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The '''[[Eight Manifestations of Guru Rinpoche]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་མཚན་བརྒྱད་]]}}, ''[[guru tsen gyé]]''; Wyl. ''[[gu ru mtshan brgyad]]'') are the eight principal [[forms]] assumed by [[Guru Rinpoche]] at different points in his [[life]]:
 
The '''[[Eight Manifestations of Guru Rinpoche]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་མཚན་བརྒྱད་]]}}, ''[[guru tsen gyé]]''; Wyl. ''[[gu ru mtshan brgyad]]'') are the eight principal [[forms]] assumed by [[Guru Rinpoche]] at different points in his [[life]]:
  
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#[[Guru Shakya Sengé]] ([[ordination]]), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་ཤཱཀྱ་སེང་གེ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gu ru shAkya seng ge]]''  
 
#[[Guru Shakya Sengé]] ([[ordination]]), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་ཤཱཀྱ་སེང་གེ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gu ru shAkya seng ge]]''  
 
#[[Guru Nyima Özer]] (subjugating demonic spirits), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་ཉི་མ་འོད་ཟེར་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gu ru nyi ma 'od zer]]''
 
#[[Guru Nyima Özer]] (subjugating demonic spirits), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་ཉི་མ་འོད་ཟེར་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gu ru nyi ma 'od zer]]''
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#[[Guru Padmasambhava]] (establishing Buddhism in Tibet), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་]]}}, ''[[Guru Pema Jungné'', Wyl. ''[[gu ru pad+ma 'byung gnas]]''
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#[[Guru Padmasambhava]] (establishing Buddhism in Tibet), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་]]}}, ''[[Guru Pema Jungné]]'', Wyl. ''[[gu ru pad+ma 'byung gnas]]''
 
#[[Guru Loden Choksé]] (mastery of the teachings), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་བློ་ལྡན་མཆོག་སྲེད་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gu ru blo ldan mchog sred]]''
 
#[[Guru Loden Choksé]] (mastery of the teachings), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་བློ་ལྡན་མཆོག་སྲེད་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gu ru blo ldan mchog sred]]''
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#[[Guru Pema Gyalpo]] (kingship), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་པདྨ་རྒྱལ་པོ་]]}}, Wyl. ''{{BigTibetan|[[gu ru padma rgyal}} po]]''
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#[[Guru Pema Gyalpo]] (kingship), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་པདྨ་རྒྱལ་པོ་]]}}, ''[[gu ru padma rgyal po]]''
 
#[[Guru Sengé Dradrok]] subjugation of non-buddhists), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་སེང་གེ་སྒྲ་སྒྲོག་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gu ru seng ge sgra sgrog]]''  
 
#[[Guru Sengé Dradrok]] subjugation of non-buddhists), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་སེང་གེ་སྒྲ་སྒྲོག་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gu ru seng ge sgra sgrog]]''  
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#[[Guru Dorje Drolö]] (concealing [[terma]], [[binding spirits under oath]]), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲོ་ལོད་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gu ru rdo rje gro lod]]''  
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#[[Guru Dorje Drolö]] (concealing [[terma]], (binding spirits under oath), Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གུ་རུ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲོ་ལོད་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gu ru rdo rje gro lod]]''  
  
 
The [[Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava]] do not depict different [[Padmasambhavas]], but reflect his ability to appear according to different needs and demands. In fact, they are called in [[Tibetan]] ''[[Guru Tsen Gyé]]'', the [[eight ‘names’ of the Guru]]; each [[manifestation]] demonstrates a different [[principle]] that unveils the innermost [[nature of mind]]. As [[Guru Rinpoche]] said: “[[Mind]] itself is [[Padmasambhava]]; there is no practice or [[meditation]] apart from that.”<ref>Adapted from [[Dzogchen]] & [[Padmasambhava]]</ref>
 
The [[Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava]] do not depict different [[Padmasambhavas]], but reflect his ability to appear according to different needs and demands. In fact, they are called in [[Tibetan]] ''[[Guru Tsen Gyé]]'', the [[eight ‘names’ of the Guru]]; each [[manifestation]] demonstrates a different [[principle]] that unveils the innermost [[nature of mind]]. As [[Guru Rinpoche]] said: “[[Mind]] itself is [[Padmasambhava]]; there is no practice or [[meditation]] apart from that.”<ref>Adapted from [[Dzogchen]] & [[Padmasambhava]]</ref>
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The Eight Manifestations of Guru Rinpoche (Tib. གུ་རུ་མཚན་བརྒྱད་, guru tsen gyé; Wyl. gu ru mtshan brgyad) are the eight principal forms assumed by Guru Rinpoche at different points in his life:

