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 ==Marpa Chökyi Lodrö==
+This query has entries in the MITRA Lexicon: Tibetan (15) (https://dictionary.dharmamitra.org/?q=marpa+ch%C3%B6kyi+lodr%C3%B6&par=bo&ui=en)
+==Translation==
+Marpa Chökyi Lodrö (1012–1097), often known simply as Marpa the Translator (Mar pa Lo tsā ba), was a pivotal figure in the Later Diffusion (phyi dar) of Buddhism in Tibet and the founding father of the Marpa Kagyu (mar pa bka' brgyud) tradition. Journeying three times to India and four times to Nepal, he received direct transmissions of the Mahāmudrā teachings and the Anuttarayogatantras—chiefly from the Indian mahāsiddhas Nāropā and Maitrīpā—and brought these lineages to Tibet, transmitting them to disciples such as Milarepa.
+==Analysis and Introduction==
+Marpa Lotsāwa Chökyi Lodrö (མར་པ་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས) stands as one of the most prominent lay yogins and translators in Tibetan Buddhist history. Born in Lhodrak in southern Tibet, he acquired Sanskrit proficiency under Drogmi Lotsāwa before undertaking arduous journeys to northern India. There, under the guidance of Nāropā, he mastered the Catuṣpīṭha, Hevajra, Guhyasamāja, and Cakrasaṃvara tantras, as well as the esoteric instructions on the Six Dharmas of Nāropā (nā ro chos drug) and Mahāmudrā (phyag rgya chen po).
+Within Tibetan textual discourse, Marpa is celebrated not only for his profound translation activity and transmission lineages, but also as an exemplar of the realized lay tantric practitioner. In later Tibetan instruction manuals and gsung 'bum collections—such as the teachings of Jigten Sumgön preserved in the Drikung Kagyu tradition—Marpa is invoked as a peerless siddha whose spontaneous, unorthodox conduct arose from supreme realization. Later teachers caution ordinary practitioners against superficial imitation of Marpa's unconventional lifestyle without possessing his transcendent wisdom, noting that imitating the leaps of a lion without a lion's capability leads only to downfall.
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+སྐྱོབ་པ་འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་མགོན་གྱི་ཚོགས་ཆོས་ཟིན་བྲིས།
+Original: ཨ་བུ་རྣམས་ལ་ཁུངས་འབྱིན་ལོ་བྱས་པས། སེང་གེས་མཆོངས་སར་བོང་རྒན་གྱིས་མཆོངས་པས་སྐེད་པ་ཆགས་པ་ཡིན་པས། སྙད་མུ་གེ་ལ་བཏགས་ནས་སྣམ་བུ་བོར་ཚོང་མ་བྱེད། དེ་ལྟ་བུ་གང་བྱས་ཀྱང་རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཡབ་སྲས་ཀྱི་ཞབས་འདྲེན་འགྲོ་བ་དང་སོ་སོ་ཡང་ནག་ཧྲུལ་གྱིས་འགྲོ་བ་ཡིན་ཏེ། དེ་ལ་རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཡབ་སྲས་ནི་མཁས་པ་དང་བཙུན་པས་གཞན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལས་ཁྱད་པར་དུ་འཕགས་པ་ཡིན་པས།
+Translation: Claiming to take such siddhas as your authority, you are like an old donkey attempting to leap where a lion leaps, breaking its back in the process. Do not sell woolen cloth at a loss under the pretext of famine. Whatever is done in that manner brings disgrace upon the precious lord, father and sons, and exposes one to ruin. In this regard, the precious lord, father and sons, being exceedingly learned and venerable, are distinguished far above all others.
+སྐྱོབ་པ་འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་མགོན་གྱི་ཚོགས་ཆོས་ཟིན་བྲིས། (Ein Strom von Nektar) · BO_EGS_0008:805 View segment
+Published English translation (Ein Strom von Nektar: Öffentliche Dharma-Unterweisungen, Aufzeichnungen von Ön Sherab Jungne):
+Die Art und Weise, in der Meister Marpa praktiziert hat, und die der anderen ist jedoch nicht dieselbe. Indem ihr vorgebt, euch auf Siddhas wie diesen zu berufen, brecht ihr euch wie ein alter Esel, der dorthin springt, wohin ein Löwe sprang, das Rückgrat. Verkauftalso nicht unter dem Vorwand von Hunger [teure] Stoffe aus Schafwolle unter ihrem Wert. Alles derart Praktizierte wird zur Schande für Kyobpa Jigten Sumgön und seine spirituellen Nachkommen, und man selbst stellt sich ebenso bloß. Insofern sind Kyobpa Jigten Sumgön und seine spirituellen Nachkommen weise und ehrwürdig und von daher im Vergleich zu all den anderen herausragend.
+— translation by Könchog Yeshe Metog (Claudia Jürgens); published by Edition Garchen Stiftung (2014)