Mar pa do pa chos kyi dbang phyug

Marpa Dopa Chökyi Wangchuk

མར་པ་དོ་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་

1042 - 1136

A contemporary and student of the illustrious Tibetan masters Rongzom and Marpa the translator, Marpa Dopa traveled south to Nepal and India where he studied under numerous prominent Indian scholars and yogis of the time. He is mostly remembered for his translations of tantric works and, in particular, for the lineages of Cakrasaṃvara and Vajrayoginī that he brought back to Tibet and spread among his students.

Philosophical positions of this person

Is buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional?

Definitive

Do all beings have buddha-nature?

Yes

To which "turning of the wheel" do the buddha-nature teachings belong?

Is buddha-nature equated with emptiness or alayavijnana?

Yogācāra

Do buddha-nature teachings belong to the zhentong or rangtong view of emptiness?

Are there one or three vehicles on the path to buddhahood?

Do the author's writings belong to the analytic or meditative tradition of Uttaratantra exegesis?

Meditative Tradition

What is Buddha-nature?

Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature

Does the author advocate the Svatantrika or Prasangika view of emptiness?

Other names

མར་པ་དོ་བ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ · other names (Tibetan)
mar pa do ba chos kyi dbang phyug · other names (Wylie)

Affiliations & relations

nil · teacher
cog ro chos kyi rgyal mtshan · student