primordial wisdom and universal voidness. Advised by the dakini, Tilopa gradually took up a monk's life, taking the monastic vows and becoming an erudite scholar...

or Abhayakirti was an Indian Buddhist Mahasiddha. He was the disciple of Tilopa and brother, or some sources say partner and pupil, of Niguma. As an Indian...

teaching monasteries with thousands of monks, such as the big Gelug establishments of Sera (with over 6000 monks in the first half of the 20th century)...

born in Tripura in east India and studied at the Somapura Mahavihara as a monk, practicing tantra, particularly the Cakrasamvara. Alternatively, Indian...

recognized by the 14th Dalai Lama as the current reincarnation of mahasiddha Tilopa. Between 1992 and 2023, Telo Tulku served as the spiritual head (Shadjin...

rulers of the Pala Empire (r. 750–1161 CE). After the fall of the Palas, the monks of Nalanda were patronised by the Pithipatis of Bodh Gaya. Nalanda was likely...

as the twelfth incarnation of the Gharwang Tulkus and as an emanation of Tilopa. He is the supreme lineage holder of the Zurmang Ear Whispered Lineage (zur...

1032) Minamoto no Yoriyoshi, Japanese nobleman (d. 1075) Nōin, Japanese monk and waka poet (d. 1051) Pang Ji, chancellor of the Song Dynasty (d. 1063)...

practitioners, in some cases physical. In one important Anuttarayoga text, where Tilopa expounds the meaning to Naropa, it is said: When you rely on a consort,...

Other influential Indian mahasiddhas include Tilopa, his student Naropa and Naropa's consort Niguma. Tilopa's Ganges Mahāmudrā song is a widely taught short...