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PADMASAMBHAVADocumented in the Sutra of Final Nirvana and in other prophecies, Sakyamuni Buddha announced that 12 years after his parinirvana he would reappear through an immaculate birth in the country of Oddiyana, bearing the name Padmasambhava, and spread extensively the teachings of the tantras. This rebirth came in the form of an eight-year-old child who appeared miraculously upon a lotus, at Danakosha Lake in Oddiyana. Padmasambhava is popularly known as Guru Rinpoche, the ‘Precious Master.’ He was invited to Tibet by King Trisong Detsen (arriving in 817ce) to bring peace to the war torn lands of Tibet. His mastery and teachings created the foundation for the spread of Buddhism in Tibet. In 762 A.D., he founded Samye, Tibet’s first monastery. Miraculously, Guru Rinpoche left his signature throughout the Himalayan ranges in and around the many caves he used for meditation. At these sites one can still see handprints and footprints that he impressed into solid rock, testimony to the extraordinary power this fully accomplished tantric master held over the external and internal elements. He is also well known as the creator of The Tibetan book of the Dead. It is believed that he stayed in Tibet for approximately 55 years, doing retreats in solitary places and caves all over the Himalayas and giving innumerable teachings and transmissions of tantras. He had twenty-five main disciples. Some, such as his consort Yeshe Tsogyal, became renowned for their spiritual attainments. From this core group emerged the first seven Tibetan Buddhist monks. In Tibet and Nepal and a variety of other locations, Guru Padmasambhava, often assisted by Yeshe Tsogyal, hid countless teachings as treasures, in the forms of scriptures, images, transmissions and ritual objects, to be revealed at appropriate times in the future. These hidden treasures are known as Termas.
It is said that the master Padmasambhava left Tibet for the mystic ‘Copper-colored Mountain’, where he still resides. He is said to remain, in the 'immortal rainbow-body of great transference’ (he can be summoned thru his powerful mantra of invocation:
OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM
Upon leaving, having exhorted the people to aspire to Buddhahood, he announce that he would return to remove the suffering of the people of the world on the tenth day of every moon but especially on the tenth day of the monkey month of each year.
I have discovered thru research that according to the Tibetan Lunar Calendar, the tenth day of the monkey month in 2001 was June 30th, (exactly the time of the initiations mentioned above) In 2003 it occurs on July 9th and in 2004, on June 22nd …where will you be then? For more info on The Life of Padmasambhava and Main Form with Portraits
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