Lotus-Born

A lotus bloomed on the waters of Lake Dhanakosha in Oddiyana, and upon it sat a child who had never been born of woman, who carried in his eight-year-old form the wisdom of all Buddhas and the wildness of awakened compassion unbound by convention or fear. This is the story of Padmasambhava, Guru Rinpoche, the Lotus-Born, the Precious Guru, told from the heart of the tradition he founded. Lotus-Born: The Miraculous Origins of the Precious Guru traces his sacred life from that first impossible flowering through charnel grounds thick with siddha-power, through fire that could not burn him, through the embrace of wisdom-consorts and the company of realized masters, through sky-teachings descending like rain, through every ordeal and transmission and miraculous turning that prepared him for the task no other being could accomplish: carrying the full blaze of Vajrayana Buddhism into the waiting darkness of Tibet. Drawn faithfully from the tradition's own sources, offered with love and precision for devoted hearts.