Tiphupa (Paravatapada)

Tiphupa or Paravatapada (the Indian name for Tiphupa) was the boy who received Darma Dode’s (Marpa’s son) consciousness.

Tiphupa intensively practiced the methods taught by Marpa and others, and methods he received in India from Naropa’s students, with the result that he reached realization as a mahasiddha.

He became a famous teacher himself and gave numerous teachings to Milarepa’s student Rechungpa. Probably the most important of them for the future of the Kagyü lineage was the “Nine-Fold Cycle of the Formless Dakinis”.