Yeshe Tsogyal Guru Yoga

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Yeshe Tsogyal Guru Yoga

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Anyone know of a Yeshe Tsogyal guru yoga practice? (i.e. receiving blessings/empowerments from the guru as Yeshe Tsogyal)
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dakini_boi wrote:Anyone know of a Yeshe Tsogyal guru yoga practice? (i.e. receiving blessings/empowerments from the guru as Yeshe Tsogyal)
I don't recall one. However, you can take use the 7 branch prayer from any YT sadhana (such as the Khandro Thukthig, which is very Ati).
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I actually feel, given the roles of the Samayasattva and the Jñanasattva in tantric practices, that whilst Yeshe Tsogyal is most often used as the most suitable form of Samayasattva, when you look at what attributes are most suitable for the Jñanasattva, it is obviously Guru Rinpoche. Thus the predominance of GR as Guru.

But there are probably exceptions; the Choling Tersar Green Tara comes to mind... probably others too.
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There is actually a Yeshe Tsogyal Guru Yoga. However it's structured like a deity yoga sadhana. It may have been a variation on Yumka. I don't know where I put the text. Khenpo Tsewang gave this to his Palyul students in Maryland many years ago now.

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Thank you all for your input. Yes, I'm sure there must be several guru yogas of YT. . . I'm surprised they are not more widely known.
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There is a very short and simple Guru Yoga of Yeshe Tshogyel in her outer form, composed by 15th Karmapa, Khakyab Dorje, just translated and published here: https://dakinitranslations.com/2020/11/ ... h-karmapa/
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Yeti wrote: Thu Feb 28, 2013 3:45 am I actually feel, given the roles of the Samayasattva and the Jñanasattva in tantric practices, that whilst Yeshe Tsogyal is most often used as the most suitable form of Samayasattva, when you look at what attributes are most suitable for the Jñanasattva, it is obviously Guru Rinpoche. Thus the predominance of GR as Guru.
I'm afraid I don't follow. What are the "attributes are most suitable for the Jñanasattva" that make you feel it should be GR? And in what context is "Yeshe Tsogyal .. most often used as the most suitable form of Samayasattva"? I'm afraid I don't see the connections.
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Yeshe Tsogyal is always inseperable from Guru Rinpoche, and in fact she is his khatvanga staff. So if you are doing visualization or guru yoga of Guru Rinpoche, she's always there.
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There is a short GY from Dorje Dechen Lingpa and a longer one from (???) in the Karma Kagyu.
As Khandro Rinpoche gave a YT-Wang in the 90s the Kamalshila Institute in Germany had both sadhanas in the DharmaShop.
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