Marpa Chökyi Lodrö

PersonType	Category:Classical Tibetan Authors
MainNamePhon	Marpa Chökyi Lodrö
MainNameTib	མར་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་
MainNameWylie	mar pa chos kyi blo gros
AltNamesTib	མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་
AltNamesWylie	mar pa lo tsA ba
YearBirth	c. 1012
YearDeath	1097
BornIn	lho brag
ReligiousAffiliation	Kagyu
Has emanations	Jamyang Rinchen Gyaltsen
TeacherOf	mi la ras pa
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P2636
Treasury of Lives	http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Marpa-Chokyi-Lodro/4354
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	A renowned Tibetan translator and lay Buddhist master who played an important role in the later transmission (phyi dar) of Buddhism from India to Tibet. He is regarded as the Tibetan founder of the Bka’ brgyud sect of Tibetan Buddhism, which traces its lineage to India and the mahāsiddhas Tilopa and Nāropa. In his traditional biographies, Mar pa is generally regarded as a reincarnation of the Indian mahāsiddha Dombī Heruka. Mar pa was born to wealthy landowners in the Southern Tibetan region of Lho brag and quickly proved to be a gifted child. As an adult, Mar pa was characterized as having a volatile temper, although ultimately compassionate. His parents sent their son to study Sanskrit and Indian vernacular languages with the translator ’Brog mi Shākya ye shes in western Tibet. Because resources for studying Buddhism in Tibet were limited as the so-called dark period between the earlier dissemination (snga dar) and later dissemination (phyi dar) came to an end, Mar pa decided to make the harrowing journey to India to seek instruction from Buddhist masters. He would make three journeys there over the course of his life. He first spent three years in Nepal, acclimating to the new environment and continuing his study of local languages. There he met two Nepalese teachers, Chitherpa and Paiṇḍapa, who offered many religious instructions but also encouraged Mar pa to seek out the master who would become his chief guru, the great siddha Nāropa. (Source: "Mar pa Chos kyi blo gros." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 533. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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