Mar pa do pa chos kyi dbang phyug

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Marpa Dopa Chökyi Wangchuk

Marpa Dopa Chökyi Wangchuk



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

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