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Eighty-four mahasiddhas (Skt. caturaśītisiddha; Tib. གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི་, Wyl. grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi) — eighty (or eighty four) great siddhas of ancient India whose lives have been recounted by Abhayadatta.
No. | Tibetan | Sanskrit | Phonetics | English<ref>Dowman, Keith: Masters of Mahāmudrā, Songs and Histories of the Eigthy-Four Buddhist Siddhas, 1985</ref> |
1 | ལཱུ་ཨི་པ། | Lūipa | Luipa | The Fish-Gut Eater |
2 | ལཱི་ལ་པ། | Līlapa | Lilapa | The Royal Hedonist |
3 | བི་རཱུ་པ། | Virūpa | Virupa | The Ḍākinī-Master |
4 | ཌོམྦི་པ། | Ḍombipa | Dombipa | The Tiger-Rider |
5 | ཥ་ཝ་རི་པ། | Śavaripa | Shavaripa | The Hunter |
6 | ས་ར་ཧ། | Saraha | Saraha | The Great Brahmin |
7 | ཀངྐཱ་རི་པ། | Kaṅkāripa | Kangkaripa | The Lovelorn Widower |
8 | མཱི་ན་པ། | Mīnapa | Minapa | The Hindu Jonah |
9 | ཤྲཱི་གོ་རཀྵ་ནཱཐ྄། | Nāth Siddha Gorakṣa | Nat Siddha Goraksha | The Immortal Cowherd |
10 | ཙཽ་རངྒི་པ། | Cauraṅgipa | Chauranggipa | The Dismembered Stepson |
11 | ཝཱི་ཎཱ་པ། | Vīṇāpa | Vinapa | The Musician |
12 | ཤཱནྟི་པ། | Śāntipa | Shantipa | The Complacent Missionary |
13 | ཏནྟི་པ། | Tantipa | Tantipa | The Senile Weaver |
14 | ཙཱ་མཱ་རི་པ། | Cāmāripa | Chamaripa | The Cobbler |
15 | ཁཌྒ་པ། | Khaḍgapa | Khadgapa | The Fearless Thief |
16 | ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ། | Nāgārjuna | Nagarjuna | Nagarjuna |
17 | ནག་པོ་པ། | Kāṇhapa | Kanhapa | The Dark Siddha |
18 | འཕགས་པ་ལྷ། | Āryadeva | Aryadeva | The One-Eyed |
19 | ཐ་ག་ན་པ། | Thaganapa | Taganapa | The Compulsive Liar |
20 | ནཱ་རོ་པ། | Nāropa | Naropa | The Dauntless |
21 | ཥྱ་ལི་པ། | Śyalipa | Shyalipa | The Jackal-Yogin |
22 | ཏི་ལོ་པ། | Tilopa | Tilopa | The Great Renunciate |
23 | ཙ་ཏྲ་པ། | Catrapa | Chatrapa | The Lucky Beggar |
24 | བྷ་དྲ་པ། | Bhadrapa | Bhadrapa | The Exclusive Brahmin |
25 | དུ་ཁངྡྷི་པ། | Dukhaṅdhi | Dukhangdhi | The Scavenger |
26 | ཨ་ཛོ་གི་པ། | Ajogi | Ajogi | The Rejected Wastrel |
27 | ཀཱ་ལ་པ། | Kālapa | Kalapa | The Handsome Madman |
28 | དྷོ་བཱི་པ། | Dhobīpa | Dhobipa | The Wise Washerman |
29 | ཀངྐ་ཎ་པ། | Kaṅkaṇa | Kangkana | The Siddha-King |
30 | ཀམྦ་ལ་པ། | Kambala | Kambala | The Black-Blanket-Clad Yogin |
31 | ཌེངྒི་པ། | Ḍeṅgipa | Denggipa | The Courtesan's Brahmin Slave |
32 | བྷནྡེ་པ། | Bhandepa | Bhandepa | The Envious God |
33 | ཏངྟེ་པ། | Taṅtepa | Tangtepa | The Gambler |
34 | ཀུ་ཀྐུ་རི་པ། | Kukkuripa | Kukkuripa | The Dog-Lover |
35 | ཀུ་ཙི་པ། | Kucipa | Kuchipa | The Goitre-Necked Yogin |
36 | དྷརྨ་པ། | Dharmapa | Dharmapa | The Eternal Student |
37 | མ་ཧི་པ། | Mahipa | Mahipa | The Greatest |
38 | ཨ་ཙིངྟ་། | Aciṅta | Achingta | The Avaricious Hermit |
39 | བ་བྷ་ཧ། | Babhaha | Babhaha | The Free Lover |
40 | ན་ལི་ན་པ། | Nalinapa | Nalinapa | The Self-Reliant Prince |
41 | ཞི་བ་ལྷ། | Śāntideva | Shantideva | The Idle Monk |
42 | ཨིནྡྲ་བྷཱུ་ཏི། | Indrabhūti | Indrabhuti | The Enlightened Siddha-King |
43 | མེ་ཀོ་པ། | Mekopa | Mekopa | Guru Dread-Stare |
44 | ཀོ་ཊཱ་ལི་པ། | Koṭālipa | Kotalipa | The Peasant Guru |
45 | ཀམྤ་རི་པ། | Kamparipa | Kamparipa | The Blacksmith |
