Milarepa


Milarepa

(mĭlär`əpə), 1040–1143, saint and poet of Tibetan BuddhismTibetan Buddhism,
form of Buddhism prevailing in the Tibet region of China, Bhutan, the state of Sikkim in India, Mongolia, and parts of Siberia and SW China. It has sometimes been called Lamaism, from the name of the Tibetan monks, the lamas [superior ones].
..... Click the link for more information. . He was the second patriarch of the Kargyupa sect, the first being Milarepa's guru Marpa (1012–97), who studied under Naropa, the Bengali master of Tantra, at Nalanda. Milarepa's autobiography recounts how in his youth he practiced black magic in order to take revenge on relatives who deprived his mother of the family inheritance. He later repented and sought Buddhist teaching. After undergoing many tests and ordeals under Marpa, he received initiation from him. He spent the rest of his life meditating in mountain caves and teaching his disciples.

Bibliography

See L. Lhalunga, The Life of Milarepa (1984).

Milarepa

(tool)A Perl BNF parser generator by Jeffrey Kegler. Milarepa takes a source grammarwritten in a mixture of BNF and Perl and generates Perlsource, which, when enclosed in a simple wrapper, parses thelanguage described by the grammar. Milarepa is not restrictedto LRn grammars, and the parse logic follows directly fromthe BNF. It handles ambiguous grammars, ambiguous tokens(tokens which were not positively identified by the lexer) andallows the programmer to change the start symbol. The grammarmay not be left recursive. The input must be divided intosentences of a finite maximum length. There is no fixeddistinction between terminals and non-terminals, that is, asymbol can both match the input AND be on the left hand sideof a production. Multiple Marpa grammars are allowed in asingle Perl program.

Version: Prototype 1.0.

Posted to comp.lang.perl.

The author is seeking an FTP site to hold the software.