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Title: The siddha as a cultural category
Author/Creator: Samuel, Geoffrey
Institution: The Unviersity of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: For the Tibetans, siddhas are above all heroic figures of the Buddhist path to Enlightenment. Many of the spiritual lineages of Tibetan tantric (Vajrayāna) practice trace their origins to named Indian mahāsiddhas. The Tibetans borrowed the concepts of siddha and mahāsiddhas from the Vajrayāna Buddhism of North India, and translated the terms into Tibetan. Within a couple of centuries, Tibetans were describing some of their own tantric practitioners as siddhas (Tib. drubtop) and mahāsiddhas (Tib. drupchen).
Relation: Holy Madness: Portraits of Tantric Siddhas p. 36-47
Relation: http://www.serindia.com/item.cfm/164
Date: 2006
Publisher: Serindia
Keyword(s): siddha; Vajrayāna Buddhism; mahāsiddhas; Enlightenment
Resource Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923869
Identifier: ISBN:9781932476262

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