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Marpa Lotsāwa (མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་, 1012–1097), sometimes known fully as Marpa Chökyi Lodrö (Wylie: mar pa chos kyi blo gros) or commonly as Marpa the Translator (Marpa Lotsāwa), was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher credited with the transmission of many Vajrayana teachings ...
Marpa Lotsawa, the translator was prophetiesed by Buddha Shakyamuni and the Indian Mahasiddha Padmasambhava. He is considered a spiritual master of major importance for the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet. Marpa was born in 1012 in Pesar, in the district of Lhotrak Chukhyer in Tibet.
Marpa the translator. The Tibetan Marpa (1012-1097) came to Nepal in search of the dharma. Buddhist from his earliest youth, he had learnt Sanskrit from the Sakyapa Lama Drogmi, then exchanged all his belongings for gold in preparation for his quest.
Marpa the Translator. A ngakphang Lama of the Kagyu lineage. Marpa was a farmer. There are many down-home visceral pictures of Marpa, in which he is portrayed almost in the guise of a red-neck. He has a sense of dignity which one might associate with the independence and self-sufficiency of subsistence farming in Tibet.
His most well known disciple and lineage holder was the Marpa, the translator. Upon his return to Tibet, Marpa spent many years translating Buddhist scriptures and contributed to the effort to bring the complete buddhadharma to Tibet. Many of his translations are part of the Kagyur and Tangyur.
Jun 18, 1995 · Marpa the Translator, the eleventh-century farmer, scholar, and teacher, is one of the most renowned saints in Tibetan Buddhist history. In the West, Marpa is best known through his teacher, the Indian yogin Nâropa, and through his closest disciple, Milarepa.
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MARPA, THE TRANSLATOR. 1012–1097. Marpa came to Nepal in search of the dharma. Buddhist from his earliest youth, he had learnt Sanskrit from the Sakyapa Lama Drogmi, then exchanged all his belongings for gold in preparation for his quest.
