Shavaripa

Shavaripa (Skt. Śavaripa; T. sha ba ri pa ཤ་བ་རི་པ་) was one of the eighty-four mahasiddhas, who figures prominently in the early lineage of the Mahamudra transmission.

He was a student of Nagarjuna and a teacher of Maitripa. He is one of the forefathers of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

Further reading

Online:

• Śavaripa, Tsadra Commons
• Shavaripa, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
• Shavaripa, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
• Shavaripa, Wikipedia

Books:

• Dowman, Keith (trans.), Masters of Mahāmudrā: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-Four Buddhist Siddhas. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1985.
• English, Elizabeth, Vajrayoginī: Her Visualizations, Rituals and Forms. Boston, Massachusetts: Wisdom Publications, 2002.
• Jampa Thaye (1990). Garland of Gold. UK: Ganesha. p. 128. ISBN 0950911933. 
• Kalu Rinpoche (1986). The Dharma that Illuminates All Beings Like the Light of the Sun and the Moon. USA: State University of New York, Albany. ISBN 0-88706-156-7. 
• Linrothe, Rob, Holy Madness: Portraits of Tantric Siddhas. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2006.
• Templeman, David (trans.), The Seven Instruction Lineages by Jo-nang-Tārānātha. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1983.