  1. Guru Tsokyé Dorje (birth), Tib. གུ་རུ་མཚོ་སྐྱེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wyl. gu ru mtsho skyes rdo rje
  2. Guru Shakya Sengé (ordination), Tib. གུ་རུ་ཤཱཀྱ་སེང་གེ་, Wyl. gu ru shAkya seng ge
  3. Guru Nyima Özer (subjugating demonic spirits), Tib. གུ་རུ་ཉི་མ་འོད་ཟེར་, Wyl. gu ru nyi ma 'od zer
  4. Guru Padmasambhava (establishing Buddhism in Tibet), Tib. གུ་རུ་པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་, Guru Pema Jungné, Wyl. gu ru pad+ma 'byung gnas
  5. Guru Loden Choksé (mastery of the teachings), Tib. གུ་རུ་བློ་ལྡན་མཆོག་སྲེད་, Wyl. gu ru blo ldan mchog sred
  6. Guru Pema Gyalpo (kingship), Tib. གུ་རུ་པདྨ་རྒྱལ་པོ་, gu ru padma rgyal po
  7. Guru Sengé Dradrok subjugation of non-buddhists), Tib. གུ་རུ་སེང་གེ་སྒྲ་སྒྲོག་, Wyl. gu ru seng ge sgra sgrog
  8. Guru Dorje Drolö (concealing terma, (binding spirits under oath), Tib. གུ་རུ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྲོ་ལོད་, Wyl. gu ru rdo rje gro lod

The Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava do not depict different Padmasambhavas, but reflect his ability to appear according to different needs and demands. In fact, they are called in Tibetan Guru Tsen Gyé, the eight ‘names’ of the Guru; each manifestation demonstrates a different principle that unveils the innermost nature of mind. As Guru Rinpoche said: “Mind itself is Padmasambhava; there is no practice or meditation apart from that.”[1]

Alternative Names & Lists

Other lists include:

Pema Kathang

In the Pema Kathang revealed by Orgyen Lingpa the eight manifestations are mentioned in chapter 19:

  1. Guru Shakya Sengé (east)
  2. Guru Pema Gyalpo (south)
  3. Guru Padmasambhava (west)
  4. Guru Dorje Drolö (north)
  5. Guru Nyima Özer (southeast)
  6. Guru Padmakara (southwest)
  7. Guru Sengé Dradrok (northwest)
  8. Guru Loden Choksé (northeast)

Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

In his praise of the eight manifestations entitled A Garland of Youthful Utpalas (ut+pal gzhon nu'i do shal)[2], Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo lists the eight as:

  1. GuruTsokyé Dorje
  2. Guru Loden Choksé
  3. Guru Pema Gyalpo
  4. Guru Shakya Sengé
  5. Guru Nyima Özer
  6. Guru Sengé Dradrok
  7. Guru Dorje Drolö
  8. Guru Padmakara

Dungkar Lobzang Trinlé

In his Great Dictionary (p.500), Dungkar Lobzang Trinlé lists them as follows:

  1. Guru Tsokyé Dorje
  2. Guru Dorje Drakpo Tsal
  3. Guru Shakya Sengé
  4. Guru Loden Choksé
  5. Guru Pema Tötreng Tsal
  6. Guru Pema Gyalpo
  7. Guru Nyima Özer
  8. GuruSengé Dradrok

Tukdrup Yang Nying Kundü

In the empowerment of Tukdrup Yang Nying Kundü, Guru Rinpoche and his Eight Manifestations appear as:

Gallery

Sets of thangkas of the Eight Manifestations include a central image of Guru Pema Jungné.

  • Guru Tsokyé Dorje

  • Shakya Sengé

  • Nyima Özer

  • Padmasambhava

  • Loden Choksé

  • Pema Gyalpo

  • Sengé Dradok

  • Dorje Drolö

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Adapted from Dzogchen & Padmasambhava
  2. ↑ Collected Works, Vol. ka, pages 132-4
  3. ↑ Dalai Lama, Dzogchen, page 230.

Source

RigpaWiki:Eight Manifestations of Guru Rinpoche

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