Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Mahasiddha

Index Mahasiddha

Mahasiddha (Sanskrit: mahāsiddha "great adept) is a term for someone who embodies and cultivates the "siddhi of perfection". [1]

72 relations: Archetype, Aryadeva, Bharmour, Bon, Brahmaloka, Buddhist texts, Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, Charnel ground, Charyapada, Divine madness, Dream yoga, Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, Dzogchen, Empowerment (Vajrayana), Genealogy, Gorakhnath, Guru, Hagiography, Himalayas, Iconography, India, Indian religions, Indian subcontinent, Indrabhuti, Kukkuripa, Lamdre, Lawapa, Lineage (Buddhism), Luipa, Lukhang, Magnolia champaca, Mahamudra, Marpa Lotsawa, Matsyendranath, Mekhala and Kanakhala, Milarepa, Nagarjuna, Nalanda, Namtar (biography), Naropa, Nath, Ngagpa, Pandit, Ratnākaraśānti, Robert Thurman, Saṃbhogakāya, Sakya, Samantabhadra, Sannyasa, Sanskrit, ..., Saraha, Sādhanā, Shantideva, Shavaripa, Siddha, Siddhi, Six Yogas of Naropa, Songs of realization, SUNY Press, Tantra, Tantras, Thangka, Tibet, Tibetan art, Tibetan Buddhist canon, Tilopa, Trance, Twilight language, Upanāha, Vajradhara, Vajrayana, Yoga. Expand index (22 more) »

Archetype

The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, modern psychological theory, and literary analysis.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Archetype · See more »

Aryadeva

Āryadeva (fl. 3rd century CE), was a disciple of Nagarjuna and author of several important Mahayana Madhyamaka Buddhist texts.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Aryadeva · See more »

Bharmour

Bharmour, formally known as Brahmpura, was the ancient capital of Chamba district in Himachal Pradesh, India.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Bharmour · See more »

Bon

Bon, also spelled Bön, is a Tibetan religion, which self-identifies as distinct from Tibetan Buddhism, although it shares the same overall teachings and terminology.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Bon · See more »

Brahmaloka

Brahmaloka (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मालोक, IAST: Brahmāloka), is the abode of Lord Brahma, the creator god and part of a Trimurti along with Vishnu and Shiva in Hinduism.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Brahmaloka · See more »

Buddhist texts

Buddhist texts were initially passed on orally by monks, but were later written down and composed as manuscripts in various Indo-Aryan languages which were then translated into other local languages as Buddhism spread.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Buddhist texts · See more »

Chamba, Himachal Pradesh

Chamba (Hindi: चम्बा) is a town in the Chamba district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, in northern India.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Chamba, Himachal Pradesh · See more »

Charnel ground

A charnel ground (Devanagari: श्मशान; Romanized Sanskrit: śmaśān; Tibetan pronunciation: durtrö),Rigpa Shedra (July 2009).

New!!: Mahasiddha and Charnel ground · See more »

Charyapada

The Charyapada (চর্যাপদ Sôrzapôd) (চর্যাপদ Chôrjapôd) is a collection of mystical poems, songs of realization in the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism from the tantric tradition during the Pala Empire in Ancient Bengal, Bihar, Orissa.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Charyapada · See more »

Divine madness

Divine madness, also known as theia mania and crazy wisdom, refers to unconventional, outrageous, unexpected, or unpredictable behavior linked to religious or spiritual pursuits.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Divine madness · See more »

Dream yoga

Dream Yoga or Milam (Standard Tibetan: rmi-lam or nyilam; स्वप्नदर्शन, svapnadarśana)—the Yoga of the Dream State—is a suite of advanced tantric sadhana of the entwined Mantrayana lineages of Dzogchen (Nyingmapa, Ngagpa, Mahasiddha, Kagyu and Bönpo).

