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Offering a modern translation of "The Legends of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas," a 12th-century Tibetan text, translator Keith Dowman shares stories of the spiritual adventurers, rebellious saints, and enlightened tantric masters of ancient India known as "siddhas." He shows how the mahasiddhas arose from the grassroots of society and represented an entire spectrum of human experience. Counted among the greatest of the siddhas are a washerman, a cowboy, a thief, a conman, a gambler, and a whore, all extraordinary men and women who attained the goal of their meditations, as well as enlightenment and magical powers, by disregarding convention and penetrating to the core of life. Recounting the magical and "crazy" deeds of the mahasiddhas, such as walking through walls, flying, talking with birds, and turning people to stone, Dowman reveals the human qualities of the tantric masters and the vital elements of the siddhas' philosophy of nonduality and emptiness. Richly illustrated with paintings of the tantric saints by artist Robert Beer, these stories of the mahasiddhas show us a way through human suffering into a spontaneous and free state of oneness with the divine.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Buddhism

• Full title: Legends of the Mahasiddhas
• Author: Keith Dowman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781620553657
• ISBN: 1620553651
• ID: 02750381
• Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Weight: 634 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 179 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. October 2014

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