Remembering the Lotus-Born

4. Drawing Honey from Historiography

Remembering the Lotus-Born

Cover Page
Title Page
Contents
Preface
Introduction
- Padmasambhava in Early Sources
- Lives and Times of the Dreadlocked Sovereign
- Tradition, Text, Traditional Texts, and Textual Traditions
1. Karmic Foreshadowing on the Path of Fruition
- Oneiric Conception
- The Arrival of the Nirmāṇakāya
- Empowerment and Experience
- Claiming His Karmic Inheritance
2. Reincarnation and the Return of the Sovereign
- Foundations of Catenate Reincarnation
- Early Catenation of Preincarnations
- One Primary Preincarnation
- Nyangrel (and Others) on the Possibility of His Return
- The Final Emanation
3. Treasure before Tradition
- Originating the Treasures
- Nyangrel and the Early Treasures
- Mentors
- Yogin Envisioned as Instigator
- Treasure Certificates
- Treasure Recovery Narratives in the Stainless Proclamations
- Treasure Recovery Narratives in the Clear Mirror
- Collection and Compilation, Augmentation and Fabrication
4. Drawing Honey from Historiography
- Three Volumes, One Recension
- One Volume, Three Manuscripts
- Nectars and Flowers, Excerpts and Sources
- Coda to an Earlier Essence of Flowers
- A Copyist’s Colophon
- The Chronicle of the Later Dissemination of the Teachings
- Four Subsequent Codas and Colophons
- Revisiting the Origins of the History of Buddhism
5. Delivering the Lotus-Born
- First Hypothesis: Source
- Second Hypothesis: Content
- Third Hypothesis: Transmission
- Conclusion: Myth, Culture, and Continuity
Appendix: Dating the Birth, Life, and Death of Nyangrel
List of Tibetan Title Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Copyright

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