P2293: ནག་པོ་བི་རཱུ་པ།

• born in ཨོ་ཌི་ཡ་ན bka' babs bdun ldan [2008] (pp. 290f.)

h2. Teachers

• གྲུབ་ཆེན་བིར་ཝ་པ། (~ca. 7th–8th cent.) bka' babs bdun ldan [2008] (p. 291)
• སློབ་དཔོན་ཛ་ལནདྷ་ར་པ། bka' babs bdun ldan [2008] (p. 291)

h2. Students

• སློབ་དཔོན་ནག་པོ་བིར་ཝ་བ། mentioned as the teacher of Ḍākinī Sukhasiddhī (བདེ་བའི་དངོས་གྲུབ) in su kha siddhi'i lo rgyus [1999]

• practitioner in the lineage of Varāhi with Severed Head (བཅུ་གཅད་མ) Stearns 2006 (p. 133)

• 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 ནག་པོ་བི་རཱུ་པ།)

• on Virūpākṣa, see also Mallinson 2019 (pp. 3-7)

• the name བི་རཱུ་པཱཀཥ appears also Padma dkar po's religious history, see 'brug pa'i chos 'byung [1968] (f. 87a)