244 HISTORY OF LAMAISM. 



secular objects. Just as they assigned female "energies" — the Hindu 

 Its numerous deities : Saktis Or divine mothers — as companions to most 

 female energies. of the gods, wives were allotted to the several 



Buddhas and Bodhisatwas. 



At an early date Buddhists worshipped the tree under which the 



Buddhahood was attained, and the monument 



^Tr'b Budllhis'ts' ■"'tich contained Buddha's relics, and the images 



of these two objects together with the Wheel as 



symbolic of the teaching. 



Northern Buddhism Iiad almost reached this impure stage when 

 o^ , t T ;i- „ it was introduced into Tibet about the middle of 



State of Indian i _ i « -r^ tt- m • i 



Buddhism at time of the 7th century A.D. limen Isiang states that 

 introduction to Tibet. ^Iie Mahayana school then predominated in India, 

 and tantrik and mystic doctrines were appearing. 



Lamaism dates from over a century later than the first entry of 



Buddhism into Tibet, and in the meantime tantri- 



e a ac a ra. ^ism had greatly increased. About the same time 



the doctrine of the Kalachakra or supreme Deity, without beginning or 



end, the source of all things, \_Adi Buddha Samantahhadra [Hi^i, Kun-tu 



zang-poj] was accepted by the Lamas, 



Lamaism was founded by the wizard-^jriest Padma Samhhava (Tib. 

 The founder of Pedma Junfjnc),^ i.e., "The lotus born;" usually 

 Lamaism. called by the Tibetans Guru Rimhochhe" or "The 



Precious Guru;" or simply " Guru,^'' the Sanskrit for "teacher." 



Lamaism arose in the time of King ThT-Srong De-tsan, who 



reigned 740—786 A.D. The son of a Chinese 



Lamaism dates princess, he inherited from his mother a strong pre- 



from a century later. T ,. .' „ p r) j ii • tt x i. t t 



judice in favour of Buddhism. He sent to India 

 for books and teachers, and commenced a systematic translation from 

 the Sanskrit and Chinese scriptures ; and he built the first Buddhist 

 monastery in Tibet, viz, Samyu (Sam-yas). 



It was in connection with the building of this monastery that Padma 



Story of the visit to Sambhava first came to Tibet. King Thi-Srong 



Tibet of its founder, De-tsan's endeavours to build were all frustrated by 



Guru Kimpoehhe. earthquakes which were attributed to demons. On 



the advice of the Indian Buddhist monk Shantarakshita, the latter sent 



to the great Indian monastery of Nalanda for the wizard-priest Padma 



Sambhava of tlie Yogacharya School, who was a famous sorcerer. 



Padma Sambhava, who was a native of Udyjina, or Ghazni, a 



region famed for sorcery, promptly responded to the 



M^^enJ:!::'' Tibetan king's request and arrived at Samyd, by 



way of Katmandu and Kyirong in Nepal, in the 



' Padma Abyung gusiS. \ ■ Gu-ru rin-po-chhe. 



