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
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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:
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Notes
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References
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Further reading
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