Person:Nāropa
Tibetan Names
Tibetan: Person:Nāropa
Wylie:
- nA ro pa
- nA ro paN chen
- nA ro pa paNDita
- nā ro ta pa
- nA ro chen po
- mkhas grub chen po nA ro tA pa
- mkhas pa nA ro paN chen
Other transliterations in use:
- Person:Nāropa
- Person:Nāropa
- Person:Nāropa
- Person:Nāropa
- Person:Nāropa
- Person:Nāropa
- Person:Nāropa
- Person:Nāropa
Sanskrit Names
- Person:Nāropa
- Person:Nāropa - The manuscript of the Paramarthasaṃgraha preserves a Sanskrit form Naḍapāda (Paramarthasaṃgraha 74).
- Person:Nāropa - Prakrit (Tucci 1930:150 & 152) semi-Sanskritic Person:Nāropa (Tucci 1930:150 & 152) Noted in The Outer Wheel of Time: Vajrayāna Buddhist Cosmology in the Kālacakra tantra by John Ronald Newman. PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin--Madison:1987 pg 105 n.97
Dates
Born: 1012 (956?) - See Newman, John. "The Epoch of the Kālacakra Tantra." Indo-Iranian Journal 41 (1998): 319-349.: 347, note 10.[1]
Died: 1100 (1040?) - See Wylie, T. "Dating the Death of Naropa." L. Hercus et al., eds. Indological and Buddhist Studies. Volume in Honour of Professor J.W. de Jong on his Sixtieth Birthday. Canberra, 1982.
Other Biographical Information
Main Students
chos kyi blo gros
ma na ka shrI
pra dznyA raksi ta
Main Teachers
Writings
bde mchog gi rnam par sprul pa dang yul nyi shu rtsa bzhi'i rgyu mtshan [tbrc holdings 1] bla ma nA ro'i gdams ngag [tbrc holdings 1] bla ma sgrub pa (nang ltar sgrub pa) paro lama ngodrup and sherab drimey 1979-1981 [tbrc holdings 1] brtag gnyis las brtag pa phyi ma bshad pa [s.l.] [s.n.] [n.d.] [tbrc holdings 1] bsre 'pho'i lam gyi snying po bka' yang dag pa'i tshad ma zhes bya ba mkha' 'gro ma'i man ngag darjeeling kargyu sungrab nyamso khang 1978-1985 [tbrc holdings 1] dpal lha mo nag mo'i dngos grub thams cad 'byung ba'i rgyud paro lama ngodrub and sherab drimey 1982 [tbrc holdings 1] rdo rje'i tshig rkang snying po bsdus pa'i dka' 'grel slob dpon chen po nA ro pas mdzad pa [tbrc holdings 1] rim bzhi lam slong [tbrc holdings 1] snyan rgyud rdo rje'i tshig rkang [tbrc holdings 1] spyod pa chos kyi glu zhes bya ba 'byung ba ro snyoms kyi gdams ngag paro lama ngodrup and sherab drimey 1979-1981 [tbrc holdings 1] spyod pa chos kyi glu zhes bya ba 'byung ba ro snyoms kyi gdams ngag darjeeling kargyu sungrab nyamso khang 1978-1985 [tbrc holdings 1]
Writings about Nāropa
Tibetan Texts at TBRC:
nA ro pa'i rnam thar gangtok gonpo tseten 1978 [tbrc holdings 1]
nA ro pa'i rnam thar ngo mtshar rmad 'byung urgyen dorje sumra, h.p. 1976 [tbrc holdings 1]
nA ro paN chen gyi rnam thar
paN chen nA ro pa ye shes dngos grub kyi rnam thar bir. distt. kangra, h.p. tsondu senghe yorey tsang 2006 [tbrc holdings tbrc holds inkprint and digitally scanned images, tiffs and pdf files; scanned for preservation purposes only; not for distribution]
rje btsun chen po nA ro pa'i rnam par thar pa dad pa'i shing rta [lha sa] [s.n.] [2004] [tbrc holdings 1]
rje btsun ti lo pa'i rnam mgur dang dpal nA ro pa'i rnam thar bsdus pa zi ling mtsho sngon mi rigs dpe skrun khang 1992 [tbrc holdings 1]
tai lo rA ro'i rnam thar sde dge sde dge par khang chen mo 1998? [tbrc holdings 1]
English
- Guenther, Herbert V., trans. The Life and Teaching of Nāropa: Translated from the original Tibetan with philosophical commentary based on the oral transmission. UNESCO Collection of Representative Works Tibetan Series. London, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. Clarendon Press, 1963.
- Mullin, Glenn. Readings on the Six Yogas of Naropa. Ithaca, N. Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 1997.
- Trungpa, Chögyam and Sherab Chödzin. Illusion's Game: The Life and Teaching of Naropa. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1994.
- Wylie, T. "Dating the Death of Naropa." L. Hercus et al., eds. Indological and Buddhist Studies. Volume in Honour of Professor J.W. de Jong on his Sixtieth Birthday. Canberra, 1982.
French
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German
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- Wilhelm, Friedrich. Prufung und Initiation im Buche Pausya und in der Biographie des Naropa. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1965.
Italian
- Nāropā. L'iniziazione, Traduzione e commento della Sekoddeśaṭikā di Nāropā. Milano: Adelphi, 1994.
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Online
- Himalayanart.org
- Nāropa on Wikipedia
- Kagyu Golden Rosary
- Rigpa Wiki
- Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
- Naropa on TBRC
Writings
- The Sekoddeśaṭīkā by Nāropā (Paramārthasaṃgraha). Critical Edition of the Sanskrit Text by Francesco Sferra. Critical Edition of the Tibetan Translation by Stefania Merzagora. Roma: Istituto Italiano Per l'Africa e l'Oriente, 2006.
Footnotes
- ↑ John Newman says in note 10: On Srī Nāropa’s nirvana, see Wylie 1982. I follow Wylie’s argument in dating Nāropa’s death, but note that his main source is Alaka Chattopadhyaya, Atīśa and Tibet. For additional important Tibetan sources that also place Nāropa’s death shortly before Atīśa’s departure for Tibet, see Eimer 1979: 172–74; dPa’ bo gTsug lag phreng ba 1545–64: 673. Also, Wylie concludes: “Let the historical record show that Nāropa was born in A.D. 956 and died in A.D. 1040...” (Wylie 1982: 691). Although Wylie has made a strong case for dating Nāropa’s death at ca. 1040 CE, the evidence in support of the birth date is weak. As a rule we must be very skeptical of the miraculously precise dates late Tibetan sources provide for events that occurred hundreds of years earlier in India. These dates are always given in the Tibetan element animal sexagenary cycle which was never used in India, and which only became current in Tibet in the 13th century. In other words, we cannot rely too heavily on Tibetan reconstructions of the chronology of Indian Buddhism until we thoroughly understand the presuppositions, methods, and source materials of the Tibetan historians and hagiographers. - Newman, John. "The Epoch of the Kālacakra Tantra." Indo-Iranian Journal 41 (1998): 319-349.