Marpa lotsawa biography channels

  • Marpa's life is mostly known through a long biography composed in the early 16th century by Tsangnyön Heruka (Gtsang smyon he ru ka, –).
  • Marpa studied Sanskrit and Indian vernacular languages under Drokmi Lotsawa's direction for three years but could not afford to pay the high.
  • Marpa Chokyi Lodro, Translator ( [P]): founder of one of the two schools named Kagyu (the Oral Tradition) in Tibetan Buddhism.

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    Lotsawa

    Marpa Chökyi Lodrö was born in the southern part of Tibet known as Lhodrak. In comparison to other children he was wild and untamed, with a fearsome temper. This made it hard for his parents to educate him at home and so he was sent off to be trained in the Dharma at a ung age. Marpa studied with Drokmi Shakya Yeshe the translator and became a master not only of the Tibetan language, but also of Sanskrit. However, feeling that he was unable to receive a complete Dharma education, he decided to make the hazardous journey to India in order to study with renowned Buddhist masters. He first returned home to Lhodrak and converted his entire inheritance into gold for his travel expenses and to make offerings to his prospective Indian gurus.

    Marpa made the arduous journey to the India three times. During these long, exceedingly dangerous and expensive journeys he showed complete disregard for his own body, possessions, and welfare. Arriving first in Nepal, he studied with

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    Six Dharmas of Naropa

    Set of Tibetan Buddhist tantric practices

    The Six Dharmas of Nāropa (Wylie: na ro'i chos drug, Skt. ṣaḍdharma, "Naro's six doctrines" or "six teachings") are a set of advanced Tibetan Buddhist tantric practices compiled by the Indian mahasiddhasTilopa and Nāropa (– CE) and passed on to the Tibetan translator-yogi Marpa Lotsawa (c.&#;).[1]

    Another name for the six Dharmas is "the oral instruction transmission for achieving liberation in the bardo," or "the Bardo Trang-dol system". Bardo here, refers to the three bardos of waking, sleep and dying.[2] They are also referred to as "the path of means" (thabs lam) in Kagyu literature.[3] They are also sometimes called the Six Yogas of Nāropa (though not in the traditional literature which never uses the term ṣaḍaṅga-yoga or sbyor-drug).[1]

    The six dharmas are a collection of tantric Buddhist completion stage practices drawn from the Buddhist tantras. The

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    &#;The lineage is not renowned
    Yet it possesses the Dharma framtidsperspektiv of ḍākinīs.
    The forefather is not renowned
    Yet Tilopa is the innate face of Buddha.
    The guru fryst vatten not renowned
    Yet he possesses the Dharma vision of Nāropa.
    I, myself, am not renowned
    Yet I am the heart son of Nāropa.
    The pith instructions are not renowned
    Yet they are three wish-fulfilling gems.
    The distinctive Dharma is not renowned
    Yet they are the mixing and transference, absent in all others,
    And the aural transmissions, absent in all others”

    བརྒྱུད་པ་སྙན་པར་མི་སྒྲག་ཏུ།  མཀའ་འགྲོ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྤྱན་ཅན་ཡིན། མེས་པོ་སྙན་པར་མི་སྒྲག་ཏུ།  ཏེ་ལོ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཉག་ཅིག་ཡིན། བླ་མ་སྙན་པར་མི་སྒྲག་ཏུ།  ནཱརོ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྤྱན་ཅན་ཡིན། ང་རང་སྙན་པར་མི་སྒྲག་ཏུ།  ནཱ་རོ་ཐུགས་ཀྱི་བུ་ཅིག་ཡིན། གདམ་ངགས་སྙན་པར་མི་སྒྲག་ཏུ།  ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་རྣམ་སུམ་ཡིན། ཁྱད་ཆོས་སྙན་པར་མི་སྒྲག་ཏུ།  ཀུན་ལ་མེད་བའི་བསྲས་འཕོ་ཡིན། ཀུན་ལ་མེད་བའི་སྙན་རྒྱུད་ཡིན།

    —–by Marpa Lotsawa (Excerpt from Marpa’s Life Story by Ngog Dode)[1]

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