Marpa Lotsawa Choekyi Lodoe

  • He was born in 1012 in Lhodrag. His father‘s name was Wangchuk Oser and his mother’s name was Gyalmo Tso.

  • He began to train himself as a translator from the age of fifteen. He spent twenty three years in India and Nepal, visiting India three times and Nepal four times.

  • He went to Mahapandit Naropa, Maitripa and over one hundred other masters.

  • He received the oral instructions for Guhasamaja and Anyogtara Yoga of both father and mother tantras, and studied the practice.

  • He died in 1097 at the age of eighty five.