]> 2026-10-09T23:17:39-04:00 Nāropa 0 en Naropa; Nāropapada; Naropapada; Nāropa Pandita; Nāropa paNDita; Nadapada; Nādapāda; Nāropa paṇḍita; Naḍapāda; Nāropā 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 3085 An Indian scholar and tantric master who holds an important place in the lineages of tantric Buddhism in Tibet. According to his traditional biography, Nāropa was a brāhmana born in Bengal, who traveled to Kashmir as a child. He was forced to marry at the age of seventeen, but the marriage ended by mutual consent after eight years. According to some sources, Nāropa’s wife (or sister according to other sources) was Niguma, who became a famous tantric yoginī. Nāropa was ordained as a Buddhist monk, entering Nālandā monastery in 1049. His talents as a scholar eventually led him to be selected to serve as abbot and as a senior instructor known by the name Abhayakīrti. In 1057, while at the monastery, he encountered an old hag (in reality a ḍākinī), who told him that he had understood the words of the texts he had studied but not their inner meaning. She urged him to go in search of her brother Tilopa. As a result of this encounter, Nāropa left the monastery to find Tilopa and become his disciple. Over the course of his journey, he encountered Tilopa in various forms but was unable to recognize him. Tilopa eventually revealed himself to Nāropa, subjecting him to a famous series of twelve greater and twelve lesser trials, involving serious physical injury and mental anguish. Tilopa eventually transferred his realization to Nāropa by striking him on the head with his shoe. Nāropa later compiled Tilopa’s instructions and transmitted them to his own disciples. (Source: "Nāropa." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 576. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) People The dates for Nāropa here are from BDRC, https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P3085. However, other sources suggest earlier dates, with a date of birth of 956(?) and a date of death of 1040. Regarding the date of birth, see Newman, John. "The Epoch of the Kālacakra Tantra." Indo-Iranian Journal 41 (1998): 319-349.: 347, note 10.[1]. Regarding the date of death, 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. File:Na ro pa.jpg true true true File:Na ro pa.jpg File:Naropa HAR.jpg|[https://www.himalayanart.org/items/90011Nāropa, Himalayan Art Resources] File:Na ro pa.jpg;File:Naropa HAR.jpg Nāropa Nāropa paṇḍita ནཱ་རོ་པ་ nA ro pa Classical Indian Authors 'jigs med grags pa;Tilopa Classical Mar pa chos kyi blo gros;ma na ka shrI;pra dznyA raksi ta;atiśa;rin chen bzang po 1012/1016 1100 2025-06-13T19:42:46Z 2460840.3213657 2025-06-13T19:42:46Z 2460840.3213657 true Nāropa 0 1 template 3 [[Category:Tibetan Collections]] [[WorkAuthor::Nāropa]] Nāropa# QUERY675602d05d756fb783605b3ef0486d28 0 0 count 2 [[Category:Tibetan Texts]] [[Category:Nāropa]] Nāropa# QUERYa4d3fbd7ff968ca67a20a4fdb070c687 0 200 0 template 2 [[Category:Tibetan Texts]] [[Category:Nāropa]] Nāropa# QUERY2c31964b7b00538921458e07bf79aec9 དཔལ་ནཱ་རོ་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་གེགས་སེལ་གཟེར་ལྔའི་མན་ངག། 0 en དཔལ་ནཱ་རོ་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་གེགས་སེལ་གཟེར་ལྔའི་མན་ངག། གོང་དུ་འཕོ་བའི་མན་ངག། 0 en གོང་དུ་འཕོ་བའི་མན་ངག། གྲུབ་ཆེན་ནཱ་རོ་པའི་གདམས་ངག་ཆོས་དྲུག་སྐོར་གྱི་བཀའ་དཔེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། 0 en གྲུབ་ཆེན་ནཱ་རོ་པའི་གདམས་ངག་ཆོས་དྲུག་སྐོར་གྱི་བཀའ་དཔེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཚིག་བསྡུས་པ། 0 en ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཚིག་བསྡུས་པ། མཁས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་པོ་ནཱ་རོ་ཏཱ་པས་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་ལ་གདམས་པའི་ཆོས་དྲུག་དྲིལ་བ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་མགུར། 0 en མཁས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་པོ་ནཱ་རོ་ཏཱ་པས་རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་ལ་གདམས་པའི་ཆོས་དྲུག་དྲི རྩ་རླུང་དྲྭ་མིག་འཁོར་ལོ། 0 en རྩ་རླུང་དྲྭ་མིག་འཁོར་ལོ། སྙན་བརྒྱུད་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཚིག་རྐང་། 0 en སྙན་བརྒྱུད་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཚིག་རྐང་། སྤྱོད་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གླུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་འབྱུང་བ་རོ་སྙོམས་ཀྱི་གདམས་ངག། 0 en སྤྱོད་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གླུ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་འབྱུང་བ་རོ་སྙོམས་ཀྱི་གདམས་ངག། Associatedpeople 102 en Associatedpeople WorkAuthor 102 en WorkAuthor