Having sung this,
Padmasambhava mounted a beam of sunlight
and in the flicker of a moment
flew away into the sky.



From the southwestern direction,
he turned his face to look back and sent forth
a light ray of immeasurable loving kindness
that established the disciples in a state of non-return.



Accompanied by a cloudlike assembly
of inner and outer dakinis making musical offerings,
he then went to the southwestern continent of Chamara.





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- excerpted from the forty-first and final chapter
in the immaculate life story of the Lotus-Born Master,
telling how Master Padma departed to subdue the rakshasas in the southwest
and sang songs to his attendants and escorts.

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These songs were originally recorded by Yeshe Tsogyal (9th c.)
and transcribed from a terma discovered by Nyang Ral Nyima Oser (12the c.)
as translated by Erik Pema Kunsang in THE LOTUS-BORN The Life Story of Padmasambhava,
composed by Yeshe Tsogyal
Shambhala 1993