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	Naropa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Naropa (Tibetan; Sanskrit: Nadaprada, 1016-1100) was an Indian Buddhist mystic and monk, the pupil of Tilopa and brother, or some sources say partner, of Niguma.
		Naropa is part of the Golden Garland, meaning a lineage holder of the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu lineage, and was considered an accomplished scholar.
		Naropa was born a Brahmin and from an early age showed an independent streak, hoping to follow a career of study and meditation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naropa (599 words)

	Diamondway-Teaching.Org - Meditation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Naropa replied that he had understood that the fire is like the instructions of the lama, and the cotton cloth is like the concepts of his mind.
		Naropa said that he understood it to mean that the lama is like a wish fulfilling gem, since through him it is possible to develop all ordinary and extraordinary siddhis and accomplishments.
		Naropa said that he understood it to mean that the student's mind is disturbed by all the disturbing emotions, whereas the instructions from the lama are to cool down the disturbed mind.
	www.diamondway-teachings.org /content/kenpochodrak/text/naropa2.html (3109 words)

	KTD--Marpa Lotsawa-- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Naropa was very pleased to see and meet with Marpa, and he said to him, "At this time I am going to reveal a teaching that has never been introduced in the snowy country of Tibet ever in the past.
		Naropa seemed to be reading his mind, and with a smile on his face, he opened his palms, and all the gold dust that he had thrown in the air was now again in his palm.
		Naropa, seeing that Marpa's blessing was being taken away by a fl crow, pointed his finger toward the crow, and at that moment, both the crow and the blessing fell to the ground.
	kagyu.org /karmapa/kag/kag04.html (2631 words)

	Life History of Naropa
		Naropa's years at Nalanda were mostly engaged in intellectual activities until an old and ugly woman – who was in fact a manifestation of Vajra Yogini – appeared before him and made him realize that he was not managing to break through his spiritual misconceptions and misunderstandings.
		Naropa himself was said to live until AD1050 or 1100 (according to the different sources) and then resurrected into light, leaving no physical remains.
		Amongst Naropa's accomplished disciples was Marpa, the translator, who succeeded Naropa in the lineage and brought the teachings and transmissions in their entirety to Tibet.
	www.drukpa.com /drukpa_lineage/naropa_history.htm (684 words)

	KTD--Naropa-- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Naropa was surprised to hear that Tilopa was a fisherman but he immediately remembered that all his recent experiences had actually been manifestations of his guru, and he realized that if he had to meet his teacher in the form of a fisherman, it must be because of his impure mind.
		Naropa prostrated to Tilopa as a gesture of respect and asked to be accepted as his student.
		Naropa tried to follow Tilopa, but although Tilopa appeared to be walking normally, and although Naropa was running, he was unable to catch up, no matter how fast he ran.
	www.kagyu.org /karmapa/kag/kag03.html (1708 words)

	Diamondway-Teaching.Org - Meditation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Naropa's father, full of joy, told Naropa the girl was found and soon he would invite her to come.
		Naropa had just demonstrated his desire by staying for so long and his anger by getting upset when he was beaten.
		Naropa thought he might not be able to meet his teacher in this life, so he decided to make very strong wishes that he would be able to meet him in his next life, and he was planning to kill himself.
	www.diamondway-teachings.org /content/kenpochodrak/text/naropa1.html (3375 words)

	Naropa - The Gyalwang Drukpa's website
		Naropa unveiled his spiritual goal to his wife and she decided not to be a hindrance on his path.
		Naropa took the vows of a novice monk at the Happy Garden Monastery and was subsequently fully ordained in Kashmir.
		Although Naropa was well-versed in the theoretical aspects of Buddhism, he realized that he was still inept in the training of his restless mind.
	www.drukpa.org /eng/lineage/naropa.htm (364 words)

	Naropa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Naropa thought to himself: "If she gets so excited about me saying I understand the words, what is she going to be like when I tell her I understand the meaning as well!" go to whole teaching
		Naropa's life is very reminiscent of the twelve stages of the life of the Buddha.
		Naropa did this for some time, performing many miracles, and eventually returned to Tilopa, who removed the last remaining traces of impurity in Naropa's mind—in particular the latter's feeling of a need to meditate—by revealing to him, in all its fullness, mind's innate purity since beginningless time.
	www.samyeling.org /Buddhism/Tibetan_Buddhism/naropa.htm (1199 words)

	Karmapa website - Kagyu Lineage - Naropa
		Naropa is one of the most prominent and authoritative Indian mahasiddhas and masters of mahahudra and tantra.
		Naropa, known as Abhayakirti ('jig med grags pa) Jnanasiddhi, was born in Kashmir into the Brahmin caste, according to Taranatha and other sources, who say that he was born in a place called Jambu (Shrinagar, according to Guenther) in eastern part of India.
		Naropa was unable to persuade him not to roast the fish alive, and the other monks jumped up and began to run towards the old man to stop him from killing.
	www.kagyuoffice.org /kagyulineage.naropa.html (1236 words)

