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centuries later.
From a very young age the boy already stood out because of his abnormal and violent nature. He
killed a sleeping baby by throwing a stone at it and justified this deed with the pretense that the child
would have become a malignant magician who would have harmed many people in his later life.
Apart from his royal adoptive father, Indrabhuti, no-one accepted this argument, and several people
attempted to bring him to justice. At the urgings of a minister he was first confined to a palace by
soldiers. Shortly afterward the guru appeared upon the roof of the building, naked except for a
“sixfold bone ornament”, and with a vajra and a trident in his hands. The people gathered rapidly to
delight in the odd spectacle, among them one of the hostile ministers with his wife and son. Suddenly
and without warning Padmasambhava’s vajra penetrated the brain of the boy and the trident speared
through the heart of the mother fatally wounding both of them.
The pot boiled over at this additional double murder and the entire court now demanded that the
wrongdoer be impaled. Yet once again he succeeded in proving that the murder victims had earned
their violent demise as the just punishment for their misdeeds in earlier lives. It was decided to refrain
from the death penalty and to damn Padmasambhava instead. Thereupon a troupe of dancing dakinis
appeared in the skies leading a miraculous horse by the halter. Guru Rinpoche mounted it and
vanished into thin air. Acts of violence were to continue to characterize his future life.
As much as he was a master of tantric erotic love, he decisively rejected the institution of marriage.
When Indrabhuti wanted to find him a wife, he answered by saying that women were like wild
animals without minds and that they vainly believed themselves to be goddesses. There were,
however, exceptions, as well hidden as a needle in a haystack, and if he would have to marry then he
should be brought such an exception. After many unsuccessful presentations, Bhasadhara was finally
found. With her he began his tantric practices, so that “the mountains shook and the gales blew”.
The marriage did not last long. Like the historical Buddha, Guru Rinpoche turned his back on the
entertaining palace life of his adoptive father and chose as his favorite place to stay the crematoria of
India. He was in the habit of meditating there, and there he held his constant rendezvous with terriblelooking
witches (dakinis). One document reports how he dressed in the clothes of dead and fed upon
their decomposing flesh (Herrmann-Pfand, 1992, p. 195). He is supposed to have visited a total of
eight cemeteries in order to there and then fight out a magical initiation battle with the relevant
officiating dakinis.
His most spectacular encounter was definitely the meeting with Guhya Jnana, the chief of the terror
goddesses, one of the appearances of Vajrayogini. She lived in a castle made of human skulls. When
Padmasambhava reached the gates he was unable to enter the building, despite his magic powers. He
instructed a servant to inform her mistress of his visit. When she returned without having achieved
anything he tried once more with all manner of magic to gain entry. The girl laughed at him, took a
crystal knife and slit open her torso with it. The endless retinue of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
appeared within her insides. “I am just a servant”, she said. Only now was Padmasambhava admitted.
Guhya Inana sat upon her throne. In her hands she held a double-ended drum and a skull bowl and
was surrounded by 32 servant girls. The yogi bowed down with great respect and said, “Just as all
Buddhas through the ages had their gurus, so I ask you to be my teacher and to take me on as your
pupil” (Govinda, 1984, p. 226). Thereupon she assembled the whole pantheon of gods within her