Item: Teacher (Lama) - Marpa Chokyi Lodro

Marpa Chokyi Lodro, Translator (1012-1096 [p2636]): founder of one of the two schools named Kagyu (the Oral Tradition) in Tibetan Buddhism. Marpa's tradition was called Kagyu and after him was called Marpa Kagyu to differentiate the tradition from the unrelated Shangpa Kagyu founded by Kedrub Kyungpo Naljor.

Marpa's most famous student was Milarepa, but probably his most beloved student was Dharmadode. (See a Milarepa: Teachers & Students Outline).

Tibetan: Mar pa | Biographical Details

At the top of the composition are lineage teachers. At the middle right are orange Manjushri and white Lokeshvara. Directly below Marpa are Amitabha Buddha and Maitreya. Below that are Green Tara, Sarasvati, Yellow Vasudhara, Yellow Jambhala and Shri Devi Dudsolma.

At the middle and lower left side are blue Vajrapani and a donor figure wearing monastic robes and seated in front of a shrine.

Jeff Watt 3-2014