	The Lifestory Of Naropa (Part 1, by Khenpo Chodrak Rinpoche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Naropa was a scholar in the tenth century.
		The impurity of his mind that he should have purified at this time was his clinging to the concept of himself as a monk.
		Naropa still had some doubts in his mind because he was a monk and not supposed to kill any living being.
	www.diamondway.org /bt/naropa1.htm (3358 words)

	Naropa University Shambhala Sun Jan 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Naropa was named for an eleventh-century Buddhist teacher, one of the founders of the Kagyü school of tantric Buddhism.
		The idea of Naropa is not to hold and protect, argued another group, but to proclaim and encourage the wisdom and compassion that exist everywhere.
		At Naropa there is a quality of unlearning that is related to fully appreciating yourself as a human being, rather than as a professional or an expert in some field.
	www.shambhalasun.com /Archives/Features/2000/Jan00/naropa.htm (3079 words)

	Naropa University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Naropa University is a private, liberal arts university in Boulder, Colorado, which was founded in 1974 by Chogyam Trungpa.
		It is a Buddhist inspired institution, and is the only major accredited Buddhist university in North America.
		Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa.
	www.westminster.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Naropa_Institute (209 words)

	The Life Story of Naropa (Part 2), by Khenpo Chodrak Rinpoche (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Naropa explained that he and his wife were having a very difficult time.
		Naropa cut himself, and with his own blood he sprinkled the ground so that the dust disappeared.
		Naropa was able to get the essence of those teachings and to spread them to other beings.
	www.diamondway.org /bt/naropa2.htm (4157 words)

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		Naropa students who had paid to participate in Cruz’s classes and in other classes offered at Naropa through their "Environmental Studies" department were encouraged to participate in "experiential learning" that amounted to recreated Lakota -style ceremonies, represented as bona fide Lakota ceremonies, initiated and supervised by non-Lakota people and, typically, by non-Indian People.
		Naropa has an implicit duty to provide adequate education and to ensure that its students are protected from harassment on its campus.
		Naropa was motivated by a desire to protect its lucrative "Native American Studies" program from being revealed as the empty sham that it was.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/9672 (2847 words)

	Simhanada --- Naropa
		Due to Naropa’s karma and impure view, he saw the old woman (who was actually the enlightened female being Vajrayogini) with the thirty two marks of ugliness, which represented the thirty two defects of our realm of suffering.
		Naropa, in his search, underwent twelve minor hardships --all which were manifestations of Tilopa trying to reduce the negative karma of his future disciple.
		This purified Naropa of all the remaining obstacles, and afterward Tilopa bestowed transmission and empowerment.
	www.simhas.org /kl6.html (911 words)

	Naropa: His Personal Teaching of Obedience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Naropa repented on his journey and found a man who was tearing out the intestines of a corpse who asked Naropa to help in this matter as a precondition to telling him the place of Tilopa.
		On Naropa’s journey there was a city which was controlled by a king who liked Naropa so much that he wanted to marry his daughter to Naropa and said he would tell him the address of Tilopa after the marriage was performed.
		Naropa met a dark man with a pack of hounds and a bow and arrows and was asked by the dark man to help him to first kill a deer and then he would tell him the place where Tilopa was.
	www.yogichen.org /chenian/bk94.html (3084 words)

	The Shambhala Archvies Naropa Institute fond
		The Naropa Institute was named after Naropa, a renowned Buddhist scholar, teacher, and practitioner, who had served as Nalanda University's abbot in the eleventh century.
		In July, 1978, Naropa was granted candidacy for accreditation by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, although the Institute was not fully accredited until 1986.
		Researchers seeking further information about the early years of the Naropa Institute should note that a binder of newspaper clippings relating to the activities of the Institute and its faculty from the years 1974 to 1980 was compiled by the Nalanda Foundation Information Office, and is now held in the offices of the Shambhala Archives.
	www.shambhalashop.com /archives/vidnaro.html (1375 words)

	Naropa University Oakland (MLA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The deliberate choice to place Naropa Oakland in downtown Oakland allows our learning community to explore the meaning and possibilities of an urban spirituality in a time when almost fifty percent of the human race is living in cities.
		Naropa University of Boulder, Colorado, opened a branch campus at the site of the University of Creation Spirituality (UCS) in Oakland, California, in the Spring of 1999.
		The Naropa University was founded in 1974 by Tibetan master and scholar Chogyam Trungpa, and is patterned after an 11th century university renowned for joining intellect, intuition, and contemplative traditions.
	www.creationspirituality.org /naropamla.html (3826 words)

