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'''Krishnacharya''' (Skt. ''Kṛṣṇācārya''; Tib. [[ནག་པོ་སྤྱོད་པ་]], Wyl. ''nag po spyod pa'') was one of the [[eighty-four mahasiddhas]]. He is an important master in the lineage of transmission of [[Chakrasamvara]] and is the author of a commentary on the ''[[Hevajra Tantra]]'' as well as a collection of songs (''doha'').
'''Krishnacharya''' (Skt. ''Kṛṣṇācārya''; Tib. [[ནག་པོ་སྤྱོད་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''nag po spyod pa'') was one of the [[eighty-four mahasiddhas]]. He is an important master in the lineage of transmission of [[Chakrasamvara]] and is the author of a commentary on the ''[[Hevajra Tantra]]'' as well as a collection of songs (''doha'').


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==
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[[Category:Indian Masters]]
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[[Category:Mahāsiddhas]]
[[Category:Mahasiddhas]]

Revision as of 12:38, 2 September 2017

Krishnacharya (Skt. Kṛṣṇācārya; Tib. ནག་པོ་སྤྱོད་པ་, Wyl. nag po spyod pa) was one of the eighty-four mahasiddhas. He is an important master in the lineage of transmission of Chakrasamvara and is the author of a commentary on the Hevajra Tantra as well as a collection of songs (doha).

Further Reading

  • Abhayadatta, Buddha's Lions: Lives of the Eighty-four Siddhas, Emeryville, Dharma Publishing, 1979
  • David Templeman, Taranatha's Life of Krsnacarya/Kanha, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1989
  • Roger R. Jackson, Tantric Treasures: Three Collections of Mystical Verse from Buddhist India, Oxford University Press, 2004

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