[Buddha-l] 84 Mahasiddhas

[Steven Rhodes]

Perhaps this is the LTWA book which the first inquirer was seeking (?):
Tāranātha’s Bkaʾ babs bdun ldan : the seven instruction lineages / by 
Jo-nang Tāranātha ; translated and edited by David Templeman.
Published/Created: 	Dharamsala : Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 
c1983.


Best wishes,

Steven Rhodes


bclough wrote:

> Folks, there are not one but two excellent translations of the lives 
> of the 84 mahasiddhas still easily available:
>  
> 1) Dowman, Keith. Masters of Mahamudra: Songs and Histories of 
> Eighty-Four Buddhist Siddhas (Albany: SUNY Press, 1984).
>  
> 2) Robinson, James B. Buddha's Lions: Abhayadatta's Lives of the 
> Eighty-Four Siddhas (Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1997).
>  
> Brad Clough
>  
>  
> > Blumenthal, James schreef:
> >
> > > I don't have the bibliographic info handy, but there was a book
> > > published by the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives that was a
> > > translation of the short biographies of the 84 mahasiddhis. That
> > > might an interesting place to start. If memory serves me, I think it
> > > is simply called, "The Eighty-Four Mahasiddhis".
> > > Jim Blumenthal
> > >
> > >
> > Well, James if you find anything, please let us know. I just searched
> > the database and I only found the lifestory of Tilopa. I know the
> > original book you mention, it has been translated into Hindi and it has
> > been around for many years combined with the Tibetan text. There is a
> > translation of the songs of the mahaasiddhas by Per Kvearne called 'An
> > anthology of Buddhist Tantric Songs'.
> > What still puzzles me is the relation between the tantras as ritual
> > systems with strong brahmanic influences and the mahaasiddhas, which
> > were mainly errant yogis who were not so much into rituals and mainly
> > practised asanas and breathing techniques. Some of them didn't even 
> care
> > whether they were to be called hindu or buddhist. The Tibetans merged
> > all the different tantras into a more or less unified ritual system. 
> The
> > songs of the mahaasiddhas and those of their present successors, the
> > Bauls, show a strong indifference to rituals and theory. Rituals and
> > formal initiations are more a hobby of monks. But somehow the Tibetan
> > tradition has developed the ideal of combining the career of a monk and
> > a mahaasiddha.
> >
> > Erik
> >
> >
> > www.xs4all.nl/~jehms
> > weblog http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/pub/blogs/blog.php?uid=2950
> >
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