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'''Nāropa''' or '''Nadapada''' or '''Abhayakirti''' (Tib. [[ནཱ་རོ་པ་]]) (956-1040)<ref>Peter Roberts gives Naropa's dates as 956-1040, and explains that the common dating of 1016-1100 is based on a literal reading of [[Tsangnyön Heruka]]'s account of the life of [[Marpa]], including visionary accounts without historical basis. See ''Mahamudra and Related Instructions'', p. 14.</ref> was an important master in the [[Kagyü]] tradition. He was 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''' (Tib. [[ནཱ་རོ་པ་]]) (956-1040)<ref>Peter Roberts gives Naropa's dates as 956-1040, and explains that the common dating of 1016-1100 is based on a literal reading of [[Tsangnyön Heruka]]'s account of the life of [[Marpa]], including visionary accounts without historical basis. See ''Mahamudra and Related Instructions'', p. 14.</ref> was an important master in the [[Kagyü]] tradition. He was a disciple of the [[mahasiddha]] [[Tilopa]] and a teacher of [[Marpa]] the translator and many others. He is also counted among the [[eighty-four mahasiddhas]]. | ||
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Revision as of 20:03, 24 March 2017
Nāropa or Nadapada or Abhayakirti (Tib. ནཱ་རོ་པ་) (956-1040)[1] was an important master in the Kagyü tradition. He was a disciple of the mahasiddha Tilopa and a teacher of Marpa the translator and many others. He is also counted among the eighty-four mahasiddhas.
Notes
- ↑ Peter Roberts gives Naropa's dates as 956-1040, and explains that the common dating of 1016-1100 is based on a literal reading of Tsangnyön Heruka's account of the life of Marpa, including visionary accounts without historical basis. See Mahamudra and Related Instructions, p. 14.
Further Reading
- Abhayadatta, Buddha's Lions: Lives of the Eighty-four Siddhas, Emeryville, Dharma Publishing, 1979
- Chögyam Trungpa, Illusion's Game: The Life and Teaching of Naropa. Boston and London: Shambhala, 1994
- Herbert V. Guenther, The Life and Teaching of Naropa, Boston: Shambala, 1999, ISBN 978-1570621017
- Peter Alan Roberts, Mahāmudrā and Related Instructions: Core Teachings of the Kagyü Schools, Boston: Wisdom, 2011
