Kanha

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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).

Further Reading

  • 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
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