]> 2026-09-15T22:07:17-04:00 mar pa chos kyi blo gros 0 en མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ mar pa lo tsA ba 2636 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.) File:Marpa Chokyi Lodro.jpg https://commons.tsadra.org/thumb.php?f=Marpa_Chokyi_Lodro.jpg&width=1000 true true true true true File:Marpa Chokyi Lodro.jpg;File:6340 (MarpaLotsawa).jpg;File:Marpa Lotsawa.jpg;File:Marpa (R. Beer).jpg false Marpa Chökyi Lodrö མར་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་ mar pa chos kyi blo gros Classical Tibetan Authors 2021-10-13T19:25:37Z 2459501.309456 2021-10-13T19:25:37Z 2459501.309456 true mar pa chos kyi blo gros lho brag People File:Marpa Chokyi Lodro.jpg File:6340 (MarpaLotsawa).jpg File:Marpa Lotsawa.jpg File:Marpa (R. Beer).jpg|Line Drawing by Robert Beer Courtesy of [http://www.tibetanart.com/ The Robert Beer Online Galleries] Kagyu Nāropa;Maitrīpa Classical mi la ras pa 1012 1097 0 0 count 2 [[Category:Tibetan Texts]] [[Category:mar pa chos kyi blo gros]] mar pa chos kyi blo gros# QUERY69f037d8284a47d0decf857692c61d08 0 200 0 template 2 [[Category:Tibetan Texts]] [[Category:mar pa chos kyi blo gros]] mar pa chos kyi blo gros# QUERYf6adea19cffca1de9841a979cb5b6697 0 1 template 3 [[Category:Tibetan Collections]] [[WorkAuthor::mar pa chos kyi blo gros]] mar pa chos kyi blo gros# QUERYb104448cd0c35888fc10d3c49c36c10d mar pa chos kyi blo gros/Full text list 0 en mar pa chos kyi blo gros/Full text list Has parent page 102 en Has parent page