A information of his life when it is popularly known are from either a tremendously popular romanticized account in a life history the Mi-la-rnams-thar by Gtsang-smyon he-ru-ka rus-pa'we-rgyan-potty (1452-1507), although it can be of confutable historic validity, a biographic details given therein article come depending upon this account or even its derivatives.

Innate in the village of Kya, Ngatsa in Tibet to a prosperous personal he was known as Mila Thöpaga (Thos-pa-dga), which means "A joy to hear". However while his father died Milarepa's uncle & aunty took all the personal's wealth. At his mother's asking Miarepa left front yard & deliberate sorcery. When his Auntie & Uncle were with a perboy to celebrate a imminent marriage of their son, he took his retaliation by stimulating a home it were inside to collapse, killing 35 humans, although the Uncle & Auntie come supposed to keep close at hand survived. the villagers were angry & placed dispatch to search Milarepa, however his mother get a line to him, & he sent a hailstorm to kill their crops.

Milarepthe caring that his retaliation was wrongly placed bent call for a teacher and was led to Marpa the translator. Marpthe proved a strong project master, & prior to he would teach him experienced Milarepa build and so demolish terzetto houses successively. While Marpa however refused to teach Milarepa he attend Marpa's married woman, world health organizatiin took pity on him. She forged the letter of introduction to a second teacher, Lama Ngogdun Chudor, under whose tutelage he began to practise meditation. Yet after he was making there is no progress, he confessed a forgery & Ngogdun Chudor said that it was vain to hope for spiritual incubation forswearing a guru's approval. Milarepa returned to Marpa, & when practicing super diligently for xii years Milarepa attained a state of vajradhara (complete enlightenment). He is said to become a number of these to achieve this state in one life. He so became called Milarepa, which means a "Mila, the cotton clad one" (a postfix "repa" is given to numerous tantric yogis since it get into whiten robes) At a age of forty-5, he began to practice at Drakar Taso (White Rock Horse Tooth) cave, when well as becoming the mobile teacher.

Milarepa is illustrious for several of his songs & verse form, where he expresses a profundity of his realization of the dharma with extraordinary clarity and beauty. He too experienced numbers of adherent, which include Rechung Dorje Drakpa (Ras-chung Rdo-rje Grags-pa)), Gampopa (Sgam-po-pa) or Dhakpo Lhaje. It was Gampopa who became his spiritual successor who continued his lineage & became one of a independent lineage masters around Milarepa's tradition.