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'''Virupa''' (Skt. ''Virūpa''; [[Wyl.]] ''bi ru pa'' or ''bir wa pa'') was one of the [[eighty-four mahasiddhas]] of India and an important source of the teachings set down in the [[Lamdré]] of the [[Sakya]] school. He is also known by the name '''Tutop Wangchuk''' ([[Wyl.]] ''mthu stobs dbang phyug'').
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'''Virupa''' (Skt. ''Virūpa''; Tib. [[བི་རུ་པ་]], བི་ཝ་པ་, [[Wyl.]] ''bi ru pa'' or ''bir wa pa'') was one of the [[eighty-four mahasiddhas]] of India and an important source of the teachings set down in the [[Lamdré]] of the [[Sakya]] school. He is also known by the name '''Tutop Wangchuk''' (Tib. མཐུ་སྟོབས་དབང་ཕྱུག་, [[Wyl.]] ''mthu stobs dbang phyug''). Acting as the abbott of  Nalanda university, he secretly practiced [[Tantra]] during night time and eventually encountered a vision of [[Nairatmya]] who provided him with sub-sequent empowerments. Due to his controversial tantric behavior after this event he left the university and took the name 'Virūpa (ugly one.)


==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://www.tbrc.org/link?RID=P3293 TBRC་ Profile]
*{{TBRC|P3293|TBRC Profile}}
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=331 Himalayan Art]
*[http://virupa.wz.cz The Life Of Mahasiddha Virupa by Lama Choedak]


[[Category:Indian Masters]]
[[Category:Indian Masters]]
[[Category:Sakya]]
[[Category:Sakya]]

Revision as of 20:55, 8 February 2017

Virupa

Virupa (Skt. Virūpa; Tib. བི་རུ་པ་, བི་ཝ་པ་, Wyl. bi ru pa or bir wa pa) was one of the eighty-four mahasiddhas of India and an important source of the teachings set down in the Lamdré of the Sakya school. He is also known by the name Tutop Wangchuk (Tib. མཐུ་སྟོབས་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wyl. mthu stobs dbang phyug). Acting as the abbott of Nalanda university, he secretly practiced Tantra during night time and eventually encountered a vision of Nairatmya who provided him with sub-sequent empowerments. Due to his controversial tantric behavior after this event he left the university and took the name 'Virūpa (ugly one.)

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