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[[Image:Orgyen Lingpa.jpg|thumb|[[Orgyen Lingpa]]]]
'''Pema Kathang''' (Tib. པདྨ་བཀའ་ཐང་, [[Wyl.]] ''pad+ma bka' thang''), the ''Chronicle of Padma'' — a biography of [[Guru Rinpoche]], also known as the ''Sheldrakma'' (''shel brag ma''), revealed by [[Orgyen Lingpa]] from the Crystal Cave (Wyl. ''shel brag''). It has 108 chapters.

==Translations==
*Gustave-Charles Toussaint, ''Le Dict de Padma: Padma thang yig'', Librarie Ernest Leroux, 1935
*K. Douglas and G. Bays, ''The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava'', Dharma Publishing 1978 (translated from Toussaint's French version)

==Further Reading==
*Dan Martin, ''Tibetan Histories: A Bibliography of Tibetan-Language Historical Works'' (London: Serindia, 1997), page 56.

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