Milarepa Bücher

MILAREPA, einer der bekanntesten spirituellen Lehrer Tibets, hat seinen Erleuchtungsweg in einer Reihe von Liedern und Lehrvorträgen beschrieben. Seine Weisheitsdichtung ist von großem Bilderreichtum, und es gelingt ihm, das Unsagbare zu offenbaren. Eine große Zahl der Texte kreist um das Thema Verwirklichung. Hier wird von den Mühen des Freiwerdens von alten Denk- und Verhaltensweisen erzählt. Konkrete Praktiken der Reinigung, Erleuchtung und des erfüllenden Aufgehens in der absoluten Leere werden vorgestellt. Schließlich besingt MILAREPA immer wieder die Schönheit der Transzendenz, die ihm in der Natur gleichnishaft begegnet. Da MILAREPAS Guru MARPA eine große Rolle für MILAREPAS Entwicklung gespielt hat, wird in den hier übersetzten und kommentierten Liedern auch die Meister-Schüler-Beziehung beleuchtet. Eine Einführung in MILAREPAS Lehren erleichtert dem Leser den Zugang zu diesem großen Erleuchteten.

Jetsun Milarepa, Tibet's renowned and beloved saint, is known for his penetrating insights, wry sense of humor, and ability to render any lesson into spontaneous song. His songs and poems exhibit the bold, inspirational leader as he guided followers along the Buddhist path.More than any other collection of his stories and songs, Drinking the Mountain Stream reveals Milarepa's humor and wisdom. Faithfully translated by Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Brian Cutillo, this rare collection—never before available in any Western language—cuts across the centuries to bring Milarepa's most inspiring verses, in all their potency, to today's reader.

Tibetans accord The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa a classic status comparable to that of the Mahabharata and the Bible, and revere its author as probably the best single exemplar of the religious life. Milarepa was an eleventh-century Buddhist poet and saint, a cotton-clad yogi who avoided the scholarly institutions of his time and wandered from village to village, teaching enlightenment and the path to Buddhahood through his spontaneously composed songs. Wherever he went, crowds of people gathered to hear his sweet sounding voice "singing the Dharma."The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, says the book's translator, "has been read as the biography of a saint, a guide book for devotions, a manual of Buddhist yoga, a volume of songs and poems, and even a collection of Tibetan folklore, and fairy tales." With titles like "The Salvation of the Dead," "A Woman's Role in the Dharma," and "Challenge from a Wise Demoness," Milrepa's poems are filled with fascinating tales of miraculous encounters and colorful imagery, and present a valuable insight into the living quality of Tibetan Buddhism. Central as this book is to Tibetan culture, the arcane dialect and obscurity of many original passages daunted translators for centuries; this was the first complete version of the classic to appear in the West.