Milarépa

Milarépa 1040 - 1123 (or according to a divergent source 1052 - 1135) is a yogi and famous Master of the Bouddhisme Tibetan.

He is one of the links of the Lignée of the Rosary d´Or.

Milarépa was one of the Large spiritual Masters of the Tibet, whose course was atypical. Initially formed with the practices Bön to exert black magic and to avenge its family at the request of her mother, he sought Buddhist teaching near a very large Master Tibetan, Marpa (1012-1096). After being put to the test by its Master, this last transmitted to him the lesson, it was withdrawn to practice the meditation in very the high mountain where it reached the Awakening. It is also famous to have composed “a hundred and thousand songs”. At the end of its life, it transmitted its lesson and have several disciples.

Biography

Its biography is reported in a work, the Life , written in 1490 by Tsang Nyön Heruka which also wrote in 1505 a biography of Marpa.

Milarépa was born in the province from Gungthang (or Goungthang) in the West from the Tibet, close to the Nepal. His/her father died whereas it was only seven years old and the properties of the family were left with the care of parents who maltreated Milarépa, his mother and her sister. The mother, not being able to admit this situation, sent her son to learn how the black magic Bön in order to be avenged for this injustice.

Milarépa was informed by an expert magician on the matter. It caused initially the death of 35 of its enemies, killed under the debris of a house which it had made crumble, then it caused a storm of hail which destroyed all the grain crop of its enemies.

However, he regretted its harmful acts. Not eating more, not sleeping more and not having more taste with the life, he then sought a Buddhist Master able to help it to neutralize the negative Karma which he had accumulated. He became disciple of a Master Nyingmapa called LAMA Rongtön which, thinking that he had affinities with Marpa, sent it to see this translator Tibetan with Lhodrag. Marpa had brought back India to the danger of its life, then translated, the lesson of the Indian Master Naropa (1016-1100), themselves transmitted by the wise Indian Tilopa (988-1069).

With the passing of years, Marpa forced on Milarépa considerable tests in order to prepare it to receive the later instructions and lesson. Marpa required of him for example to build only a tower of nine stages, according to precise indications. With the waning of these tests, Marpa transmitted the lesson to him which it had even received to him from Naropa and other Masters.

Milarépa practiced the meditation during many years in greatest insulation in caves of high mountain and controlled the transmissions which it had received. It reached the state of awakening in a life, started to teach and became famous for its poetic songs, a hundred and Thousand Songs of Milarépa . It had many famous disciples. Among them, Gampopa became the following holder of the line. Milarépa died at the age of eighty-four years.

Its teaching

It is contained in the biography indicated higher, but especially in a hundred and Thousand Songs composed of 61 chapters. Teaching is that of the Indian Tantrisme Life century, adapted to Tibet. They are lesson and initiations aiming at reaching the awakening. The last of the texts is the Tantra of Kalachakra .

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