in Tibet, where followers of the Nyingma school regard him as the second Buddha. He said: "My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra (Sanskrit; Tib. ). My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri (Sanskrit; Tib. ). I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I consume concepts of duality as my diet. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times." His Pureland Paradise is Zangdok Palri (the Copper-coloured Mountain). He is further considered an emanation of Buddha Amitabha and traditionally even venerated as "a second Buddha". He was born into a Brahmin family of Northwest India. Statue of Guru Rinpoche as the patron saint of Sikkim, India in Namchi. Statue of Princess Mandarava at Lake Rewalsar.According to tradition, Padmasambhava was incarnated as an eight-year-old child appearing in a lotus blossom floating in Lake Dhanakosha, in the kingdom of Oiyana, traditionally identified with the Swat Valley of South Asia in present-day Pakistan. His special nature was recognized by the childless local king of Oiyana and was chosen to take over the kingdom but he left Oiyana for Northern parts of India. In Rewalsar, known as Tso Pema in Tibetan, he secretly taught tantric teachings to Mandarava who was the local king's daughter. The king found out and tried to burn him but it is believed when the smoke cleared he was intact and in meditation. The k

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