Jetsun Milarepa has been a tantric master and founder of the Kagyü schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He is said to be one of the greatest yogis who carried on Marpa’s transmission lineage of mahamudra and moreover to be the greatest poet of Tibet. His “hundred thousand songs” which express his life story as well as the tantric teachings in verses are famous.
Performing black magic, Milarepa caused the death of many people. His teacher Marpa caused him to remove this accumulated bad karma by working hard. Not before that he granted the special tantric teachings to him which he himself had received from Naropa and other masters. Milarepa’s most famous disciples were Gampopa and Rechungpa. |