Maitrīpa

Maitrīpa on the DRL

Classical Indian Authors

མཻ་ཏྲི་པ་

Wylie	mai tri pa
Devanagari	मैत्रीप
Romanized Sanskrit	Maitrīpa

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Other names

• མངའ་བདག་མཻ་ཏྲི་པ་
• དྷརྨ་
• གཉིས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་
• ཨ་ཝ་དྷུ་ཏི་པ་
• མཻ་ཏྲི་གུཔྟ་
• གཉིས་སུ་མེད་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་

• 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

Alternate names

• Advayavajra
• Maitrīpāda
• Maitrīgupta
• Avadhūtipa
• Avadhūtipāda
• Maitreyanātha

Dates

Birth:	986
Death:	1063
Notes on dates:	Dates are taken from Mathes 2015, p. 1, nt. 2. Alternative dates are 1007-1085.
Place of birth:	India

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Has following emanations

Gyurme Dechen

Teachers

Sha wa ri pa · Nāropa

Students

Mahāvajrāsana · khyung po rnal 'byor · mar pa chos kyi blo gros

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Links

BDRC Link

https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P44

Treasury of Lives Excerpt

Himalayan Art Resources Link or Other Art Resource

https://www.himalayanart.org/items/60674

Wiki Pages

• Maitrīpa on the DRL
• Maitrīpa on the LIB
• Maitrīpa on the RTZ
• Maitrīpa on the DNZ
• Maitrīpa on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

Person description or short bio

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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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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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.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

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.