P2293: nag po bi rU pa/
Names
- bi rU pa chung ba/ bka' babs bdun ldan [2008] (p. 292)
- shar phyogs birwa pa/ lam 'bras khog phub kyi rnam bshad [mst]
Sanskrit:
- Kāla Virūpa Templeman 1983 (p. 17)
English:
- Eastern Virūpa Stearns 2006 (p. 133)
Biographical data
- born in o Di ya na bka' babs bdun ldan [2008] (pp. 290f.)
h2. Teachers
- grub chen bir wa pa/ (~ca. 7th–8th cent.) bka' babs bdun ldan [2008] (p. 291)
- slob dpon dza landha ra pa/ bka' babs bdun ldan [2008] (p. 291)
h2. Students
- slob dpon nag po bir wa ba/ mentioned as the teacher of Ḍākinī Sukhasiddhī (bde ba'i dngos grub) in su kha siddhi'i lo rgyus [1999]
Events (chronological)
- practitioner in the lineage of Varāhi with Severed Head (bcu gcad ma) Stearns 2006 (p. 133)
Notes
might he be identical with the narrative figure of Virūpākṣa of the South-Asian literary tradition, whose story also seems to be recounted by Śāriputra in bir wa pa'i rnam par thar [mst] and in the bka' babs bdun ldan [mst], here under nag po bi rU pa/)
on Virūpākṣa, see also Mallinson 2019 (pp. 3-7)
the name bi rU pAkSha appears also Padma dkar po's religious history, see 'brug pa'i chos 'byung [1968] (f. 87a)
