The Hundred Thousand Songs. Previous biographies of Milarepa were enlarged with religious poetry and song cycles, which doubled the volume of biographical information. Collected for publication in English translation by the Oriental Studies Foundation in 1962, in 1999 these songs were re-published in a separate volume entitled The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa translated and annotated by Garma C.C. Chang, then in 2017 a new translation by Christopher Stagg of the Nitartha Translation Network, both published by Shambhala. These summarize the various song cycles in chapter eleven of The Life of Milarepa. Historical context Milarepa lived during the so-called second dissemination of Buddhism in Tibet (10th–12th century), when Buddhism was re-introduced. Three pivotal figures in this Tibetan Renaissance were Rinchen Zangpo (958–1055), who translated sutras, tantras and commentaries; Atiśa (982–1054), whose student Dromtön founded the Kadam school of Tibetan Buddhism; and Marpa the Translator, the teacher of Milarepa, and himself regarded as student of Naropa. Marpa introduced tantric texts and oral instructions from the Bengali siddha tradition into Tibet, and Marpa's purported connection with Naropa established the lineage of the Kagyu school, thereby reaching back to the Buddha himself. Gallery See also Detachment (philosophy) Éliane Radigue Kaihōgyō Machig Labdrön Milarepa's Cave Shugendō References Sources Further reading Biography The Life of Milarepa, translated by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa, Book Faith India, 1997, The Life of Milarepa, translated by Andrew Quintman, Penguin Classics, 2010, The Yogin and the Madman: Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa, by Andrew Quintman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Songs of Milarepa The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: A New Translation,Tsangnyön Heruka; under the guidance of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, translated by Christopher Stagg of the Nitartha Translation Network. Boulder, Shambhala, 2017. Milarepa, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, translated by Garma C.C. Chang, City Lights Books, 1999, External links A Reader's Guide to Milarepa Biography on Kagyu website Milarepa: Tibet's Greatest Yogi, created by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche The sixty songs of Milarepa Text, The Essential Songs of Milarepa in English Inviting the demon. (Milarepa, Tibetan Buddhism)(The Shadowissue) Judith Simmer-Brown, Parabola Vol.22 No.2 (Summer 1997) pp. 12–18 Gallery of 22 Milarepa Thangkas by Dharmapala Thangka Centre Original Tibetan text of the biography of Milarepa at the Internet Archive Bronze sculpture of Yogi Milarepa at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Bodhisattvas Scholars of Buddhism from Tibet History of Tibet Politics of Tibet 1050s births 1130s