New!!: Mahasiddha and Dream yoga · See more »

Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (THL Düjom Jikdrel Yéshé Dorjé) (1904–17 January 1987), was the second Dudjom Rinpoche.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje · See more »

Dzogchen

Dzogchen or "Great Perfection", Sanskrit: अतियोग, is a tradition of teachings in Tibetan Buddhism aimed at discovering and continuing in the natural primordial state of being.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Dzogchen · See more »

Empowerment (Vajrayana)

An empowerment is a ritual in Vajrayana which initiates a student into a particular tantric deity practice.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Empowerment (Vajrayana) · See more »

Genealogy

Genealogy (from γενεαλογία from γενεά, "generation" and λόγος, "knowledge"), also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Genealogy · See more »

Gorakhnath

Gorakhnath (also known as Goraksanath, estimated c. early 11th century) was an influential founder of the Nath Hindu monastic movement in India.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Gorakhnath · See more »

Guru

Guru (गुरु, IAST: guru) is a Sanskrit term that connotes someone who is a "teacher, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Guru · See more »

Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Hagiography · See more »

Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Himalayas · See more »

Iconography

Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Iconography · See more »

India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

New!!: Mahasiddha and India · See more »

Indian religions

Indian religions, sometimes also termed as Dharmic faiths or religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent; namely Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Indian religions · See more »

Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Indian subcontinent · See more »

Indrabhuti

Indrabhuti (alternatively King Ja) is a name attributed to a number of individuals that have become conflated in Vajrayana Buddhism.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Indrabhuti · See more »

Kukkuripa

Kukkuripa(কুক্কুরিপা) was a mahasiddha who lived in India.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Kukkuripa · See more »

Lamdre

Lamdré is a meditative system in Tibetan Buddhism rooted in the view that the result of its practice is contained within the path.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Lamdre · See more »

Lawapa

Lawapa or Lavapa was a figure in Tibetan Buddhism who flourished in the 10th century.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Lawapa · See more »

Lineage (Buddhism)

A lineage in Buddhism is a line of transmission of the Buddhist teaching that is "theoretically traced back to the Buddha himself." The acknowledgement of the transmission can be oral, or certified in documents.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Lineage (Buddhism) · See more »

Luipa

Luipa or Luipada (লুইপা, লুইপা,, c. 10th century) was a mahasiddha or siddhacharya from East India.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Luipa · See more »

Lukhang

Lukhang (Tib. klu khang, residence of Nagas), formally Zongdag Lukhang (Tib. rdzong bdag klu khang, residence of Nagas, lords of the castle and administered territory) is the name of a secret temple of Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Lukhang · See more »

Magnolia champaca

Magnolia champaca, known in English as champak, is a large evergreen tree in the Magnoliaceae family.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Magnolia champaca · See more »

Mahamudra

Mahāmudrā (Sanskrit, Tibetan: Chagchen, Wylie: phyag chen, contraction of Chagya Chenpo, Wylie: phyag rgya chen po) literally means "great seal" or "great imprint" and refers to the fact that "all phenomena inevitably are stamped by the fact of wisdom and emptiness inseparable".

New!!: Mahasiddha and Mahamudra · See more »

Marpa Lotsawa

Marpa Lotsawa (1012–1097), sometimes known fully as Lhodak Marpa Choski Lodos or commonly as Marpa the Translator, was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher credited with the transmission of many Vajrayana teachings from India, including the teachings and lineages of Mahamudra.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Marpa Lotsawa · See more »

Matsyendranath

Matsyendranātha, Macchindranāth or Mīnanātha (c. early 10th century) was a saint and yogi in a number of Buddhist and Hindu traditions.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Matsyendranath · See more »

Mekhala and Kanakhala

Mekhala (or Mahakhala – "Elder Mischievous Girl") "The Elder Severed-Headed Sister" and Kanakhala (Kankhala, – "Younger Mischievous Girl") "The Younger Severed-Headed Sister") are two sisters who figure in the eighty-four mahasiddhas ("great adept") of Vajrayana Buddhism. Both are described as the disciples of another mahasiddha, Kanhapa (Krishnacharya). They are said to have severed their heads and offered them to their guru, and then danced headless. Their legend is closely associated with the Buddhist severed-headed goddess Chinnamunda.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Mekhala and Kanakhala · See more »

Milarepa

UJetsun Milarepa (c. 1052 – c. 1135 CE) is generally considered one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Milarepa · See more »

Nagarjuna

Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – c. 250 CE) is widely considered one of the most important Mahayana philosophers.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Nagarjuna · See more »

Nalanda

Nalanda was a Mahavihara, a large Buddhist monastery, in the ancient kingdom of Magadha (modern-day Bihar) in India.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Nalanda · See more »

