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“Three of these dialogues were with women, illustrious practitioners who were contemporaries of Padmasambhava. These are of special interest in being a window into the past position and attitude of women during the time of Padmasambhava and/or Perna Lingpa.”
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“seven hundred years may not even have made much difference in the relative position of women in Himalayan society. And though the degrading words the women in these stories use to describe themselves were certainly attributed to them by the dominant male culture, most often-and most unfortunately-women tended to internalize these attitudes with characteristic low self-esteem.”
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“Two sites in particular mark this geographic spectrum: Kurje in Bumthang, where Padmasambhava is said to have left a full body print, and Samye in central Tibet, the locus of Tibet's first monastery constructed during the reign of Trisong Detsen.”
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Yeshe Tshogyal (consorte de Padmasambavha)
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“to show a more human side, with a touch of humor, Perna Lingpa shares with the reader that partway back down the cliff wall, treasure in hand, he awoke from the trance stuck on a perch.”
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“When he read the Prajnaparamita Sutras of twenty-five thousand and eight thousand verses a hundred times at Tsongdu Monastery in Drachi Valley,'- he understood the meaning of all the words.”
