# @rubinmuseum on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-03-13T14:24:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (@rubinmuseum) — https://gondola.cc/rubinmuseum

## Caption

"Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others." - Milarepa 
 
Today is the anniversary of Milarepa’s parinirvana day and tomorrow is the anniversary of his teacher Marpa’s parinirvana day. Milarepa is a great disciple of Marpa and the two are a well-known teacher and student pair within #Buddhist history. Marpa Chokyi Lodro was born in southern Tibet in the year 1012 AD. 

Throughout his life, he journeyed to Nepal and India, went through great hardship, and studied with great Indian masters, including the famed Mahasiddha Naropa. After this, he went back to Tibet and founded the Kagyu tradition which has four major and eight minor subsects. Among his many great disciples, Milarepa (1052–1135) was the foremost disciple of Marpa. 

Milarepa was born in the Gungthang province of western Tibet and endured a harsh life after the death of his father. He studied under Marpa, and after his studies, he went into the mountains to meditate for many years and compose the Hundred Thousand Song. 

Among many profound teachings transmitted from Marpa to Milarepa, Mahamudra—the teaching of the great seal—is perhaps the most well-known transmission from these two great masters. This teaching spread to many other Tibetan Buddhist traditions and is still practiced to this day.
 
In this rare and illuminative 16th-century painting, we see Marpa on the left and Milarepa on the right. The figures above contain 46 buddha figures representing a portion of the One Thousand Buddhas of this Aeon. Above the two central figures are four forms of the meditational deity Hevajra on which tantra Marpa taught and wrote extensive commentaries. 

Among the bottom figures, we see famous philosophers such as Nagarjuna, Asanga, Aryadeva, Chandrakirti, and important Marpa Kagyu and Karma Kagyu teachers, including Gampopa, and the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje. 

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Marpa (1012–1096) and Milarepa (1052–1135); Tibet; 16th century; pigments on cloth; Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art; gift of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; F1997.39.5 (HAR 562)

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