Namtar (biography)

A namtar, sometimes spelled namthar is a spiritual biography or hagiography in Tibetan Buddhism.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Namtar (biography) · See more »

Naropa

Nāropā (Prakrit; Nāropadā or Naḍapāda) (probably died ca. 1040 CE) was an Indian Buddhist Mahasiddha.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Naropa · See more »

Nath

Nath, also called as Natha, are a Shaivism sub-tradition within Hinduism.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Nath · See more »

Ngagpa

In Tibetan Buddhism and Bon, a Ngagpa (Sanskrit mantrī) is a non-monastic practitioner of Dzogchen who has received a skra dbang, a hair empowerment, for example in the Dudjom Tersar lineage.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Ngagpa · See more »

Pandit

A pandit (paṇḍita; also spelled pundit, pronounced; abbreviated as Pt. or Pdt.; Panditain or Punditain can refer to a female pundit or the wife of a pundit) is a Brahmin scholar or a teacher of any field of knowledge in Hinduism, particularly the Vedic scriptures, dharma, Hindu philosophy, or secular subjects such as music.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Pandit · See more »

Ratnākaraśānti

Ratnākaraśānti (also known as Śāntipa) (c. 1000 CE) was one of the eighty-four Buddhist Mahāsiddhas and the chief debate-master at the monastic university of Vikramashila.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Ratnākaraśānti · See more »

Robert Thurman

Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 3, 1941) is an American Buddhist author and academic who has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Robert Thurman · See more »

Saṃbhogakāya

The Saṃbhogakāya (Sanskrit: "body of enjoyment", Tib: longs spyod rdzog pa'i sku) is the second mode or aspect of the Trikaya.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Saṃbhogakāya · See more »

Sakya

The Sakya ("pale earth") school is one of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, the others being the Nyingma, Kagyu, and Gelug.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Sakya · See more »

Samantabhadra

Samantabhadra (Sanskrit, "Universal Worthy") is a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism associated with practice and meditation.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Samantabhadra · See more »

Sannyasa

Sannyasa is the life stage of renunciation within the Hindu philosophy of four age-based life stages known as ashramas, with the first three being Brahmacharya (bachelor student), Grihastha (householder) and Vanaprastha (forest dweller, retired).

New!!: Mahasiddha and Sannyasa · See more »

Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Sanskrit · See more »

Saraha

Saraha (सरह), Sarahapa (सरहपा), Sarahapāda (सरहपाद), or in the Tibetan language The Arrow Shooter, (circa 8th century CE) was known as the first sahajiya and one of the Mahasiddhas.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Saraha · See more »

Sādhanā

Sādhana (Sanskrit साधन), literally "a means of accomplishing something", is a generic term coming from the yogic tradition and it refers to any spiritual exercise that is aimed at progressing the sādhaka towards the very ultimate expression of his or her life in this reality.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Sādhanā · See more »

Shantideva

Shantideva (Sanskrit: Śāntideva;;; Шантидэва гэгээн; Tịch Thiên) was a 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar at Nalanda.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Shantideva · See more »

Shavaripa

Śabara in Sanskrit or Shavaripa in Tibetan is Indian Buddhist teacher, one of the eighty-four Mahasiddhas, honored as being among the holders of the distant transmission of Mahamudra.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Shavaripa · See more »

Siddha

Siddha (Tamil "great thinker/wise man"; Sanskrit, "perfected one") is a term that is used widely in Indian religions and culture.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Siddha · See more »

Siddhi

(Sanskrit and Pali: सिद्धि; Kannada: ಸಿದ್ಧಿ; Telugu: సిద్ధి; Sinhala: සිද්දි; Tamil: சித்தி;, (accessed: Thursday April 15, 2010)) are spiritual, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of spiritual advancement through sādhanās such as meditation and yoga.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Siddhi · See more »

Six Yogas of Naropa

The Six Yogas of Nāropa, also called the six dharmas of Naropa, are a set of advanced Tibetan Buddhist tantric practices and a meditation sādhanā compiled in and around the time of the Indian monk and mystic Nāropa (1016-1100 CE) and conveyed to his student Marpa Lotsawa.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Six Yogas of Naropa · See more »

Songs of realization

Songs of realization, or Songs of Experience (Devanāgarī: दोहा; Romanized Sanskrit: Dohā; Oriya: ପଦ) are sung poetry forms characteristic of the tantric movement in both Hinduism and in Vajrayana Buddhism.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Songs of realization · See more »

SUNY Press

The State University of New York Press (or SUNY Press), is a university press and a Center for Scholarly Communication.

