( Skt.): (988-1069). One of the great mahasiddas of India and the supreme teacher of Naropa. Tilopa was self-realized in that he received the highest teaching of the nature of mind, not through a human teacher, but through the inspiration of his meditation. Tilopa is the originator of the Kagyu lineage.

Tilopa (Tibetan; Sanskrit: Talika, 988 - 1069) was born in either Chativavo (Chittagong), Bengal or Jagora, Bengal.http://www.kagyuoffice.org/kagyulineage.tilopa.html Kagyu Office: Tilopa He was a tantric practitioner and mahasiddha. He developed the Mahamudra method, a set of spiritual practices that greatly accelerated the process of attaining bodhi (enlightenment).