Tibetan accords Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa a classic status comparable to that of the Mahabhartha and the Bible, and revare its author as probably the best single exampler of the religious life. Milarepa was an Eleventh century Buddhist poet and saint, a cotton clad yogi who avoided the scholary institutions of his time and wandred from village to village, teaching enlightenment and the path to buddhahood through his spontaneously composed songs.