New!!: Mahasiddha and SUNY Press · See more »

Tantra

Tantra (Sanskrit: तन्त्र, literally "loom, weave, system") denotes the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that co-developed most likely about the middle of 1st millennium CE.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Tantra · See more »

Tantras

Tantras ("Looms" or "Weavings") refers to numerous and varied scriptures pertaining to any of several esoteric traditions rooted in Hindu and Buddhist philosophy.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Tantras · See more »

Thangka

A thangka, variously spelt as thangka, tangka, thanka, or tanka (Nepal Bhasa: पौभा), is a Tibetan Buddhist painting on cotton, silk appliqué, usually depicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Thangka · See more »

Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Tibet · See more »

Tibetan art

For more than a thousand years, Tibetan artists have played a key role in the cultural life of Tibet.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Tibetan art · See more »

Tibetan Buddhist canon

The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a loosely defined list of sacred texts recognized by various sects of Tibetan Buddhism.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Tibetan Buddhist canon · See more »

Tilopa

Tilopa (Prakrit; Sanskrit: Talika or Tilopada) (988–1069) was born in either Chativavo (Chittagong), Bengal or Jagora, Bengal in India.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Tilopa · See more »

Trance

Trance denotes any state of awareness or consciousness other than normal waking consciousness.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Trance · See more »

Twilight language

Twilight language is a rendering of the Sanskrit term (written also,,;, THL gongpé ké) or of their modern Indic equivalents (especially in Bengali, Odia, Assamese, Maithili, Hindi, Nepali, Braj Bhasha and Khariboli).

New!!: Mahasiddha and Twilight language · See more »

Upanāha

Upanāha (Sanskrit; Tibetan phonetic: khön du dzinpa) is a Buddhist term translated as "resentment" or "enmity".

New!!: Mahasiddha and Upanāha · See more »

Vajradhara

Vajradhara (Sanskrit: वज्रधर. Also, the name of Indra, because 'Vajra' means diamond, as well as the thunderbolt, anything hard more generally) Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང། rdo rje 'chang (Dorje Chang); Chinese: 金剛總持; Javanese: Kabajradharan; Japanese: 執金剛; English: Diamond-holder; Vietnamese: Kim Cang Tổng Trì) is the ultimate primordial Buddha, or Adi Buddha, according to the Gelug and Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In the evolution of Indian Buddhism, Buddha Vajradhara gradually displaced Samantabhadra, who is the 'Primordial Buddha' in the Nyingma, or 'Ancient School.' However, the two are metaphysically equivalent. Achieving the 'state of Vajradhara' is synonymous with complete realisation. According to the Kagyu lineage, Buddha Vajradhara is the primordial Buddha, the Dharmakaya Buddha. He is depicted as dark blue in color, expressing the quintessence of buddhahood itself and representing the essence of the historical Buddha's realization of enlightenment. As such, Buddha Vajradhara is thought to be the supreme essence of all (male) Buddhas (his name means "Ruler of the Vajra Beings"); It is the Tantric form of Sakyamuni which is called Vajradhara. Tantras are texts specific to Tantrism and are believed to have been originally taught by the Tantric form of Sakyamuni called Buddha Vajradhara. He is an expression of Buddhahood itself in both single and yabyum form. Buddha Vajradhara is considered to be the prime Buddha of the Father tantras (tib.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Vajradhara · See more »

Vajrayana

Vajrayāna, Mantrayāna, Tantrayāna, Tantric Buddhism and Esoteric Buddhism are the various Buddhist traditions of Tantra and "Secret Mantra", which developed in medieval India and spread to Tibet and East Asia.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Vajrayana · See more »

Yoga

Yoga (Sanskrit, योगः) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India.

New!!: Mahasiddha and Yoga · See more »

Redirects here:

Caturāsiti-siddha-Pravṛtti, Mahasidda, Mahasiddhas, Mahāsiddha.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahasiddha

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »