The Biographies of Rechungpa

Author: Peter Alan Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135989125
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
This book traces the lifestory of Rechungpa (1084-1161) - the student of the famous teacher Milarepa - using rare and little-known manuscripts, and discovers how the image of both Milarepa and Rechungpa underwent fundamental transformations over a period of over three centuries. Peter Alan Roberts compares significant episodes in the life of Rechungpa as portrayed in a succession of texts, and thus demonstrates the evolution of Rechungpa’s biography. This is the first survey of the surviving literature which includes a detailed analysis of their dates, authorship and interrelationships. It shows how Rechungpa was increasingly portrayed as a rebellious, volatile and difficult pupil, as a lineage from a fellow-pupil prospered to become dominant in Tibet. Written in a style that makes it accessible to broad readership, Roberts' book will be of great value to anyone with an interest in the fields of Tibetan literature, history or religion.

Rechungpa

Author: Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931571227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description

The Biographies of Rechungpa

Author: Peter Alan Roberts
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415769952
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
This book traces the lifestory of Rechungpa (1084-1161) - the student of the famous teacher Milarepa - using rare and little-known manuscripts, and discovers how the image of both Milarepa and Rechungpa underwent fundamental transformations over a period of over three centuries. Peter Alan Roberts compares significant episodes in the life of Rechungpa as portrayed in a succession of texts, and thus demonstrates the evolution of Rechungpa's biography. This is the first survey of the surviving literature which includes a detailed analysis of their dates, authorship and interrelationships. It shows how Rechungpa was increasingly portrayed as a rebellious, volatile and difficult pupil, as a lineage from a fellow-pupil prospered to become dominant in Tibet. Written in a style that makes it accessible to broad readership, Roberts' book will be of great value to anyone with an interest in the fields of Tibetan literature, history or religion.

Tibet's Great Yogī, Milarepa

Author: Gtsaṅ-smyon He-ru-ka
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195133137
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
This extraordinary work is the life story of Milarepa--the important Tibetan religious leader who lived over 800 years ago. While there are many differences among the several sects of Tibetan Buddhism, each holds the Great Yogi Milarepa in the highest reverence and esteem ...

The Spiritual Biography of Marpa, the Translator

Author: Rinpoche Thrangu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bkaơ-rgyud-pa lamas
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
This Book Is Part Of A Series Of Teachings On The Kagyn Lineage Holders By Thrangu Rinpoche.

A Spiritual Biography of Rechungpa

Author: Rinpoche Thrangu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bkaơ-rgyud-pa lamas
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Rechungpa`S Spritual Biography Is One Of The Most Interesting Because Rechungpa Had A Great Deal Of Pride And Often Did Not Do What His Guru, Milarepa, Told Him To Do. As One Reads This Story One Sees How Rechungpa Interacts With His Guru And Gradually Begins To Develop True Realization.

The Life of Milarepa

Author:
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140193502
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
The Life of Milarepa is the most beloved story of the Tibetan people amd one of the greatest source books for the contemplative life in all world literature. This biography, a true folk tale from a culture now in crisis, can be read on several levels: a personal and moving introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, it is also a profoundly detailed guidebook in the search for consciousness. It presents the quest for spiritual perfection, tracing the path of a great sinner who became a great saint. But it is also a powerful and graphic folk tale, full of magic, disaster, feuds, deceptions, and humor. This definitive translation, originally published in 1977, was the first to appear in any Western language in half a century and renders this classic of spiritual literature into a simple modern English that reflects the direct power of the original.

The Yogin and the Madman

Author: Andrew Quintman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231535538
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052–1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Quintman traces this history and its innovations in narrative and aesthetic representation across four centuries, culminating in a detailed analysis of the genre's most famous example, composed in 1488 by Tsangnyön Heruka, or the "Madman of Western Tibet." Quintman imagines these works as a kind of physical body supplanting the yogin's corporeal relics.

The Origin of Buddhist Meditation

Author: Alexander Wynne
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134097417
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
Based on the early Brahminic literature, the author asserts the origin of the method of meditation learned by the Buddha from his two teachers and identifies some authentic teachings of the Buddha on meditation.

The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa

Author: Tsangnyön Heruka
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834840502
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 838

Book Description
An authoritative new translation of the complete Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, the teaching songs and stories from Tibet's most beloved Buddhist yogi, poet, and saint. Powerful and deeply inspiring, there is no book more beloved by Tibetans than The Hundred Thousand Songs, and no figure more revered than Milarepa, the great eleventh-century poet and saint. An ordinary man who, through sheer force of effort, faith, and perseverance, overcame nearly insurmountable obstacles on the spiritual path to achieve enlightenment in a single lifetime, he stands as an exemplar of what it is to lead a spiritual life. Milarepa, a cotton-clad yogi, wandered and taught the dharma, most famously through spontaneously composed songs, a colorful and down-to-earth way to convey the immediacy and depth of the Buddhist teachings. In this work, the songs are woven into a narrative that tells the stories of his most famous encounters with his students, including Gampopa and Rechungpa, and recount his victories over supernatural forces in the remote Himalayan mountains and caves where he meditated. In this authoritative new translation, prepared under the guidance of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Christopher Stagg brilliantly brings to life the teachings of this extraordinary man. This classic of world literature is important for its narrative alone but is also a key contribution for those who seek inspiration for the spiritual path.