Tapihritsa

Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Bon Tapihritsa or Tapahritsa (c 7th ~ 8th century) was a Bon practitioner who achieved the Dzogchen mastery of the rainbow body and consequently, as a fully realised trikaya Buddha, is invoked as an iṣṭadevatā (Template:Langx) by Dzogchen practitioners in both BonTemplate:Sfnp and Tibetan Buddhism.Template:Sfnp He is known for his achievement of the rainbow body.Template:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp

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Tapihritsa, a Bon siddha from Zhangzhung

The historical Tapihritsa was born in Zhangzhung to a family of nomads. Tapihritsa's principal teacher was Dawa Gyaltsen.Template:Sfnp

Tapihritsa was contemporaneous with Ligmincha, King of Zhangzhung, and Trisong Detsen, Emperor of Tibet.Template:Sfnp

Tapihritsa is often visualized as representing the realization of all the masters of the Zhangzhung Whispered Transmission (Wylie: zhang zhung snyan brgyud) lineage, one of the three Bon Dzogchen lineages.

Works

Tapihritsa's primary notable work is The Twenty-One Nails (rdzogs pa chen po zhang zhung snyan rgyud las gzer bu gnyis shu rtsa gcig). There are two translations of this text and commentary into English, as follows:

• A translation of Tapihritsa's The Twenty-One Nails.

External links

• The Invocation of Tapihritsa, by Nangzher Lopo