	Amazon.com: The Six Yogas of Naropa: Tsongkhapa's Commentary: Books: Glenn H. Mullin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Naropa was a disciple of the Indian mahasiddha Tilopa (b.
		Naropa (or, in a less Tibetanized form, Naro) was an Indian Buddhist sage, renowned in Tibet as one of the teachers of Marpa the Translator (born 1012), whose several disciples stand at the heads of many teaching lineages, and the Monastic Orders with which they or their own disciples are associated.
		The "Six Doctrines/Yogas/Teachings of Naropa" are a set of advanced Tantric techniques, which Marpa is said to have received from Naropa; although there is some dispute over whether this synthesis was Naropa's or he himself had derived it from his teacher, Tilopa.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559392347?v=glance (2508 words)

	Voices from Naropa \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There would be no Jack, of course, as Jack died before Naropa was even a drip in Trungpa's pants.
		If you're interested in the academic part of what Naropa was like for the students, satapher recently posted a link to site of mine called Ginsberg's Celestial Homework.
		Fasanaro mentioning this in the context of a conversation we had about freshman year at SJC, which is a pressure cooker and tends to weed out students unfit for the rigor of the program, not unlike med or law schools do.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/33860 (1388 words)

	Karmapa website - Kagyu Lineage - Marpa
		On his third visit, Marpa went through an adventure in finding Naropa, because Naropa, having already entered into the tantric conduct, was nowhere to be found.
		At that time, Naropa prophesied that a family lineage would not continue for Marpa, but that his lineage would be carried on by disciples—especially one with the appearance of a monk and the inner realization of Mahayana.
		Naropa in general had seven major disciples including Paindapa, Chitherpa, Shri Shantibhadra or Kukuripa, and Maitripa.
	www.kagyuoffice.org /kagyulineage.marpa.html (603 words)

	LitKicks: Naropa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Naropa Institute itself was created by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a remarkable Chinese/Tibetan guru whose confrontational, unpredictable teaching style was smart enough to impress Allen Ginsberg into fully adopting the Buddhist religion.
		Years later, when Ginsberg complained that he was not taken seriously due to his hippie image, Trungpa commanded him to begin wearing suits at public gatherings, which Ginsberg did for the rest of his life.
		The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, the poetry school at the Naropa Institute has been a tremendously positive force in the American post-Beat poetry scene for decades.
	www.litkicks.com /Places/Naropa.html (323 words)

	Special Collections - Allen Ginsberg Library \| Naropa University
		The Naropa audio tape collection consists of over six thousand tapes of events at Naropa University over its thirty year life span.
		Many were created by Naropa faculty or visiting artists such as Ted Berrigan, Robert Creeley, Diane DiPrima, and many others.
		The project is a joint effort on the part of Naropa and the Yesod Foundation.
	library.naropa.edu /about/special_collections.htm (476 words)

	Internet Archive: Naropa Audio Archives
		Sam Charters lecture on Jack Kerouac and jazz at the Jack Kerouac conference, sponsored by the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
		The Naropa University Archive Project is preserving and providing access to over 5000 hours of recordings made at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
		The Naropa University Archive Project seeks to enhance appreciation and understanding of post-World War II American literature and its role in social change, cultural criticism, and the literary arts through widespread dissemination of the actual voices of the poets and writers of this period.
	www.archive.org /details/naropa (458 words)

	Summer Writing Program
		The Summer Writing Program at Naropa University is a four-week-long convocation of students, poets, scholars, fiction writers, translators, performance artists, activists, Buddhist teachers, musicians, printers, editors and others working in small press publishing.
		In dialogue with renowned practitioners, students engage in the composition of poetry, prose fiction, cross-genre possibilities, inter-arts, translation and writing for performance.
		It also serves each year as a third semester for Naropa’s accredited MFA in Writing and Poetics and as the residency component for Naropa’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing, complementing each year with an intensive summer learning experience.
	www.naropa.edu /swp (469 words)

	Graduate Programs at Naropa University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The MFA in Creative Writing is a low-residency degree program that reflects the standards and qualities of the residential Writing and Poetics program.
		Naropa University's MFA in Theater program offers two areas of concentration: Contemporary Performance and Lecoq Based Actor Created Theater.
		Naropa University's Department of Writing and Poetics was inaugurated as the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman in 1974.
	schools.gradschools.com /graduate-schools/naropa-university-co.html (1205 words)

	Naropa Collection \| Creative Commons
		Coldcut) have used Burroughs and Ginsberg for a while and continue to do so.
		Thanks to the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics from Naropa University, you can hear hundreds of hours of lectures and readings by Burroughs, Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Amiri Baraka and others all of which have been posted to the Archive as part of the Naropa Collection.
		The entire Naropa Collection is licensed under a Attribution-NonDerivs-NonCommerical license.
	creativecommons.org /weblog/entry/4251 (275 words)

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