46 | ཛཱ་ལནྡྷ་ར་པ། | Jālandhara | Jalandhara | The Ḍākinī's Chosen One |
47 | རཱ་ཧུ་ལ། | Rāhula | Rahula | The Rejuvenated Dotard |
48 | དྷརྨ་པ། | Dharmapa (Gharbari) | Dharmapa (Gharbari) | The Contrite Paṇḍita |
49 | དྷོ་ཀ་རི་པ། | Dhokaripa | Dhokaripa | The Bowl-Bearer |
50 | མེ་དྷི་ནཱི། | Medhinī | Medhini | The Tired Farmer |
51 | པངྐ་ཛ་པ། | Paṅkajapa | Pangkajapa | The Lotus-Born Brahmin |
52 | གྷ་ཎྚཱ་པ། | Ghaṇṭāpa | Ghantapa | The Celibate Bell-Ringer |
53 | ཛོ་གི་པ། | Jogipa | Jogipa | The Siddha-Pilgrim |
54 | ཙེ་ལུ་ཀ་པ། | Celukapa | Chelukapa | The Revitalized Drone |
55 | གོ་དྷུ་རི་པ། | Godhuripa | Godhuripa | The Bird-Catcher |
56 | ལུ་ཙི་ཀ་པ། | Lucikapa | Luchikapa | The Escapist |
57 | ནིརྒུ་ཎ་པ། | Nirguṇapa | Nirgunapa | The Enlightened Moron |
58 | ཛ་ཡཱ་ནནྡ། | Jayānanda | Jayananda | Crow Master |
59 | པ་ཙ་རི་པ། | Pacaripa | Pacharipa | The Pastrycook |
60 | ཙ་མྤ་ཀ | Campaka | Champaka | The Flower King |
61 | བྷི་ཀྵ་ན་པ། | Bhikṣanapa | Bhikshanapa | Siddha Two-Teeth |
62 | དྷི་ལི་པ། | Dhilipa | Dhilipa | The Epicurean Merchant |
63 | ཀུམྦྷ་རི་པ། | Kumbharipa | Kumbharipa | The Potter |
64 | ཙ་རྦ་རི་པ། | Carbaripa | Charbaripa | The Petrifier |
65 | མ་ཎི་བྷ་དྲཱ། | Maṇibhadrā | Manibhadra | The Happy Housewife |
66 | མེ་ཁ་ལཱ། | Mekhalā | Mekhala | The Elder Severed-Headed Sister |
67 | ཀ་ན་ཁ་ལཱ། | Kanakhalā | Kanakhala | The Younger Severed-Headed Sister |
68 | ཀི་ལ་ཀི་ལ་པ། | Kilakilapa | Kilakilapa | The Exiled Loud-Mouth |
69 | ཀནྟ་ལི་པ། | Kantalipa | Kantalipa | The Ragman-Tailor |
70 | དྷ་ཧུ་ལི་པ། | Dhahulipa | Dhahulipa | The Blistered Rope-Maker |
71 | ཨུ་དྷི་ལི་པ། | Udhilipa | Udhilipa | The Bird-Man |
72 | ཀ་པཱ་ལ་པ། | Kapālapa | Kapalapa | The Skull-Bearer |
73 | ཀི་ར་པཱ་ལ་པ། | Kirapālapa | Kirapalapa | The Repentant Conqueror |
74 | ས་ཀ་ར། | Sakara | Sakara | The Lotus-Born |
75 | སརྦ་བྷཀྵ། | Sarvabhakṣa | Sarvabhaksha | The Glutton |
76 | ནཱ་ག་བོ་དྷི། | Nāgabodhi | Nagabodhi | The Red-Horned Thief |
77 | དཱ་རི་ཀ་པ། | Dārikapa | Darikapa | Slave-King of the Temple Whore |
78 | པུ་ཏ་ལི་པ། | Putalipa | Putalipa | The Mendicant Icon-Bearer |
79 | ཨུ་པ་ན་ཧ། | Upanaha | Upanaha | The Bootmaker |
80 | ཀོ་ཀི་ལི་པ། | Kokilipa | Kokilipa | The Complacent Esthete |
81 | ཨ་ནངྒ་པ། | Anaṅgapa | Ananggapa | The Handsome Fool |
82 | ལཀྵྨཱིངྐ་རཱ། | Lakṣmīṅkarā | Lakshmingkara | The Crazy Princess |
83 | ས་མུ་དྲ། | Samudra | Samudra | The Pearl Diver |
84 | བྱཱ་ལི་པ། | Vyālipa | Vyalipa | The Courtesan's Alchemist |
- Achinta or Achintapa, the 'Avaricious Hermit';
- Ajogi or Ayogipa, the 'Rejected Wastrel';
- Anangapa, Ananga or Anangavajra, the 'Handsome Fool';
- Aryadeva, the 'Lotus-Born' or the 'One-Eyed';
- Babhaha, the 'Free Lover';
- Bhandepa, the 'Envious God';
- Bhiksanapa, 'Siddha Two-Teeth';
- Bhusuku or Bhusukupada, the 'Lazy Monk' or the 'Idle Monk';
- Chamaripa, the 'Divine Cobbler';
- Champaka or Champakapada, the 'Flower King';
- Charbaripa or Carpati, 'Who Turned People to Stone' or 'the Petrifyer';
- Chatrapa, the 'Lucky Beggar';
- Chaurangipa, the 'Limbless One' or 'the Dismembered Stepson';
- Chelukapa, the 'Revitalized Drone';
