Shavaripa
Shavaripa (Sanskrit: Śabara) was an Indian Buddhist teacher, one of the eighty-four Mahasiddhas, honored as being among the holders of the distant transmission of Mahamudra. He was a student of Nagarjuna and a teacher of Maitripa. He is one of the forefathers of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
Shavaripa
- Born
- 800
- Died
- 900
- Occupation
- poet
- Teachers
- Nagarjuna · Lui pa
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Shavaripa (Sanskrit: Śabara) was an Indian Buddhist teacher, one of the eighty-four Mahasiddhas, honored as being among the holders of the distant transmission of Mahamudra. He was a student of Nagarjuna and a teacher of Maitripa. He is one of the forefathers of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Loosely related to the goddess Parnashavari and Janguli by relationship of the Shavari tribe of north-east India.
• Dowman, Keith (trans.), Masters of Mahāmudrā: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-Four Buddhist Siddhas. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 1985. • English, Elizabeth, Vajrayoginī: Her Visualizations, Rituals and Forms. Boston, Massachusetts: Wisdom Publications, 2002. * * • Linrothe, Rob, Holy Madness: Portraits of Tantric Siddhas. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2006. • Templeman, David (trans.), The Seven Instruction Lineages by Jo-nang-Tārānātha. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1983. • Золотая Гирлянда - ранние учителя Кагью в Индии и Тибете, Лама Джампа Тхайе, Альмазный путь, 48.
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