The Magic Life of Milarepa, by Eva van Dam. Highlights from the life of Milarepa, Tibet's Great Yogi.

Part One of a 4-part hagiography of Marpa the Translator, who brought the Kagyu Buddhist teachings to Tibet in the 11th century.

The summarized biography of Milarepa - one of the most widely known Tibetan Saints. In a superhuman effort, he rose above the miseries of his younger life and with the help of his Guru, Marpa the Translator, took to a solitary life of meditation until he had achieved the pinnacle of the enlightened state, never to be born again into the Samsara (whirlpool of life and death) of worldly ...