Identification With Minapa/Matsyendranath
Many modern scholars have attempted to identify Luipa with Minapa/Minanath/Matsyendranath, the adi-guru and the founder of the Nath Sampradaya. There are several similarities between them. Both of their names Lui and Mina mean fish. Both of them were associated with fisherman caste, Sri Lanka and eastern India and both of them were originators of yogini-tantra lineages (Luipa Samvara and Minapa Yogini-kaula). While Luipa was considered as adi-siddha, Matsyendranath was known as adi-guru. But, if Luipa was born in the eighth century CE, he cannot be identified with Minapa/Minanath/Matsyendranath who belonged to c. 9th - 10th century.
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