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Mandarava (also known as Pandaravasini) was, along with Yeshe Tsogyal, one of the two principal consorts of great 8th-century Indian Vajrayana Master Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), a founder-figure of Tibetan Buddhism. Mandarava is considered to be a female guru-deity in Tantric Buddhism or Vajrayana.
Guru Padmasambhava
Guru Padmasambhava ("Born from a Lotus") also known as Guru Rinpoche (Precious Guru) was a tantric Buddhist vajra master from India who taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries). According to some early Tibetan sources like the Testament of Ba, he came to Tibet in the 8th century and helped construct Samye Monastery, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
Because of his role in the founding of Samye monastery, the first monastery in Tibet, Padmasambhava is regarded as the founder of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Padmasambhava's activities in the Tibet include the practice of tantric rituals to increase the life of the king as well as initiating king Trisong Detsen into tantric rites.
The Vajra Guru mantra is:
Om ah hum vajra guru padma siddhi hum
Height: 22cm Weight : 1.3kg Width : 13cm
Mandarava
According to one tradition, Mandarava was born to Vihardhara, the King of Zahor, and his wife the Queen Mohauki. Her birth was said to be accompanied by miraculous signs and her renunciation and spiritual inclination were apparent at an early age. Like many other accomplished yoginis, Mandarava was pressured to accept an arranged marriage instead of practicing the dharma. This theme is common to the lives of Yeshe Tsogyal, among others. However Padmasambhava recognised her immediately as being ready for the dharma in the secret Dzogchen. It was during a spiritual retreat with many of the women she converted to Buddhism, that Mandarava and her retinue met Padmasambhava.
Mandarava realized her calling to spread the Dharma with Padmasambhava, thereby fulfilling the prediction of her birth that she was a dakini. Thus, at 16 years of age, Mandarava became the first of Padmasambhava's five historical spiritual consorts and together they practiced at Maratika (known as Haleshi in the local dialect), the Cave of Bringing Death to an End. Maratika Cave, and later Maratika Monastery, is located in Nepal. Both Mandarava and Padmasambhava achieved the unified vajra body on the vidyadhara level of mastery and realised some of the practices of long life or longevity that were concealed in the Maratika Cave as terma by 'Dakini Sangwa', the terma constituted the teachings of Buddha Amitabh. Later, while Padmasambhava continued to spread the teachings throughout the HImalayan region, Mandarava remained in India.
Height : 12cm Weight : 0.6kg Width : 12cm
Yeshe Tsogyal
Yeshe Tsogyal also known as "knowledge Lake Empress", or by her clan name "Lady Kharchen", attained enlightenment in her lifetime and is considered the Mother of Tibetan Buddhism. Yeshe Tsogyal is the highest woman in the Nyingma Vajrayana lineage. Some sources say she, as Princess of Karchen, was either a wife or consort of Tri Songdetsen, emperor of Tibet, when she began studying Buddhism with Padmasambhava, who became her main Karmamudra consort. Padmasambhava is a founder-figure of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, and is considered as a second buddha of our era. She is known to have revealed terma with Padmasambhava and was also the main scribe for these terma. Later, Yeshe Tsogyal also hid many of Padmasambhava's terma on her own, under the instructions of Padmasambhava for future generations.
Height : 12cm Weight : 0.6kg Width : 11cm
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