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|Notes=For a complete study of Niguma, see the book ''Niguma, Lady of illusion'' by Sarah Harding.
 
|Notes=For a complete study of Niguma, see the book ''Niguma, Lady of illusion'' by Sarah Harding.
Niguma is the second Jewel among the Seven Shangpa Jewels (notice that The first Jewel of the Shangpa is Vajradhara, the first and eternal Buddha from whom Niguma received teachings directly). <br />
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Niguma is the second Jewel among the Seven Shangpa Jewels (notice that the first Jewel of the Shangpa is Vajradhara, the first and eternal Buddha from whom Niguma received teachings directly). <br />
Established in a realization which goes beyond the usual temporal benchmarks, she remains accessible to those endowed with a pure mind and appeared to masters who lived in the 11th and 12th c. and then to others throughout history. Amng them is [[Bodong Cholé Namgyel]], [[Thangtong Gyelpo]] and [[Künga Drölchok]].<br />  
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Established in a realization which goes beyond the usual temporal benchmarks, she remains accessible to those endowed with a pure mind and appeared to masters who lived in the 11th and 12th c. and then to others throughout history. Among them is [[Bodong Cholé Namgyel]], [[Thangtong Gyelpo]] and [[Künga Drölchok]].<br />  
"Blessed by Vajradhara himself, named Niguma or ''rnal 'byor ma rus pa'i rgyan cha can'' (Yogini Adorned with Bone Ornaments), she remained at the charnel ground of ''so sa gling'' and left for a pure domain without leaving her body. Mochokpa used to say she was [[Naropa]]'s sister but opinions differ and most masters consider that she was his consort. She is also named ''grub pa'i rgyal mo'', the Queen of the Accomplished" ([http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/MW1KG4304 ''chos 'byung bstan pa'i pad+ma rgyas pa'i nyin byed'' p.207]).<br /><br />
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"Blessed by Vajradhara himself, named Niguma or ''rnal 'byor ma rus pa'i rgyan cha can'' (Yogini Adorned with Bone Ornaments), she remained at the charnel ground of ''so sa gling'' and left for a pure domain without leaving her body. Mochokpa used to say she was [[Naropa]]'s sister but opinions differ and most masters consider that she was his consort. She is also named ''grub pa'i rgyal mo'', the Queen of the Accomplished" ([http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/MW1KG4304 ''chos 'byung bstan pa'i pad+ma rgyas pa'i nyin byed'' p.207]).<br /><br />According to the biography of Khyungpo Neljor, they met in the forest of the charnel ground of ''Sosadvīpa'' (''dur khrod chen po so sa gling gi nags gseb'') during the second trip of Khyungpo Neljor to India (they also met during the third trip). Niguma transmitted him: ''sgyu lus rmi lam gyi dbang bskur / chos drug gi khrid / [[Ni gu ma'i chos drug rdo rje tshig rkang|rdo rje'i tshig rkang]] (vajrapāda), [[sgyu ma lam rim]] / [[Topic:Five Tantra Classes|rgyud sde lnga]]'i dbang + sgrub thabs + gdams pa / (hevajra) dgyes rdor sprul pa'i lha dgu (dbang bskur), (hevajra) mtshon cha can lha bcu gsum (dbang bskur) / (hevajra) brtag gnyis ([https://84000.co/translation/toh417 Toh 417], [https://84000.co/translation/toh418 Toh 418]) + gur / (hevajra) sam+bu Ti (sampuṭodbhavaḥ, [https://84000.co/translation/toh381 Toh 381], ''previously transmitted by Dakini Kanakashrila'') + sgrub thabs, (hevajra) mtshon cha can gyi bskyed rim rgyas ('bring) bsdus gsum, (hevajra?) de kho na nyid bzhi'i gdams ngag / bde mchog drug cu rtsa gnyis, (bde mchog) bcu gsum, (bde mchog) lha lnga'i dkyil 'khor (dbang bskur, rgyud, sgrub thabs) / (hevajra) mtshon cha can dang dus 'khor gyi gdams ngag, (hevajra?) de kho na nyid bzhi'i zhal gdams / [[Topic:Kechari|mkha' spyod dkar dmar]], rgyud sde bzhi'i sgrib sel (Kriya, Charya, Yoga, Anuttara Yoga tantra), bde mchog rigs lnga'i rdzogs rim, thig le'i rdzogs rim''.<br/><br/>།དེ་ནས་དངོས་སུ་ཁྲིད་ཚར་གསུམ་དང་། རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཚིག་རྐང་དང་། སྒྱུ་མ་ལམ་རིམ་གསུངས། རྒྱུད་སྡེ་ལྔའི་དབང་དང་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་དང་གདམས་པ་རྣམས་གསུངས། དགྱེས་རྡོར་སྤྲུལ་པའི་ལྷ་དགུ་དང་། མཚོན་ཆ་ཅན་ལྷ་བཅུ་གསུམ་དུ་དབང་བསྐུར། བརྟག་གཉིས་དང་གུར་གསུངས། སམྦུ་ཊི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་དང་བཅས་པ་དང་། མཚོན་ཆ་ཅན་གྱི་བསྐྱེད་རིམ་རྒྱས་བསྡུས་གསུམ་དང་། དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་བཞིའི་གདམས་ངག་གསུངས། བདེ་མཆོག་དྲུག་ཅུ་རྩ་གཉིས་དང་། བཅུ་གསུམ་དང་། ལྷ་ལྔའི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་དུ་དབང་བསྐུར། རྒྱུད་དང་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་མང་དུ་གསུངས། མཚོན་ཆ་ཅན་དང་དུས་འཁོར་གྱི་གདམས་ངག་དང་། དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་བཞིའི་ཞལ་གདམས་གསུངས། མཁའ་སྤྱོད་དཀར་དམར་དང་། རྒྱུད་སྡེ་བཞིའི་སྒྲིབ་སེལ་དང་། བདེ་མཆོག་རིགས་ལྔའི་རྫོགས་རིམ་དང་། ཐིག་ལེའི་རྫོགས་རིམ་རྣམས་གསུངས་སོ། །རྒྱུད་རྡོ་རྗེ་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་ལས་ཚོགས་ཐམས་ཅད་གཏན་ལ་ཕབ་ནས་གསུངས། མདོར་ན་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ཌཱ་ཀི་མ་འདི་ཉིད་ཀྱིས། རྒྱུད་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་གདམས་པ་དང་བཅས་པ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་གསུངས་སོ།<br/><br/>Lineage: Lavapa > Niguma: "Thus, in this life (as Niguma), based on the teachings of the instructions by the adept Lavāpa and some others..." (''Lady of Illusion'', p.1 and [https://www.tsadra.org/2010/02/04/seeking-niguma-lady-of-illusion/ Tsadra Foundation]).
Lineage: Lavapa > Niguma: "Thus, in this life (as Niguma), based on the teachings of the instructions by the adept Lavāpa and some others..." (''Lady of Illusion'', p.1 and [https://www.tsadra.org/2010/02/04/seeking-niguma-lady-of-illusion/ Tsadra Foundation]).
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|Teachers=Vajradhara,Naropa,Ratnavajra,Lavapa,Lalitavajra?
|Teachers=Naropa,Ratnavajra,Lavapa,Lalitavajra?
 
