China/Tibet: Yeshe Tsogyal, spiritual consort of Padmasambhava. Painting, c. 14th century. 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. A dakini (Sanskrit: ḍākinī; Tibetan: khandroma) is a tantric deity described as a female embodiment of enlightened energy

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