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'''Lorepa Wangchuk Tsöndrü''' (Tib. ལོ་རས་པ་དབང་ཕྱུག་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་, [[Wyl.]] ''lo ras pa dbang phyug brtson 'grus'') (1187-1250) was an accomplished [[yogin]] who spent many years meditating in isolated retreat. An important master in the early history of the [[Drukpa Kagyü]] tradition who founded several monasteries in the later part of his life, he was a disciple of [[Tsangpa Gyaré Yeshe Dorje]].

==Alternative Names==
* Lorepa, ལོ་རས་པ་, ''lo ras pa'', 
* Gyalwa Lorepa Wangchuk Tsöndru, རྒྱལ་བ་ལོ་རས་པ་དབང་ཕྱུག་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་, ''rgyal ba lo ras pa dbang phyug brtson 'grus'', 
* Uripa, དབུ་རི་པ་, ''dbu ri pa'', 
* Gyalwa Lorepa, རྒྱལ་བ་ལོ་རས་པ་, ''rgyal ba lo ras pa'', 
* Lorepa Darma Wangchuk, ལོ་རས་པ་དར་མ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, ''lo ras pa dar ma dbang phyug''

==Further Reading==
*Nālandā Translation Committee, ''The Rain of Wisdom'', Shambhala Publications, 1980
*Nālandā Translation Committee, 'The Yogin Lorepa's Retreat at Lake Namtso' in Donald S. Lopez (ed.) ''Religions of Tibet in Practice'', Princeton University Press, 1997

==External Links==
*[http://www.tibetanlineages.org/biographies/view/99/6671 Biography at Treasury of Lives]
*{{TBRC|P4252|TBRC Profile}}

[[Category:Drukpa Kagyü Masters]]