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Contents: Remembering the Lotus-Born:
Padmasambhava in the History of Tibet's Golden Age
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Preface
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Introduction
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1
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Padamsambhava in Early Sources
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6
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Lives and Times of the Dreadlocked Sovereign
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19
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Traditio, Text, Traditional Texts, and
Textual Traditions
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28
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Karmic Foreshadowing on the Path of Fruition
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33
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Oneiric Conception
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36
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The Arrival of the Nirmanakaya
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43
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Empowerment and Experience
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46
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Claiming His Karmic Inheritance
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53
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Reincanation and the Return of the Sovereign
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55
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Foundations of Catenate Reincarnation
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58
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Early Catenation of Preincarnations
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60
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One Primary Preincanation
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64
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Nyangrel (and Others) on the Possibility of
His Return
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70
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The Final Emanation
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82
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Treasure Beyond Tradition
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85
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Originating the Treasures
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89
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Nyangrel and the Early Treasures
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96
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Mentors
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97
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Yogin Envisioned as
Instigator
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105
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Treasure Certificates
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110
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Treasure Recovery
Narratives in the
Stainless
Proclamations
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111
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Treasure Recovery
Narratives in the
Clear Mirror
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126
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Collection and
Compilation, Augmentation and Fabrication
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130
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4.
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Drawing Honey from Historiography
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141
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Three Volumes, One
Recension
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144
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One Volue, Three
Manuscripts
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147
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Nectars and Flowers,
Excerpts and Sources
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148
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Coda to an Earlier Essence of Flowers
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154
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A Copyist's Colophon
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156
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The
Chronicle of the Later Dissemination of the Teachings
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160
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Four Subsequent Codas and
Colophons
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162
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Revisiting the Origins of
the
History of Buddhism
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173
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5.
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Delivering the Lotus-Born
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177
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First Hypothesis: Source
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178
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Second Hypothesis: Content
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188
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Third Hypothesis:
Transmission
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198
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Conclusion: Myth,
Culture, and Continuity
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199
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Appendix: Dating the Birth,
Life, and Death of Nyangrel
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203
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List of Tibetan Title
Abbreviations
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209
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Bibliography
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213
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Index
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229
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About the Author
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239
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