Samding Dorje Phagmo According to Tibetan historical account, Guru Rinpoche was born just four years after the historical Buddha's Mahaparinirvana on the wood monkey year in the monkey month in a kingdom known as Oddiyana.
Oddiyana may have been located somewhere in today's Pakistan in Swat Valley and at the time it was ruled by King Indrabhuti.
According to the legend, the king had a vision in a dream where a five-pointed golden vajra came very close to him, while there was sun and moon both rising in the eastern sky as an omen predicting Guru Rinpoche's birth.
When Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) was born in the form of Padma Gyalpo, he already had the appearance of an eight-year-old.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche explains in Crazy Wisdom[3]:"He was inquisitive, bright, youthful, untouched by anything.