Yeshe Tsogyal
E1040560
Buddhist practitioner
Tibetan yogini
disciple of Padmasambhava
female tantric adept
historical religious figure
Yeshe Tsogyal is a revered 8th-century Tibetan yogini and consort of Padmasambhava, honored as a key founder and lineage holder of Tibetan Buddhism, especially within the Nyingma tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yeshe Tsogyal canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13430011 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yeshe Tsogyal Context triple: [Nyingma school, associatedWith, Yeshe Tsogyal]
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A.
Jetsun Pema
Jetsun Pema is the Queen of Bhutan, widely admired as a modern, educated royal consort and the wife of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.
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B.
Gyaltsab Je
Gyaltsab Je was a principal disciple of Je Tsongkhapa and an early leader and scholar of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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C.
Trisong Detsen
Trisong Detsen was an 8th-century Tibetan emperor renowned for establishing Buddhism as the state religion of Tibet and founding the great monastery of Samye.
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D.
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen was a 14th-century Tibetan Buddhist master and philosopher renowned for systematizing the Jonang school’s distinctive "shentong" (other-emptiness) doctrine.
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E.
Gyazumpa Cho
Gyazumpa Cho is one of the high-altitude glacial lakes in Nepal’s Gokyo Lakes system in the Everest region of the Himalayas.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yeshe Tsogyal Target entity description: Yeshe Tsogyal is a revered 8th-century Tibetan yogini and consort of Padmasambhava, honored as a key founder and lineage holder of Tibetan Buddhism, especially within the Nyingma tradition.
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A.
Jetsun Pema
Jetsun Pema is the Queen of Bhutan, widely admired as a modern, educated royal consort and the wife of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.
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B.
Gyaltsab Je
Gyaltsab Je was a principal disciple of Je Tsongkhapa and an early leader and scholar of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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C.
Trisong Detsen
Trisong Detsen was an 8th-century Tibetan emperor renowned for establishing Buddhism as the state religion of Tibet and founding the great monastery of Samye.
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D.
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen
Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen was a 14th-century Tibetan Buddhist master and philosopher renowned for systematizing the Jonang school’s distinctive "shentong" (other-emptiness) doctrine.
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E.
Gyazumpa Cho
Gyazumpa Cho is one of the high-altitude glacial lakes in Nepal’s Gokyo Lakes system in the Everest region of the Himalayas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist practitioner
ⓘ
Tibetan yogini ⓘ disciple of Padmasambhava ⓘ female tantric adept ⓘ historical religious figure ⓘ |
| activity |
hiding teachings as termas for future discovery
ⓘ
recording Padmasambhava’s oral instructions ⓘ |
| associatedSchool |
Nyingma
ⓘ
linked to:
Nyingma school
|
| associatedWith |
Guru Rinpoche cycle of practices
ⓘ
linked to:
Six Yogas of Naropa
Vajrayana Buddhism ⓘ
linked to:
Vajrayana
dakini practices ⓘ terma tradition ⓘ |
| century | 8th century ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn |
Guru Rinpoche feast practices
ⓘ
ritual practices of the Nyingma school ⓘ |
| consortOf | Padmasambhava ⓘ |
| discipleOf | Padmasambhava ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
Dakini of Space
ⓘ
Great Bliss Queen ⓘ Mother of Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| influence |
Nyingma visionary literature
ⓘ
female yogini lineages ⓘ status of women in Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a model of female enlightenment in Tibetan Buddhism
ⓘ
concealing spiritual treasures ⓘ exemplifying the path of a female bodhisattva ⓘ preserving Padmasambhava’s teachings ⓘ |
| lineageHolderOf |
Nyingma tradition
ⓘ
linked to:
Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
terma teachings ⓘ |
| nationality | Tibetan ⓘ |
| practiced |
Dzogchen
ⓘ
Mahayana path ⓘ Vajrayana tantra ⓘ |
| region | Tibet ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ |
| role |
compiler of teachings
ⓘ
key founder of Tibetan Buddhism ⓘ protector of tantric lineages ⓘ treasure revealer ⓘ |
| spiritualQuality |
bodhisattva compassion
ⓘ
tantric realization ⓘ |
| spiritualTeacher | Padmasambhava ⓘ |
| textualSource |
Namthar of Yeshe Tsogyal
ⓘ
The Life and Visions of Yeshe Tsogyal ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
emanation of Sarasvati
ⓘ
emanation of Tara ⓘ emanation of Vajravarahi ⓘ fully enlightened Buddha ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Yeshe Tsogyal Description of subject: Yeshe Tsogyal is a revered 8th-century Tibetan yogini and consort of Padmasambhava, honored as a key founder and lineage holder of Tibetan Buddhism, especially within the Nyingma tradition.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.