Naropa
Nāropa or Nadapada or Abhayakirti (Tib. ནཱ་རོ་པ་) (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
