Lawapa Explained

Lawapa or Lavapa ([1]) was a figure in Tibetan Buddhism who flourished in the 10th century. He was also known as Kambala and Kambalapada (Sanskrit:). Lawapa, was a mahasiddha, or accomplished yogi, who travelled to Tsari.[2] Lawapa was a progenitor of the Dream Yoga sādhanā and it was from Lawapa that the mahasiddha Tilopa received the Dream Yoga practice lineage.

Bhattacharya,[3] while discussing ancient Bengali literature, proffers that Lawapa composed the Kambalagītika ("Lawapa's Song")[4] and a few songs of realization in the Charyapada.[5]

Simmer-Brown (2001: p. 57) when conveying the ambiguity of ḍākinīs in their "worldly" and "wisdom" guises conveys a detailed narrative that provides the origin of Lawapa's name:

Nomenclature, orthography and etymology

Alternate English orthographies are Lwabapa, Lawapa and Lvapa.[6] An alternate English nomenclature for Lawapa is Kambala.

Hevajra

The Hevajra Tantra, a yoginī tantra of the anuttarayogatantra class, is held to have originated between the late eighth century C.E. (Snellgrove[7]), and the "late ninth or early tenth century" (Davidson[8]), in Eastern India, possibly Bengal. Tāranātha lists Saroruha and Kampala (also known as "Lva-va-pā, "Kambhalī", and "Śrī-prabhada") as its "bringers":

... the foremost yogi Virūpā meditated on the path of Yamāri and attained siddhi under the blessings of Vajravārāhi,...His disciple Dombi Heruka...understood the essence of the Hevajra Tantra, and composed many śāstras like the Nairātmā-devi-sādhana and the Sahaja-siddhi. He also conferred abhiṣeka on his own disciples. After this, two ācāryas Lva-va-pā and Saroruha brought the Hevajra Tantra. ... Siddha Sarouha was the first to bring the Hevajra-pitṛ-sādhana.[9]

Principal teachers

The Tibetan Buddhism Resource Center[10] (2006) identifies three principal teachers of Lawapa:

Principal students

The Tibetan Buddhism Resource Center [10] (2006) identifies two principal students of Lawapa:

See also

Notes

  1. "Wa ba pa" (Tibetan) holds the semantic field "the one with goitre". Source: http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/bot/bot_12_01_03.pdf (accessed: January 30, 2008).
  2. Dharma Dictionary (2008). la ba pa. Source: http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/la_ba_pa (accessed: January 29, 2008)
  3. http://tanmoy.tripod.com/ Bhattacharya Bhattacharya
  4. Source: Web site: Archived copy . 2008-01-30 . dead . https://archive.today/20120716230150/http://tibet.que.ne.jp/otani/2002lecture_note/Tib_Cat_all_data.txt . 2012-07-16 . (accessed: January 30, 2008)
  5. Bhattacharya, Tanmoy (2005). Literature in Ancient Bengal. Source: http://tanmoy.tripod.com/bengal/literature.html (accessed: January 30, 2008)
  6. Simmer-Brown, Judith (2001). Dakini's Warm Breath: the Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism. Boston, USA: Shambhala. (alk. paper): p. 57; p. 311
  7. Snellgrove, D.L. (1959). The Hevajra Tantra: A Critical Study. (London Oriental Series, Vol. 6) London: Oxford University Press. p. 14 (Volume 1)
  8. Davidson, Ronald M.(2005). "Tibetan Renaissance: Tantric Buddhism in the Rebirth of Tibetan Culture." Columbia University Press, NY. p.41
  9. Chattopadhyana, Debiprasad (ed.) (1970). Taranatha's History of Buddhism in India. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla. p.245-246
  10. Web site: Tibetan Buddhism Resource Center . 2008-01-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080228083108/http://www.tbrc-dlms.org/index.xq . 2008-02-28 . dead .
  11. The Tibetan Buddhism Resource Center (2006). kambha la pa. Source: http://www.tbrc-dlms.org/kb/tbrc-detail.xq;jsessionid=4A8DD7A30079F99A8B90D7F605BEC6E8?RID=P0RK287&wylie=n (accessed: January 30, 2008)

Further reading

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