- Darikapa, the 'Slave-King of the Temple Whore';
- Dengipa, the 'Courtesan's Brahmin Slave';
- Dhahulipa, the 'Blistered Rope-Maker';
- Dharmapa, the 'Eternal Student' (c.900 CE);
- Dhilipa, the 'Epicurean Merchant';
- Dhobipa, the 'Wise Washerman';
- Dhokaripa, the 'Bowl-Bearer';
- Dombi Heruka, the 'Tiger Rider';
- Dukhandi, the 'Scavenger';
- Ghantapa, the 'Celibate Monk' or the 'Celibate Bell-Ringer';
- Godhuripa or Gorura, the 'Bird Catcher';
- Goraksa, Gorakhnath or Goraksha, the 'Immortal Cowherd';
- Indrabhuti, (his teachings disseminated to Tilopa);
- Jalandhara, the 'Dakini's Chosen One';
- Jayananda, the 'Crow Master';
- Jogipa, the 'Siddha Pilgrim';
- Kalapa, the 'Handsome Madman';
- Kamparipa, the 'Blacksmith';
- Kambala, the 'Yogin of the Black Blanket' (or the 'Black-Blanket-Clad Yogin');
- Kanakhala, the younger of the two Headless Sisters or Severed-Headed Sisters;
- Kanha or Kanhapa, the 'Dark-Skinned One' (or the 'Dark Siddha');
- Kankana, the 'Siddha-King';
- Kankaripa, the 'Lovelorn Widower';
- Kantalipa, the 'Rag Picker' (or the 'Ragman-Tailor');
- Kapalapa, the 'Skull Bearer';
- Khadgapa, the 'Master Thief' (or the 'Fearless Thief');
- Kilakilapa, the 'Exiled Loud-Mouth';
- Kirapalapa, the 'Repentant Conqueror';
- Kokilipa, the 'Complacent Aesthete';
- Kotalipa, the 'Peasant Guru';
- Kuchipa, the 'Goitre-Necked Yogin';
- Kukkuripa, the 'Dog Lover';
- Kumbharipa, 'the Potter';
- Laksminkara, 'The Mad Princess';
- Lilapa, the 'Royal Hedonist';
- Luchikapa, the 'Escapist';
- Luyipa, the 'Fish-Gut Eater';
- Mahipa, the 'Greatest';
- Manibhadra, the 'Model Wife' or the 'Happy Housewife';
- Medhini, the 'Tired Farmer';
- Mekhala, the elder of the two Headless Sisters or Severed-Headed Sisters;
- Mekopa, the 'Wild-Eyed Guru' (or the 'Guru Dread-Stare');
- Minapa, the 'Fisherman';
- Nagabodhi, the 'Red-Horned Thief';
- Nalinapa, the 'Self-Reliant Prince';
- Nirgunapa, the 'Enlightened Moron';
- Pacharipa, the 'Pastrycook';
- Pankajapa, the 'Lotus-Born Brahmin';
- Putalipa, the 'Mendicant Icon-Bearer';
- Rahula, the 'Rejuvenated Dotard';
- Saraha, the 'Arrow Maker';
- Samudra, the 'Pearl Diver';
- Shantipa, the 'Academic' (or the 'Complacent Missionary')
- Sarvabhaksa, the 'Empty-Bellied Siddha' (or the 'Glutton');
- Shavaripa, the 'Hunter';
- Tantepa, the 'Gambler';
- Tantipa, the 'Senile Weaver';
- Thaganapa, the 'Compulsive Liar';
- Udhilipa, the 'Flying Siddha' (the 'Bird-Man');
- Upanaha, the 'Bootmaker';
- Vinapa, the 'Music Lover', the 'Musician';
- Vyalipa, the 'Courtesan's Alchemist'.
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Further Reading
- Abhayadatta, Buddha's Lions: Lives of the Eighty-four Siddhas, translated by James B. Robinson (Emeryville: Dharma Publishing, 1979).
- Keith Dowman
- Buddhist Masters of Enchantment: The Lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas (Rochester: Inner Traditions, 1998)
- Masters of Mahāmudrā: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-four Buddhist Siddhas (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986)
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