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- Wylie:Mnga' bdag mar pa lo tsA bas dpal sa ra ha las gsan pa'i phyag rgya chen po yid la mi byed pa snying po don gyi gdams ngag yi ge bzhi pa'i don rdo rje'i mgur du bzhengs pa + (This song, also known as the ''Marpa’s Roo … This song, also known as the ''Marpa’s Root Song about Nonattention'','"`UNIQ--ref-00000147-QINU`"' is one of the—if not the—most famous songs by Marpa Lotsāwa. It is found in many of his biographies, including the well-known one by Tsangnyön Heruka. It is in the collection called the ''Ocean of Kagyu Songs'' (also</br>known as the ''Rain of Wisdom'') and in the Twenty-Five Songs of Marpa, a</br>song anthology compiled by the sixteenth Drikung throne-holder, Kunga</br>Rinchen (1475–1527). It is also one of eight songs that Marpa sang for which</br>there is a named melody, a group Tsangnyön Heruka called the eight great</br>songs. The melody for this song is called the “outstretched wings of a soaring</br>garuda.”'"`UNIQ--ref-00000148-QINU`"'</br></br>Marpa followed the Indian tradition of singing about meditative experiences and realizations, but he often added autobiographical elements, as is the case here. Marpa sang this song in response to a request from the Lokya</br>prince of Gyerpu in Tsang, where he had been invited to teach following his</br>return from his first trip to India. The rest of the story is told in the song.</br></br>''Transmission lineage received by Jamgön Kongtrul''. Marpa to Milarepa, and</br>then the same as previously stated for the Ganges Mahāmudrā.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000149-QINU`"'es Mahāmudrā.'"`UNIQ--ref-00000149-QINU`"')