Yeshe Tsogyel was a Tibetan princess who lived during the ninth century and became an enlightened yogini. She was the tantric consort of Tibet’s great guru, Padmasambhava. Guru Padmasambhava was the founder of Buddhism in Tibet and possessed limitless enlightened power.
Yeshe means “primordial wisdom” and Tsogyel means “queen of the ocean-like quality of the mind”. She evoked the power to use all circumstances as vivid opportunities for realisation.
These relics are fragments of two letters written by Yeshe Tsogyel to Padmasambhava, who is the source of the terma tradition in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. In this tradition, hidden Dharma treasures, which are destined for rediscovery at the correct time, are known as “terma”. Terma are keys to awaken a recollection of the words, meanings and realisations of the teachings in the person who reads them. They also contain prophetic guidance for those who discover them.
Yeshe Tsogyel transcribed Padmasambhava’s many esoteric teachings given in symbolic language onto paper scrolls and concealed them in different places.
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