[translation-eng] {Hopkins} Niguma [p.n.]
[comments] Indian female tantric siddhā, ""sister"" of Naropa who married him, helped him to renounce the world and herself became a tenth ground bodhisattva and is now a Buddha; founded and now protects the Shang-b#a (zhang pa) lineage of G#a-gyü-b#a (bka' brgyud pa); taught Kyung-b#o-nen-jor (khyung po rnal 'byor) as a sky-goer (mkha' 'gro ma, dākiṇī) at a cemetery at Soṣa; gave him six yogas, which served as the foundation of the school