ABSTRACT
Tibetan accounts of the life of Rechungpa (Ras-chung-pa) (1084-161) and of his teacher Milarepa (Mi-la Ras-pa) (1040-123) climaxed in 1488 with Tsangnyön Heruka’s (gTsang-smyon He-ru-ka) The Life of Milarepa1 and The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa,2 and in the sixteenth century with The Life of Rechungpa3 by Tsangnyön Heruka’s pupil, Götsang Repa.4
