Shavaripa (
Sanskrit
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: Śabara) was an Indian
Buddhist
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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
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and a teacher of
Maitripa. He is one of the forefathers of the
Kagyu 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, NY: SUNY Press, 1985.
* English, Elizabeth, Vajrayoginī: Her Visualizations, Rituals and Forms, Boston: Wisdom, 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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