Shavaripa (
Sanskrit
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: Śabara) was an Indian
Buddhist
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teacher, one of the eighty-four
Mahasiddha
Mahasiddha (Sanskrit: ''mahāsiddha'' "great adept; ) is a term for someone who embodies and cultivates the "siddhi of perfection". A siddha is an individual who, through the practice of sādhanā, attains the realization of siddhis, psychic and ...
s, honored as being among the holders of the distant transmission of
Mahamudra
Mahāmudrā (Sanskrit: महामुद्रा, , contraction of ) 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". Mahāmud ...
. He was a student of
Nagarjuna
Nāgārjuna (Sanskrit: नागार्जुन, ''Nāgārjuna''; ) was an Indian monk and Mahayana, Mahāyāna Buddhist Philosophy, philosopher of the Madhyamaka (Centrism, Middle Way) school. He is widely considered one of the most importa ...
and a teacher of
Maitripa. He is one of the forefathers of the
Kagyu
The ''Kagyu'' school, also transliterated as ''Kagyü'', or ''Kagyud'' (), which translates to "Oral Lineage" or "Whispered Transmission" school, is one of the main schools (''chos lugs'') of Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan (or Himalayan) Buddhism. ...
lineage of
Tibetan Buddhism
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. Shavaripa is loosely related to the goddess
Parnashavari and Janguli by relationship of the Shavari tribe of north-east India.
References
External links
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Books
* 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.
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* 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.
Mahasiddhas
Indian scholars of Buddhism
Buddhist yogis
Indian Buddhists
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