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==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://www.tibetanlineages.org/biographies/view/99/6671 Biography at Treasury of Lives]
*[http://www.tibetanlineages.org/biographies/view/99/6671 Biography at Treasury of Lives]
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[[Category:Drukpa Kagyü Masters]]
[[Category:Drukpa Kagyü Masters]]

Revision as of 19:34, 3 October 2011

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 Wangtschug, 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

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