A Popular Dictionary of Buddhism
Lit. ‘Mila, the cotton clad.’ (1038–1122). Tibet’s greatest saint, poet and magician. ‘One of the most extraordinary personalities that Asia has produced’ (Maraini).
One of the Founders and the greatest figure in the Kargyut-pa School. Beginning as a great sinner, he became Tibet’s most spectacular saint, and his Life. the Jetsün Kahbum, by his pupil Rechung, describes the entire process of conversion in detail. See Evans-Wentz, Tibet’s Great Yogi Milarepa (1928). In iconography he has his right hand to his ear, listening to the hymns he set down in such abundance. (See Marpa.)
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