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'''Eighty-four mahasiddhas''' (Skt. ''caturaśītisiddha''; [[Wyl.]] ''grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi'') — eighty (or eighty four) [[mahasiddha|great siddhas]] of ancient India whose lives have been recounted by [[Abhayadatta]].  
[[image:Vajradhara-84-Mahasiddhas-1.jpg|frame|'''Vajradhara and the 84 Mahasiddhas''']]
'''Eighty-four mahasiddhas''' (Skt. ''caturaśītisiddha''; Tib. གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི་, ''drup top gyé chu tsa zhi'',  [[Wyl.]] ''grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi'') — eighty (or eighty four) [[mahasiddha|great siddhas]] of ancient India whose lives have been recounted by [[Abhayadatta]].  


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| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| Lūipa
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| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| Luipa
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| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| Saraha
| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| Saraha
| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| Saraha
| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| [[Saraha]]
| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| The Great Brahmin
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| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| ཨུ་དྷི་ལི་པ།
| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| ཨུ་དྷི་ལི་པ།
| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| Udhilip
| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| Udhilipa
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| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| Darikapa
| style="border:none;padding:0.1cm;"| Darikapa
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==References==
==References==
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==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/mahasiddha/index.html Mahasiddha Outline page on Himalayan Art]
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/mahasiddha/index.html Mahasiddha Outline page at Himalayan Art]
*[https://www.himalayanart.org/pages/indian_adepts.pdf The 84 Indian Adepts of Abhayadatta System at Himalayan Art]


[[Category:Historical Masters]]
[[Category:Historical Masters]]
[[Category:Indian Masters]]
[[Category:Indian Masters]]
[[Category:Mahasiddhas]]
[[Category:Enumerations]]
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Vajradhara and the 84 Mahasiddhas

Eighty-four mahasiddhas (Skt. caturaśītisiddha; Tib. གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི་, drup top gyé chu tsa zhi, Wyl. grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi) — eighty (or eighty four) great siddhas of ancient India whose lives have been recounted by Abhayadatta.

No. Tibetan Sanskrit Phonetics English[1]
1 ལཱུ་ཨི་པ། Lūipa Luipa The Fish-Gut Eater
2 ལཱི་ལ་པ། Līlapa Lilapa The Royal Hedonist
3 བི་རཱུ་པ། Virūpa Virupa The Ḍākinī-Master
4 ཌོམྦི་པ། Ḍombipa Dombipa The Tiger-Rider
5 ཥ་ཝ་རི་པ། Śavaripa Shavaripa The Hunter
6 ས་ར་ཧ། Saraha Saraha The Great Brahmin
7 ཀངྐཱ་རི་པ། Kaṅkāripa Kangkaripa The Lovelorn Widower
8 མཱི་ན་པ། Mīnapa Minapa The Hindu Jonah
9 ཤྲཱི་གོ་རཀྵ་ནཱཐ྄། Nāth Siddha Gorakṣa Nat Siddha Goraksha The Immortal Cowherd
10 ཙཽ་རངྒི་པ། Cauraṅgipa Chauranggipa The Dismembered Stepson
11 ཝཱི་ཎཱ་པ། Vīṇāpa Vinapa The Musician
12 ཤཱནྟི་པ། Śāntipa Shantipa The Complacent Missionary
13 ཏནྟི་པ། Tantipa Tantipa The Senile Weaver
14 ཙཱ་མཱ་རི་པ། Cāmāripa Chamaripa The Cobbler
15 ཁཌྒ་པ། Khaḍgapa Khadgapa The Fearless Thief
16 ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ། Nāgārjuna Nagarjuna Nagarjuna
17 ནག་པོ་པ། Kāṇhapa Kanhapa The Dark Siddha
18 འཕགས་པ་ལྷ། Āryadeva Aryadeva The One-Eyed
19 ཐ་ག་ན་པ། Thaganapa Taganapa The Compulsive Liar
20 ནཱ་རོ་པ། Nāropa Naropa The Dauntless
21 ཥྱ་ལི་པ། Śyalipa Shyalipa The Jackal-Yogin
22 ཏི་ལོ་པ། Tilopa Tilopa The Great Renunciate
23 ཙ་ཏྲ་པ། Catrapa Chatrapa The Lucky Beggar
24 བྷ་དྲ་པ། Bhadrapa Bhadrapa The Exclusive Brahmin
25 དུ་ཁངྡྷི་པ། Dukhaṅdhi Dukhangdhi The Scavenger
26 ཨ་ཛོ་གི་པ། Ajogi Ajogi The Rejected Wastrel
27 ཀཱ་ལ་པ། Kālapa Kalapa The Handsome Madman
28 དྷོ་བཱི་པ། Dhobīpa Dhobipa The Wise Washerman
29 ཀངྐ་ཎ་པ། Kaṅkaṇa Kangkana The Siddha-King
30 ཀམྦ་ལ་པ། Kambala Kambala The Black-Blanket-Clad Yogin
31 ཌེངྒི་པ། Ḍeṅgipa Denggipa The Courtesan's Brahmin Slave
32 བྷནྡེ་པ། Bhandepa Bhandepa The Envious God
33 ཏངྟེ་པ། Taṅtepa Tangtepa The Gambler
34 ཀུ་ཀྐུ་རི་པ། Kukkuripa Kukkuripa The Dog-Lover
35 ཀུ་ཙི་པ། Kucipa Kuchipa The Goitre-Necked Yogin
36 དྷརྨ་པ། Dharmapa Dharmapa The Eternal Student
37 མ་ཧི་པ། Mahipa Mahipa The Greatest
38 ཨ་ཙིངྟ་། Aciṅta Achingta The Avaricious Hermit
39 བ་བྷ་ཧ། Babhaha Babhaha The Free Lover
40 ན་ལི་ན་པ། Nalinapa Nalinapa The Self-Reliant Prince
41 ཞི་བ་ལྷ། Śāntideva Shantideva The Idle Monk
42 ཨིནྡྲ་བྷཱུ་ཏི། Indrabhūti Indrabhuti The Enlightened Siddha-King
43 མེ་ཀོ་པ། Mekopa Mekopa Guru Dread-Stare
44 ཀོ་ཊཱ་ལི་པ། Koṭālipa Kotalipa The Peasant Guru
45 ཀམྤ་རི་པ། Kamparipa Kamparipa The Blacksmith
46 ཛཱ་ལནྡྷ་ར་པ། Jālandhara Jalandhara The Ḍākinī's Chosen One
47 རཱ་ཧུ་ལ། Rāhula Rahula The Rejuvenated Dotard
48 དྷརྨ་པ། Dharmapa (Gharbari) Dharmapa (Gharbari) The Contrite Paṇḍita
49 དྷོ་ཀ་རི་པ། Dhokaripa Dhokaripa The Bowl-Bearer
50 མེ་དྷི་ནཱི། Medhinī Medhini The Tired Farmer
51 པངྐ་ཛ་པ། Paṅkajapa Pangkajapa The Lotus-Born Brahmin
52 གྷ་ཎྚཱ་པ། Ghaṇṭāpa Ghantapa The Celibate Bell-Ringer
53 ཛོ་གི་པ། Jogipa Jogipa The Siddha-Pilgrim
54 ཙེ་ལུ་ཀ་པ། Celukapa Chelukapa The Revitalized Drone
55 གོ་དྷུ་རི་པ། Godhuripa Godhuripa The Bird-Catcher
56 ལུ་ཙི་ཀ་པ། Lucikapa Luchikapa The Escapist
57 ནིརྒུ་ཎ་པ། Nirguṇapa Nirgunapa The Enlightened Moron
58 ཛ་ཡཱ་ནནྡ། Jayānanda Jayananda Crow Master
59 པ་ཙ་རི་པ། Pacaripa Pacharipa The Pastrycook
60 ཙ་མྤ་ཀ Campaka Champaka The Flower King
61 བྷི་ཀྵ་ན་པ། Bhikṣanapa Bhikshanapa Siddha Two-Teeth
62 དྷི་ལི་པ། Dhilipa Dhilipa The Epicurean Merchant
63 ཀུམྦྷ་རི་པ། Kumbharipa Kumbharipa The Potter
64 ཙ་རྦ་རི་པ། Carbaripa Charbaripa The Petrifier
65 མ་ཎི་བྷ་དྲཱ། Maṇibhadrā Manibhadra The Happy Housewife
66 མེ་ཁ་ལཱ། Mekhalā Mekhala The Elder Severed-Headed Sister
67 ཀ་ན་ཁ་ལཱ། Kanakhalā Kanakhala The Younger Severed-Headed Sister
68 ཀི་ལ་ཀི་ལ་པ། Kilakilapa Kilakilapa The Exiled Loud-Mouth
69 ཀནྟ་ལི་པ། Kantalipa Kantalipa The Ragman-Tailor
70 དྷ་ཧུ་ལི་པ། Dhahulipa Dhahulipa The Blistered Rope-Maker
71 ཨུ་དྷི་ལི་པ། Udhilipa Udhilipa The Bird-Man
72 ཀ་པཱ་ལ་པ། Kapālapa Kapalapa The Skull-Bearer
73 ཀི་ར་པཱ་ལ་པ། Kirapālapa Kirapalapa The Repentant Conqueror
74 ས་ཀ་ར། Sakara Sakara The Lotus-Born
75 སརྦ་བྷཀྵ། Sarvabhakṣa Sarvabhaksha The Glutton
76 ནཱ་ག་བོ་དྷི། Nāgabodhi Nagabodhi The Red-Horned Thief
77 དཱ་རི་ཀ་པ། Dārikapa Darikapa Slave-King of the Temple Whore
78 པུ་ཏ་ལི་པ། Putalipa Putalipa The Mendicant Icon-Bearer
79 ཨུ་པ་ན་ཧ། Upanaha Upanaha The Bootmaker
80 ཀོ་ཀི་ལི་པ། Kokilipa Kokilipa The Complacent Esthete
81 ཨ་ནངྒ་པ། Anaṅgapa Ananggapa The Handsome Fool
82 ལཀྵྨཱིངྐ་རཱ། Lakṣmīṅkarā Lakshmingkara The Crazy Princess
83 ས་མུ་དྲ། Samudra Samudra The Pearl Diver
84 བྱཱ་ལི་པ། Vyālipa Vyalipa The Courtesan's Alchemist

Further Reading

  • Abhayadatta, Buddha's Lions: Lives of the Eighty-four Siddhas, translated by James B. Robinson (Emeryville: Dharma Publishing, 1979).
  • Keith Dowman
    • Buddhist Masters of Enchantment: The Lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas (Rochester: Inner Traditions, 1998)
    • Masters of Mahāmudrā: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-four Buddhist Siddhas (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986)

References

  1. Dowman, Keith: Masters of Mahāmudrā, Songs and Histories of the Eigthy-Four Buddhist Siddhas, 1985

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