Naropa's Prophecy and the Kagyu Lineage

A Journey to the West L26

A Journey to the West: Episode 26 — Naropa's Prophecy and the Kagyu Lineage In this episode, Khenpo Sodargye continues recounting His Holiness's teachings on the Kagyu lineage, featuring Naropa's famous verse of praise for Milarepa and the miraculous story of mountains and trees bowing toward Tibet. Through Milarepa's prophetic dream of the four pillars and eagle, we learn about Marpa's four great disciples and the three main transmission paths of the Kagyu tradition.

💬 Words of Wisdom

"Like the sun shining on the snow mountain, in the northern land, in a place of darkness, there is one called Mila Thopaga. To this venerable one, I prostrate." — Naropa's verse of praise "I treat him as the one more important than my heart." — Marpa speaking of Milarepa "To follow this path, the disciple must first understand the very nature of suffering in cyclic existence and generate the mind of renunciation." — His Holiness's teaching "Renunciation, bodhicitta, and the nondual wisdom view — these are the three principal aspects of the path." — The essential practice "——" A profound teaching on the Kagyu lineage's miraculous origins and the complete path of practice — may the blessings of the lineage masters illuminate all beings.