Item: Teacher (Lama) - Marpa Chokyi Lodro

Tibetan: བླ་མ། Chinese: 喇嘛

(item no. 937)

Origin Location	Tibet
Date Range	1700 - 1799
Lineages	Kagyu
Size	90.17x55.88cm (35.50x22in)
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art
Catalogue #	acc.# P2000.1.2

Classification: Person

Appearance: Lay Person

Gender: Male

TBRC: bdr:P2636

Interpretation / Description

Marpa Chokyi Lodro, the Translator (1012-1096): the founder of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. At the upper right is the meditational deity Hevajra. At the bottom center is the wrathful enlightened protector Shri Devi.

Mar pa Biographical Details

At the viewers middle right is Dagmema the wife of Marpa, holding up a drinking cup. Below her is Ngog Choku Lodro. At the left side are Meton Tsonpo and below him is Tsurton.

Jeff Watt 3-2001

Marpa Chokyi Lodro.

At the center is Marpa Chokyi Lodro, Hevajra at the top right, Marpa's consort Dagmema is holding a cup to the right of Marpa, below her is Marpa's student Ngok Choku Dorje. On Marpa's lower left is his student Meton Tsonpo and below is Tsurton Wangi Dorje, the principle recipient of the Guhyasamaja cycle of tantras from Marpa which later merged with the Shalu sub-sect of the Sakya tradition.

Shinzo Shiratori 8-2024