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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
Nāropā, with Padmasambhava, Mi, la ras pa, and Tsoṅ k'a pa, is one of the most famous Buddhist teachers in Tibet. He may certainly be considered as one of the most conspicuous factors of Tibetan Buddhism, since he was the spiritual father of Marpa, who is acknowledged as the guru of Milaraspa and the founder of the bKa’ rgyud pa sect. This school later split up into several sub-sects, widely spread even now in Tibet, and through Karma Bakshi allied itself with the rÑiṅ ma pas; but its first teacher or ādiguru is said to have been rDo rje ạc'aṅ, or Vajradhara, whose doctrines were secreṭly transmitted to Tilopā, and by this siddha to Nāropā, who was to exercise through his pupil a great spiritual influence all over Tibet.
page 677 note 2 Tāranātha's Edelsteinmine, Bibliotheca Buddhica, XVIII. Die Geschichten der vierundachtzig Zauberer, Bässler Archiv, v, 4, 5,
page 677 note 3 A commentary upon the Sekoddeśa preserved in the bKa' ạgyur, v. Beckh's, Catalogue, p. 72Google Scholar.
page 678 note 1 In fact, one of the best commentaries upon the “six laws” is that by Tsoṅ k'a pa.
page 678 note 2 I think that the correct spelling of the name is Nāropā and not Nāropa; pā is the Prakritic form of pāda.
page 683 note 1 Tibetan text, p. 49, 1. 17.
page 683 note 2 Ibid., p. 50, 1. 1.
page 683 note 3 Ibid., p. 50,1. 14.
page 683 note 4 Ibid., p. 50, 1. 13.
page 683 note 5 Ibid., p. 50, 1. 20.
page 687 note 1 rGyud t'ams cad kyi rgyal po dpal gSaṅ ba ạdus pai rgya c'er bšad pa sgron ma gsal bai tśig don ji bžin ạbyed pai mc'an gyi yaṅ ạgrel (vol. i of the collected works of Tsoṅ k'a pa, fol. 13).
