Virūpa

 

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNamePhon	Virupa
MainNameTib	བི་རུ་པ་
MainNameWylie	bi ru pa
MainNameDev	विरूप
MainNameSkt	Virūpa, Birwapa
SortName	Virūpa
AltNamesTib	བི་ཝ་པ་  ·  མཐུ་སྟོབས་དབང་ཕྱུག་
AltNamesWylie	bir wa pa  ·  bi rU pa  ·  mthu stobs dbang phyug
BiographicalInfo	(bir wa pa), one of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas of India, was born into a royal family one thousand and twenty years after Lord Buddha entered parinirvana. He took novice monk vows and entered the Nalanda monastery, of which he became abbot later. He perfected his disciples of study and meditation. However, after seventy years of one-pointed tantric practice he had not attained any siddhis of any kind, and actually negative events were happening in his life. He decided he had no connection with the tantric teachings, Vajrayana, and with this state of mind he threw his rosary into the toilet and stopped doing Deity Meditations. However, the same night Nairatmya manifested for him, and said: Noble son, do not act in this way. Pick up your rosary, clean it, and take up your practice again. I am the deity which whom you have a karmic connection to, and I will bestow my blessings upon you". The following evening Nairatmya appeared to him again in her own mandala of fifteen goddesses, and she bestowed upon him the four specific empowerments, and he reached the first bodhisattva bhumi level including the Path of Seeing. On the evening of the twenty-ninth day he became a bodhisattva of the sixth bhumi. The monastic community at Nalanda monastery knew that something strange happened, but they were dubious about the strange behavior of Virupa, and he left the monastery. RYWIKI
YearBirth	7th century CE
BornIn	Bengal, India
ClassicalProfAff	Mahasiddha
TeacherOf	Ḍombhi Heruka
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P3293
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IsInGyatsa	No
Other wikis	drl:Virūpa buddhanature:Virūpa bca:Virūpa rtz:Virūpa dnz:Virūpa dudjom:Virūpa khyentselineage:Virūpa lcp:Virūpa