Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo, a Vajrayana

Vajrayana

Vajrayāna Buddhism is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Mantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle...

 Buddhist sacred scripture that records oral teachings of Padmasambhava

Padmasambhava

Padmasambhava ; Mongolian ловон Бадмажунай, lovon Badmajunai, , Means The Lotus-Born, was a sage guru from Oddiyāna who is said to have transmitted Vajrayana Buddhism to Bhutan and Tibet and neighbouring countries in the 8th century...

 in the 9th Century, transcribed by his consort Yeshe Tsogyal

Yeshe Tsogyal

Yeshe Tsogyal , was the consort of the great Indian tantric teacher Padmasambhava, the founder-figure of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Nyingma tradition considers her equal in realization to Padmasambhava himself. The meditational practices related to her, stress her enlightened...

. This transcription was elementally encoded as terma by Padmasambhava and his principal disciples. Aspects of these teachings were realised as terma by Chokgyur Lingpa in the 19th Century and then revealed and transmitted.

The Light of Wisdom (1999) is an extended exegesis on the Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo by Jamgön Kongtrül the Great

Jamgon Kongtrul

Jamgön Kongtrül is a name of a prominent line of Tibetan Buddhist teachers , primarily identified with the first Jamgon Kongtrul, but also the name shared by members of a lineage held by tradition to be his subsequent reincarnations , to date....

, one of the eminent Buddhist masters of nineteenth-century Tibet.