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Biography Yeshe Tsogyal Main Page Yeshe Tsogyal Biography No evidence has yet been found that a person named Yeshe Tsogyel lived in Tibet, although this does not rule out the possibility that an aristocrat named Kharchen Za mkhar chen bza' did exist and served as the basis for the Yeshe Tsogyel legends. Sources for the life of Yeshe Tsogyel ye shes mtsho rgyal do not agree on basic biographical data.

She is generally said to have been born in a bird year in the eighth century in the region of Drak sgrags. The most famous version of her life, by Taksham Nuden Dorje stag sham nu ldan rdo rje, b. According to Jamgon Kongtrul 'jam mgon kong sprul, , who cites the Testament of Padma padma bka' thang , Pelgyi Wangchuk was the brother of Yeshe Tsogyel; their father was named Namkha Yeshe nam mkha' ye shes and their mother was Nubma Gewa Bum gnubs mo dge ba 'bum.

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Yeshe Tsogyel is said to have been a wife of the Tibetan King Tri Songdetsen khri srong lde'u btsan, , but she is not attested to in imperial records; stone inscriptions that give the names of the King's wives do not include her. In some versions of the Chronicles of Ba, one of the earliest surviving historical records of Tibet, a Kharchen Za Tsogyel mkhar chen bza' mtsho rgyal is listed as a wife of Tri Songdetsen, with the explanation that she engaged in meditation and therefore had left no children.

However, this passage may have been a later insertion into the text, complicating her identification as a wife of the King. Nyangrel produced the book as a treasure revelation and credited Yeshe Tsogyel as the original author.

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According to the Copper Palace, Yeshe Tsogyel was daughter of Kharchen Pelgyi Wangchuk, and was sixteen years old when Padmasambhava took her as a sexual consort to practice in the caves of Chimpu mchims phu above Samye Monastery bsam yas. The Copper Palace also has her obtain the power of non-forgetting, enabling her to record all the teachings she heard and thereby conceal them as treasure for later generations.

While in the Copper Palace Nyangrel does not list her as a wife of the King, in another composition he does so. She became significant enough to warrant her own biography at least by the fourteenth century, when the treasure revealer Drime Kunga dri med kun dga', b. As described by Janet Gyatso, the story is rich in supernatural feats, dramatic conversions, and mastery of esoteric teachings.

In her study of this work Gyatso suggests that Guru Chowang gu ru chos dbang, likely also wrote a biography of Yeshe Tsogyel, from which Drime Kunga drew. In Chonyi Drolma's recent translation of the work we find an account of the marriage saga in which Tri Songdetsen is not mentioned and the consort relationship with Padmasambhava is less emphasized.

Taksham Nuden Dorje's seventeenth-century biography, which has been translated once into French and three times into English, appears to have been based on Drime Kunga and several other common sources.