High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yeshe Tsogyel, also known in the Nyingma tradition as the Great Bliss Queen, is a semi-mythical female deity or figure of enlightenment (dakini) in Tibetan Buddhism. She lived from 757 to 817, and is most identified as the mystic spiritual Yab-Yum consort of the great Indian tantric teacher Padmasambhava ("the Lotus-Born One"), who was invited to Tibet by the Emperor Trisong Detsen. Though a consort of Padmasambhava, Yeshe Tsogyel became a master in her own right. Both the Nyingma and Karma Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism recognize Yeshe Tsogyal as a female Buddha. Padmasambhava is supposed to have said to her: "The basis for realizing enlightenment is a human body. Male or female, there is no great difference. But if she develops the mind bent on enlightenment the woman's body is better" (quoted by Stevens, 1990, p. 71).
