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'''Maitrīpadā''' ({{Circa|}} 1007–1085, also known as '''Maitrīgupta''', '''Advayavajra''', and, to Tibetans, '''Maitrīpa'''), was a prominent  [[India]]n [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[Mahasiddha]] associated with the [[Mahāmudrā]] transmission of [[Vajrayana|tantric Buddhism]].<ref name=":0">Roberts, Peter Alan, Mahamudra and Related Instructions: Core Teachings of the Kagyu Schools (Library of Tibetan Classics) 2011, p. 11-12.</ref> His teachers were [[Shavaripa]] and [[Naropa]].<ref name=":0" /> His students include [[Atiśa|Atisha]], [[Marpa Lotsawa|Marpa]], Vajrapani, Karopa, Natekara (also known as Sahajavajra), Devākaracandra (also known as Śūnyatāsamādhi), and Rāmapāla.<ref name=":0" /> His hermitage was in the [[Mithila (region)|Mithila]] region (also known as Tirhut), somewhere in northern [[Bihar]] and neighboring parts of southern Nepal.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mahamudra and Related Instructions: Core Teachings of the Kagyu Schools|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzGyzKTZdU4C|date=17 May 2011|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-86171-444-5}}</ref>

As per Tibetan and Nepalese sources, Maitripada was born into a [[Brahmin]] family in [[Magadha]] in a village near [[Kapilavastu]] during the rule of the [[Pala empire]]. His year of birth has been commonly placed 1007 C.E. as per the writings of [[Taranatha]] who places him around the rule of King [[Mahipala]].<ref name=tatz87>{{cite journal |last1=Tatz |first1=Mark |title=The Life of the Siddha-Philosopher Maitrīgupta |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |volume=107 |pages=695–711 |jstor=603308}}</ref>

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