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A Tibetan thangka depicting Milarepa, circa 1900.
A Tibetan thangka depicting Milarepa, circa 1900.
Colour on cloth. 60 x 43,5 cm (112,5 x 70 cm, with brocade framing).
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Milarepa is believed to have reached full buddhahood in his very lifetime, condensing into a single meditative life many lifetimes of evolutionary development by entering the subtle dimension of the dreamlike virtual reality of the Tantric perfection stage yogas. He is called Repa ("cotton-clad"), because his mastery of the dummo fury fire yoga was so powerful that he was able to live more or less naked in the high Himalayan winters.