Written down by the first home-grown Tibetan realised buddhist adept the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyel this biography of Padmasambhava was described by HH Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as "the most authoritative scripture".

On the spiritual path we speak of enlightenment. But how do we reconcile the idea of enlightenment with what we see when we look in the mirror—when insecurities, doubts, and self-centered tendencies arise in our minds? Dzigar Kongtrül suggests that we need not feel "doomed" when...