A KORA OF KORAS

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In the highest teaching of Tantra, 13 ‘There is neither one God or many gods,
there is only God or in Buddhist terminology - Reality;’ there is nothing greater
than or other than this undivided Reality and thus nothing to turn away from.
Tantra embodies this paradoxical understanding of life and religion in which the
goal of liberation is not different than what is always and already the case.
When Mandaravya’s father was told a man’s voice was heard within her rooms
and that his daughter had invited a wandering yogi into her chambers, he was
enraged by the transgression of her public vows of renunciation and the violation
of his daughter by what he thought was a common, low-born man. Because of
this he would lose face amongst the kings and princes he had discouraged from
seeking his daughter’s hand in marriage and he himself would become a
laughingstock.
So the king sent his soldiers to seize them; Mandaravya was placed in a deep pit to
punish her and Padmasambhava was bound to a stake fixed in a pyre of wood
soaked in mustard oil which was then set alight. After the flames leapt up, king
Shastradhara, left for his residence and the fire continued to burn for a whole
week, filling the air with clouds of black smoke