Indian Bst. of the eighth century who visited Tibet at the invitation of the reigning king, and taught a variety of Bst. principles. He is credited with founding the Nyingma-pa School, but there is at present no evidence of its existence prior to the...

(‘he who is born from the lotus’) A Buddhist teacher (guru) from north India who spread Tantric Buddhism in Tibet in the eighth century AD. Tradition makes him out to have appeared in a lotus blossom, having been created by →...

PADMASAMBHAVA, an Indian Tantric adept of the eighth century who became a foremost Tibetan cultural hero, is the subject of greatly elaborated legends and serves as the eponymous source of much of the enormous corpus of revelatory textual...

Padmasambhava statue near Kullu, India Padmasambhava (also Padmakara or Padma Raja; earlier - Saroruha Vajra or simply Saroruha) (Ch: 蓮華生上師, Pinyin: Lian Hua Sheng Shang Shi; Tib: Pema Jungne, Wylie: padma 'byung gnas), in Sanskrit...

This article offers some new evidence on Padmasambhava, the Indian master who, according to legend, was instrumental in establishing Buddhism in Tibet. In the course of my research on tantra in the Tibetan manuscripts discovered near Dunhuang, I have found two passages relating...

Chinese authorities have demolished a statue of a Buddhist master at Tibet's oldest monastery, an activist group said Friday, the latest act in what critics say is an effort by Beijing to dilute Tibet's unique Buddhist culture.International Campaign for Tibet blamed the mid-May demolition of...