Maitrīpa

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. These instructions feature a unique Mahāmudra approach to the Uttaratantra, which would form the basis for a meditative tradition of exegesis on this work that became widespread among followers of the Kagyu school.
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Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena.

Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena.

The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra.

A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.

The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.