Ocean of Perfect Wonder

Ocean of Perfect Wonder (Tib. ངོ་མཚར་ཕུན་ཚོགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl. ngo mtshar phun tshogs rgya mtsho) is a biography of Guru Padmasambhava by Jamyang Sönam Wangpo (Tib ‘Jam dbyangs bsod nams dbang po, 1559-1620). In the colophon he explains that it is based on earlier sources, including some which are no longer available, such as Guru Chöwang's Eleven Deeds of Padmasambhava.

Full Title

• rig ‘dzin grub pa’i dbang phyug chen po padma ‘byung gnas kyi rnam par thar pa ngo mtshar phun sum tshogs pa’i gya mtsho

Further Readings

• Ehrhard, Franz-Karl. "An Ocean of Marvelous Perfections": A 17th-Century Padma bka'i thang yig from Sa skya pa School. In: Tibetan Literary Genres, Texts, and Text Types, edited by Jim Rheingans, 139-181. Leiden: Brill, 2015.