 
|Students=Khyungpo Neljor,Abhayakara,Marpa Chökyi Lodrö,DA ki 'dra ba'i dngos grub / dra ba'i dngos grub (SCv9p711)
 
|Students=Khyungpo Neljor,Abhayakara,Marpa Chökyi Lodrö,DA ki 'dra ba'i dngos grub / dra ba'i dngos grub (SCv9p711)
 
|Links=[https://www.shangpafoundation.org/library/masters-page/niguma/ Shangpa Foundation],[http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/P47 BUDA P47],[http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Khyungpo_Naljor Rangjung Yeshe Wiki]
 
|Links=[https://www.shangpafoundation.org/library/masters-page/niguma/ Shangpa Foundation],[http://purl.bdrc.io/resource/P47 BUDA P47],[http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/Khyungpo_Naljor Rangjung Yeshe Wiki]
 
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Resource ID P1
Date of Birth 10~11th c. Date of Death After 1030
External links Shangpa Foundation
BUDA P47
Rangjung Yeshe Wiki

Name Variants

ni gu ma
ne gu ma
nai gu ma
ni gup+ta
ni gup+tA
srījñāna ḍākinī
rnal 'byor ma rus pa'i rgyan cha can
grub pa'i rgyal mo

Teachers

Vajradhara
Naropa
Ratnavajra
Lavapa
Lalitavajra?

Students

Khyungpo Neljor
Abhayakara
Marpa Chökyi Lodrö
DA ki 'dra ba'i dngos grub / dra ba'i dngos grub (SCv9p711)

Associated works

Author

Associated to work

Notes

For a complete study of Niguma, see the book Niguma, Lady of illusion by Sarah Harding.

