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'''Nāropa''' or '''Nadapada''' or '''Abhayakirti''' (1016-1100?) was an important master in the [[Kagyü]] tradition. A disciple of the [[mahasiddha]] [[Tilopa]] and a teacher of [[Marpa]] the translator. He is also counted among the [[eighty-four mahasiddhas]]. | '''Nāropa''' or '''Nadapada''' or '''Abhayakirti''' (1016-1100?) was an important master in the [[Kagyü]] tradition. A disciple of the [[mahasiddha]] [[Tilopa]] and a teacher of [[Marpa]] the translator. He is also counted among the [[eighty-four mahasiddhas]]. | ||
Revision as of 13:16, 19 October 2010
Nāropa or Nadapada or Abhayakirti (1016-1100?) was an important master in the Kagyü tradition. A disciple of the mahasiddha Tilopa and a teacher of Marpa the translator. He is also counted among the eighty-four mahasiddhas.
Further Reading
- Abhayadatta, Buddha's Lions: Lives of the Eighty-four Siddhas, Emeryville, Dharma Publishing, 1979
- Herbert V. Guenther, The Life and Teaching of Naropa, Boston: Shambala, 1999