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ན་རོ་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ན་རོ་པ།

  • na ro pa
  • nāropa
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Translation by Ryan Damron
  • Nāropa
  • ན་རོ་པ།
  • na ro pa
  • nāropa
Definition in this text:

Indian scholar and practitioner (956–1041), a major figure in the transmission of tantric Buddhism to Tibet. Earlier in his life he was an important paṇḍita of Nālandā, but left to become a yogi and siddha, the student of Tilopā, and later the teacher of Kukkuripa, Marpa, and others.

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