Yeshe Tsogyal’s Family Tree

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Family

• Padmasambhava(spouse)— Consort

  Yeshe Tsogyal was Padmasambhava's principal Tibetan consort and foremost disciple. She received his complete tantric transmissions, organized and concealed the terma treasure teachings, and is considered the mother of the Nyingma lineage.

• Trisong Detsen(spouse)— Consort

  King Trisong Detsen took Yeshe Tsogyal as one of his queens before offering her to Padmasambhava as a spiritual consort, recognizing her extraordinary capacity for tantric practice.

Member of

• Dakini

  Yeshe Tsogyal and Mandarava, the two principal consorts of Padmasambhava, are revered as the foremost human dakinis — women who attained full enlightenment and embodied the wisdom dakini principle in living form.

Associated with

• Begtse,Dorje Legpa,Padmasambhava,Pehar,Phurba,Rahula,Subjugation of Tibet,Tseringma,Tsiu Marpo

  The Subjugation of Tibet describes how Padmasambhava, aided by Yeshe Tsogyal and armed with the phurba, tamed Tibet's hostile spirits — binding Pehar, Tsiu Marpo, Begtse, Dorje Legpa, Rahula, and Tseringma by oath as dharma protectors.

• Padmasambhava

  Yeshe Tsogyal served as Padmasambhava's scribe and keeper, encoding his teachings in dakini script and concealing them as terma in rocks, lakes, temples, and the mindstreams of future disciples across the Himalayan landscape.

• Zangdokpalri

  Yeshe Tsogyal, having completed her work of concealing terma throughout Tibet, dissolved into rainbow light and departed to Zangdokpalri, reuniting with Padmasambhava in the Palace of Lotus Light.