Niguma is the second Jewel among the Seven Shangpa Jewels (notice that the first Jewel of the Shangpa is Vajradhara, the first and eternal Buddha from whom Niguma received teachings directly).
Established in a realization which goes beyond the usual temporal benchmarks, she remains accessible to those endowed with a pure mind and appeared to masters who lived in the 11th and 12th c. and then to others throughout history. Among them is Bodong Cholé Namgyel, Thangtong Gyelpo and Künga Drölchok.
"Blessed by Vajradhara himself, named Niguma or rnal 'byor ma rus pa'i rgyan cha can (Yogini Adorned with Bone Ornaments), she remained at the charnel ground of so sa gling and left for a pure domain without leaving her body. Mochokpa used to say she was Naropa's sister but opinions differ and most masters consider that she was his consort. She is also named grub pa'i rgyal mo, the Queen of the Accomplished" (chos 'byung bstan pa'i pad+ma rgyas pa'i nyin byed p.207).

According to the biography of Khyungpo Neljor, they met in the forest of the charnel ground of Sosadvīpa (dur khrod chen po so sa gling gi nags gseb) during the second trip of Khyungpo Neljor to India (they also met during the third trip). Niguma transmitted him: sgyu lus rmi lam gyi dbang bskur / chos drug gi khrid / rdo rje'i tshig rkang (vajrapāda), sgyu ma lam rim / rgyud sde lnga'i dbang + sgrub thabs + gdams pa / (hevajra) dgyes rdor sprul pa'i lha dgu (dbang bskur), (hevajra) mtshon cha can lha bcu gsum (dbang bskur) / (hevajra) brtag gnyis (Toh 417, Toh 418) + gur / (hevajra) sam+bu Ti (sampuṭodbhavaḥ, Toh 381, previously transmitted by Dakini Kanakashrila) + sgrub thabs, (hevajra) mtshon cha can gyi bskyed rim rgyas ('bring) bsdus gsum, (hevajra?) de kho na nyid bzhi'i gdams ngag / bde mchog drug cu rtsa gnyis, (bde mchog) bcu gsum, (bde mchog) lha lnga'i dkyil 'khor (dbang bskur, rgyud, sgrub thabs) / (hevajra) mtshon cha can dang dus 'khor gyi gdams ngag, (hevajra?) de kho na nyid bzhi'i zhal gdams / mkha' spyod dkar dmar, rgyud sde bzhi'i sgrib sel (Kriya, Charya, Yoga, Anuttara Yoga tantra), bde mchog rigs lnga'i rdzogs rim, thig le'i rdzogs rim.

།དེ་ནས་དངོས་སུ་ཁྲིད་ཚར་གསུམ་དང་། རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཚིག་རྐང་དང་། སྒྱུ་མ་ལམ་རིམ་གསུངས། རྒྱུད་སྡེ་ལྔའི་དབང་དང་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་དང་གདམས་པ་རྣམས་གསུངས། དགྱེས་རྡོར་སྤྲུལ་པའི་ལྷ་དགུ་དང་། མཚོན་ཆ་ཅན་ལྷ་བཅུ་གསུམ་དུ་དབང་བསྐུར། བརྟག་གཉིས་དང་གུར་གསུངས། སམྦུ་ཊི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་དང་བཅས་པ་དང་། མཚོན་ཆ་ཅན་གྱི་བསྐྱེད་རིམ་རྒྱས་བསྡུས་གསུམ་དང་། དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་བཞིའི་གདམས་ངག་གསུངས། བདེ་མཆོག་དྲུག་ཅུ་རྩ་གཉིས་དང་། བཅུ་གསུམ་དང་། ལྷ་ལྔའི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་དུ་དབང་བསྐུར། རྒྱུད་དང་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་མང་དུ་གསུངས། མཚོན་ཆ་ཅན་དང་དུས་འཁོར་གྱི་གདམས་ངག་དང་། དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་བཞིའི་ཞལ་གདམས་གསུངས། མཁའ་སྤྱོད་དཀར་དམར་དང་། རྒྱུད་སྡེ་བཞིའི་སྒྲིབ་སེལ་དང་། བདེ་མཆོག་རིགས་ལྔའི་རྫོགས་རིམ་དང་། ཐིག་ལེའི་རྫོགས་རིམ་རྣམས་གསུངས་སོ། །རྒྱུད་རྡོ་རྗེ་མཁའ་འགྲོའི་ལས་ཚོགས་ཐམས་ཅད་གཏན་ལ་ཕབ་ནས་གསུངས། མདོར་ན་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ཌཱ་ཀི་མ་འདི་ཉིད་ཀྱིས། རྒྱུད་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་གདམས་པ་དང་བཅས་པ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་གསུངས་སོ།

Lineage: Lavapa > Niguma: "Thus, in this life (as Niguma), based on the teachings of the instructions by the adept Lavāpa and some others..." (Lady of Illusion, p.1 and Tsadra Foundation).