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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 from India, including the teachings and lineages of Mahamudra.
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He was a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and a major figure in the history of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. [1] He is also famous for the feat of climbing Mount Kailash . Biography — The Life of Milarepa
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The Milarepa Life Story was written by Tsangnyön Heruka ( Gtsang smyon he ru ka, 1452–1507) 1 in 1488. 2 The centrepiece of the biography is the relationship between Milarepa and his volatile Buddhist teacher Marpa. Marpa does not teach Milarepa when they first meet.
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The earliest account of his life is attributed to Gampopa (though probably they are lecture notes by one of his students), and it leaves out many of the events of the later story. No hail storm, no murders, mother apparently dies young rather than his father, no building of towers. This and the account by Rechungpa are the only ones where the autho...
According to the traditional life of Milarepa, he was born in the village of Kya Ngatsa – also known as Tsa – in Gungthang, a province of western Tibet, to a prosperous family, he was named Mila Thöpaga (Thos-pa-dga'), which means "A joy to hear." His family name, Josay, indicates noble descent, a sept of the Khyungpo or eagle clan..
When his father died, he entrusted the upbringing of his wife and children to his brother. But Milarepa's uncle and aunt took all of the family's wealth and forced his mother and his sister Petra to work as servants, while Milarepa himself was sent away to study reading and writing. At his mother's request, Milarepa studied black magic whose effica...
Knowing that his revenge was wrong, Milarepa (then known by his boyhood name 'Fortuitous') set out to find a lama and was led to Marpa the Translator. Marpa proved a hard taskmaster. Before Marpa would teach Milarepa he had him build and then demolish three towers in turn. Milarepa was asked to build one final multi-story tower by Marpa at Lhodrag:...
Nyanang Phelgyeling Monastery, also known as Sonam Gompa later in Nepal, which later became very famous in Nepal, is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in a tiny village called Nyanang in Tibet near the border of Nepal. Fortunately Nyanang Phelgyeling Monastery has the rare statue of Milerapa which was created by his own disciple (Bhu Rechung Pa ). The s...
Milarepa's lama was Marpa Lotsawa, whose guru was Naropa, whose guru in turn was Tilopa. Milarepa is famous for many of his songs and poems, in which he expresses the profundity of his realization of the dharma. His songs were impulsive, not contrived or written down, and came about while he was immersed in enlightened states of consciousness.[cita...
The earliest accounts of his life are a text which though attributed to Gampopa seem instead to be "hurried lecture notes" by one of his disciples.This story does not mention his mother and paternal relatives, or his father's death, and instead implies that his mother died early, the opposite of the traditional account, saying: "Since there were no...
Bhutanese painted thanka of Milarepa (1052-1135), Late 19th-early 20th century, Dhodeydrag Gonpa, Thimphu, BhutanMilarepa, Tempera on cotton, 21x30 cm, 2008 Otgonbayar ErshuuTibetan or Nepalese painted thanka of Milarepa, 19th century, mineral pigments and gold on cotton clothes of Nepal.A famous statue of Milarepa brought from Nyanang PhelgyelingLiberation in One Lifetime: Biographies and Teachings of Milarepa, by Francis Tiso. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, June 2014. ISBN 978-1-58394-793-7.The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa, by Andrew Quintman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-231-16415-3.Life Story of Milarepa, by Ken Albertsen, adapted from the translation by Lobsang P.Lhalungpa, Publications, 2008, ISBN 978-1-879338-07-4(also available as audio-book).The Life of Milarepa, translated by Andrew Quintman, Penguin Classics, 2010, ISBN 978-0-14-310622-7The Tibetan Marpa had sought Buddhist instruction for years in India, where he studied with renowned Indian Buddhist masters. He studied at the Nalanda University in India, where Naropa taught. Marpa spent twelve years studying with Naropa. Naropa finally declared Marpa to be his successor.
Milarepa was one of the most famous and beloved of Tibetan Buddhist masters (Siddha). His life and accomplishments are commemorated in two main literary works. The first is a biography by the “Mad Yogin of Tsang” that chronicles the major events in his life from birth, to Enlightenment, to death.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The life of Milarepa. From the Gungthang province of Western Tibet, close to Nepal, Milarepa (1052-1135) had a hard childhood and a dark youth. He was only seven when his father died. Relatives had taken over his father’s property and mistreated the bereaved family.
Marpa himself is Buddha Vajradhara, Heruka, the already enlightened being, but when Milarepa came, he appeared to be working in a field with his wife, as a married couple, like an ordinary being, his body hot and dusty, plowing in the field, drinking wine. This is how it appeared. There are verses but I don’t remember them.
