is called Mila Repa because as a great yogin and master of “mystical heat” he wore only a simple white cloth, or repa, even in deepest winter: his “songs” or hortatory verses, as transcribed by his disciples, are still beloved in Tibet. Like Sakyamuni, he is said to have attained nirvana in a single lifetime, and his teaching as he prepared for death might have been uttered by the Buddha:
