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'''Kanha''' or '''Kanhapa''' (Skt. ''Kāṇha'') aka '''Krishnacharya''' (Skt. ''Kṛṣṇācārya''; 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'').
'''Kanha''' or '''Kanhapa''' (Skt. ''Kāṇha''; Tib. ནག་པོ་པ་, ''nakpopa'', [[Wyl.]] ''nag po pa'') was one of the two main students of the [[mahasiddha]] [[Virupa]] from whom he received the [[Lamdre]] teachings.


==Further Reading==
Virūpa's disciple was also called Kāṇha of Deliberate Behaviour (Tib. བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་ནག་པོ་པ་, ''trulshyug nagpopa''), he was also known as the Eastern Kāṇha, (Tib. ནག་པོ་པ་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་པ་, ''nagpopa sharchokpa'').
*[[Abhayadatta]], ''Buddha's Lions: Lives of the Eighty-four Siddhas'', Emeryville, Dharma Publishing, 1979
 
*Roger R. Jackson, ''Tantric Treasures: Three Collections of Mystical Verse from Buddhist India'', Oxford University Press, 2004
There is a second Nagpopa, Kṛṣṇasamayavajra, (Tib. ནག་པོ་པ་དམ་ཚིག་རྡོ་རྗེ་, ''nagpopa damtsik dorje''), whose real name is Śribhadra, and who is the source of one of the four [[Hevajra]] transmissions of the [[Sakya]] tradition.<ref>'''Cyrus Stearns:''' ''Taking the result as the path: core teachings of the Sakya lamdré tradition'', p.640 n.135</ref>
 
==References==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/news/post.cfm/kanha-name-confusions Kanha name confusions]


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Kanha or Kanhapa (Skt. Kāṇha; Tib. ནག་པོ་པ་, nakpopa, Wyl. nag po pa) was one of the two main students of the mahasiddha Virupa from whom he received the Lamdre teachings.

Virūpa's disciple was also called Kāṇha of Deliberate Behaviour (Tib. བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་ནག་པོ་པ་, trulshyug nagpopa), he was also known as the Eastern Kāṇha, (Tib. ནག་པོ་པ་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་པ་, nagpopa sharchokpa).

There is a second Nagpopa, Kṛṣṇasamayavajra, (Tib. ནག་པོ་པ་དམ་ཚིག་རྡོ་རྗེ་, nagpopa damtsik dorje), whose real name is Śribhadra, and who is the source of one of the four Hevajra transmissions of the Sakya tradition.[1]

References

  1. Cyrus Stearns: Taking the result as the path: core teachings of the Sakya lamdré tradition, p.640 n.135

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