Yeshe Tsogyal is the highest woman in the Nyingma Vajrayana lineage.
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12 Facts About Yeshe Tsogyal
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Yeshe Tsogyal is known to have revealed terma with Padmasambhava and was the main scribe for these terma.
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Later, Yeshe Tsogyal hid many of Padmasambhava's terma on her own, under the instructions of Padmasambhava for future generations.
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Yeshe Tsogyal lived for approximately 99 years and is a preeminent figure in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism and a role model for contemporary spiritual practitioners.
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Yeshe Tsogyal felt so strongly about this, that she ran away and had to be brought back by force.
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Yeshe Tsogyal was given by Tri Songdetsen to Padmasambhava as an offering.
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Yeshe Tsogyal is known to have spent many years in isolated meditation retreat.
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Yeshe Tsogyal accomplished several different cycles of tantric spiritual practices that she received from Padmasambhava and various wisdom beings including the practices of Vajrakilaya, Zhitro, tummo, and karmamudra practice.
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Example, one scholar relates how Yeshe Tsogyal received the empowerment to practice Zhitro from a wisdom being, a vidyadhara:.
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At the time of her death, Yeshe Tsogyal is known to have had eleven main students, both women and men.
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Yeshe Tsogyal is considered a manifestation of the Bodhisattva Tara.
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Yeshe Tsogyal is considered to be an emanation of Samantabhadri, Prajnaparamita, and Vajrayogini.
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