"Blazing with bravery, like a great lion soaring through space,Turquoise mane of thousands of oral instructions on the tantras’ meaning,Bellowing laughter that stirs the ‘earth’ of the whispered lineage,Remembering again the supreme translator.སེང་ཆེན་མཁའ་ལ་འཕྱོ་འདྲའི་སྙིང་སྟོབས་འབར༎རྒྱུད་དོན་མན་ངག་འབུམ་གྱིས་གཡུ་རལ་གསིག༎སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ས་གཞི་གཡོ་བའི་གད་རྒྱངས་ཅན༎སྐྱེས་མཆོག་སྒྲ་བསྒྱུར་རྒྱལ་སླར་ཡང་དྲན༎། --17th Karmapa's Praise to Marpa With great courage, you travelled many times to the noble land.With great wisdom, you mentally captured all… Continue reading MARPA GURU YOGA AND PRAISES
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HEARING ‘HER-STORY'(II): DAGMEMA. Marpa’s Wife and Milarepa’s confidante, friend and teacher, her life, textual sources, visual depictions and new translation of Praise to Marpa by 17th Karmapa
"I have decided that you are a bad person for [forcing Milarepa to do] the meaningless work [of building] a fort. Please hold the great magician with compassion and [teach] the Dharma." --Dagmema to Marpa "Marpa said, ”Great Magician, show me your back.” When he had finished examining it carefully, he said, ”My Master Naropa… Continue reading HEARING ‘HER-STORY'(II): DAGMEMA. Marpa’s Wife and Milarepa’s confidante, friend and teacher, her life, textual sources, visual depictions and new translation of Praise to Marpa by 17th Karmapa