Maitrīpa

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PersonType Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNameTib མཻ་ཏྲི་པ་
MainNameWylie mai tri pa
MainNameDev मैत्रीप
MainNameSkt Maitrīpa
AltNamesTib མངའ་བདག་མཻ་ཏྲི་པ་  ·  དྷརྨ་  ·  གཉིས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་  ·  ཨ་ཝ་དྷུ་ཏི་པ་  ·  མཻ་ཏྲི་གུཔྟ་  ·  གཉིས་སུ་མེད་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་
AltNamesWylie mnga' bdag mai tri pa  ·  d+har+ma  ·  gnyis med rdo rje  ·  a wa d+hu ti pa  ·  mai tri gup+ta  ·  gnyis su med pa'i rdo rje
AltNamesOther Advayavajra  ·  Maitrīpāda  ·  Maitrīgupta  ·  Avadhūtipa  ·  Avadhūtipāda  ·  Maitreyanātha
YearBirth 986
YearDeath 1063
DatesNotes Dates are taken from Mathes 2015, p. 1, nt. 2. Alternative dates are 1007-1085.
BornIn India
Has emanations Gyurme Dechen
StudentOf Sha wa ri pa  ·  Nāropa
TeacherOf Mahāvajrāsana  ·  khyung po rnal 'byor  ·  mar pa chos kyi blo gros
BDRC https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P44
Himalayan Art Resources https://www.himalayanart.org/items/60674
IsInGyatsa No
BnwShortPersonBio Famed Indian Mahāsiddha whose influence was felt in the Tibetan tradition via his student Marpa Chökyi Lodrö, and others. In terms of the Uttaratantra he is reported to have had visionary interactions with the Bodhisattva Maitreya that led him to discover instructions related to the treatise. However, there is no mention of this in his extant writings. Nevertheless, the lineage of the instructions that reportedly descend from him would form the basis for a meditative tradition of exegesis on this work that became widespread among followers of the Kagyu school. A tradition which feature a unique Mahāmudra approach to the Uttaratantra.
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