ABSTRACT
The wonders which accompanied Pemalingpa's birth in 1450 are described by him in the conventional terms appropriate to a great saint.55 His mother's pregnancy was blissful and light and in her dreams she saw many girls and youths playing around her. The sun and moon shone simultaneously, a phenomenon with overt tantric allusions to the mystical union of opposites. She dreamt that a turquoise-coloured girl carrying a vase (the most basic utensil used in any tantric initiation) entered the crown of her head. Meanwhile Pemalingpa's father dreamt of a mandala filling the sky, which he also saw replete with many volumes of scriptures. For three days rainbows shone and everyone saw the baby encircled in light. He was named Penjor.56
