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“Anticipating the great persecution of the ninth century that was to destroy much of early Tibetan Buddhism, Padma Sambhava hid numerous texts throughout Tibet, including the Book of Natural Liberation. After the eventual restoration, traditions of spiritual “treasure-discoverers” (Tib., tertoen) emerged, who exhibited extraordinary powers of clairvoyance, including x-ray vision. They were often thought to be reincarnations of aspects of Padma Sambhava himself, or of his twenty-five major tantric disciples. There are numerous accounts of their finding texts in caves high on cliffs, underground, in rocks, and trees. Sometimes they found treasures in their minds, hidden there by the master during their former lives, sealed in the memory codes of their spiritual genes, and discovered at the right moment when people had need of them in some later life and century.”

The Tibetan Book of the Dead; Liberation Through Understanding in the Between. Composed by Padma Sambhava. Discovered by Karma Lingpa. Translated by Robert A.F. Thurman, Foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama. Bantam Wisdom Editions.