| A [[mahā-siddha]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཆེན་པོ]] [[grub thob chen po]] [[droop-tohp chen-poh]] ([[महासिद्ध]] - [[mahāsiddha]]), meaning great accomplished one or perfected adept, refers to an esoteric tantric yogi or yogini in [[Vajrayana]] [[རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ]] [[rdo rje theg pa]] [[dor-jeh tek-pah]] ([[वज्रयान]] - [[vajrayāna]]) [[Buddhism]] [[ནང་པའི་ཆོས]] [[nang pa'i chos]] [[nahng-peh chuh]] ([[बौद्धधर्म]] - [[bauddhadharma]]) who has attained supreme spiritual realization and siddhis through the mastery of [[Tantra]] [[རྒྱུད]] [[rgyud]] [[gyoo]] ([[तन्त्र]] - [[tantra]]). As an archetypal spiritual title and historical movement rather than a single individual, the term has no [[year of birth]] or [[year of death]], having flourished primarily in [[India]] [[རྒྱ་གར]] [[rgya gar]] [[gyah-gar]] between the [[8th century]] and [[12th century]] and subsequently transmitted to [[Tibet]] [[བོད]] [[bod]] [[pö]]. Traditionally enumerated as the [[Eighty-Four Mahasiddhas]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི]] [[grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi]] [[droop-tohp gyeh-choo tsah-zhee]] ([[चतुरशीतिसिद्धाः]] - [[caturaśītisiddhāḥ]]) as recorded in the [[Caturasiti-siddha-pravrtti]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞིའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས]] [[grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi'i lo rgyus]] [[droop-tohp gyeh-choo tsah-zhee loh-gyoo]] ([[चतुरशीतिसिद्धप्रवृत्ति]] - [[caturaśītisiddhapravṛtti]], [[Toh 2292]]), these unconventional adepts—including figures from all walks of life such as kings, outcasts, hunters, and scholars like [[Saraha]] [[ས་ར་ཧ]] [[sa ra ha]] [[sah-rah-hah]] ([[सरह]] - [[saraha]]), [[Virupa]] [[བིར་ཝ་པ]] [[bir wa pa]] [[beer-wah-pah]] ([[विरूप]] - [[virūpa]]), [[Tilopa]] [[ཏི་ལོ་པ]] [[ti lo pa]] [[tee-loh-pah]] ([[988]]–[[1069]]), [[Naropa]] [[ནཱ་རོ་པ]] [[nA ro pa]] [[nah-roh-pah]] ([[1016]]–[[1100]]), and [[Padmasambhava]] [[པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས]] [[pad+ma 'byung gnas]] [[peh-mah joong-neh]] ([[पद्मसंभव]] - [[padmasaṃbhava]])—bypassed rigid monastic convention in favor of direct contemplative experience. Grounded in [[bodhicitta]] [[བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས]] [[byang chub kyi sems]] [[jahng-choop kyee sem]] ([[बोधिचित्त]] - [[bodhicitta]]), [[compassion]] [[སྙིང་རྗེ]] [[snying rje]] [[nying-jeh]] ([[करुणा]] - [[karuṇā]]), and the profound [[wisdom]] [[ཤེས་རབ]] [[shes rab]] [[sheh-rahp]] ([[प्रज्ञा]] - [[prajñā]]) of [[emptiness]] [[སྟོང་པ་ཉིད]] [[stong pa nyid]] [[tohng-pah nyee]] ([[शून्यता]] - [[śūnyatā]]), a [[mahāsiddha]] utilizes [[skillful means]] [[ཐབས]] [[thabs]] [[tahp]] ([[उपाय]] - [[upāya]]), [[meditation]] [[སྒོམ]] [[sgom]] [[gohm]] ([[भावना]] - [[bhāvanā]]), and spontaneous songs of realization [[doha]] [[དོ་ཧ]] [[do ha]] [[doh-hah]] ([[दोहा]] - [[dohā]]) to transmute the [[three poisons]] [[དུག་གསུམ]] [[dug gsum]] [[dook-soom]] ([[त्रिविष]] - [[triviṣa]]) and negative [[karma]] [[ལས]] [[las]] [[leh]] ([[कर्म]] - [[karma]]), fully realizing innate [[Buddha-nature]] [[བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ]] [[bde gshegs snying po]] [[deh-shek nying-poh]] ([[तथागतगर्भ]] - [[tathāgatagarbha]]), transcending [[samsara]] [[འཁོར་བ]] [['khor ba]] [[kor-wah]] ([[संसार]] - [[saṃsāra]]), and attaining complete [[awakening]] [[བྱང་ཆུབ]] [[byang chub]] [[jahng-choop]] ([[बोधि]] - [[bodhi]]) and [[nirvana]] [[མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ]] [[mya ngan las 'das pa]] [[nyah-ngen leh deh-pah]] ([[निर्वाण]] - [[nirvāṇa]]) within a single lifetime. | A [[mahā-siddha]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཆེན་པོ]] [[grub thob chen po]] [[droop-tohp chen-poh]] ([[महासिद्ध]] - [[mahāsiddha]]), meaning great accomplished one or perfected adept, refers to an esoteric tantric yogi or yogini in [[Vajrayana]] [[རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ]] [[rdo rje theg pa]] [[dor-jeh tek-pah]] ([[वज्रयान]] - [[vajrayāna]]) [[Buddhism]] [[ནང་པའི་ཆོས]] [[nang pa'i chos]] [[nahng-peh chuh]] ([[बौद्धधर्म]] - [[bauddhadharma]]) who has attained supreme spiritual realization and siddhis through the mastery of [[Tantra]] [[རྒྱུད]] [[rgyud]] [[gyoo]] ([[तन्त्र]] - [[tantra]]). As an archetypal spiritual title and historical movement rather than a single individual, the term has no [[year of birth]] or [[year of death]], having flourished primarily in [[India]] [[རྒྱ་གར]] [[rgya gar]] [[gyah-gar]] between the [[8th century]] and [[12th century]] and subsequently transmitted to [[Tibet]] [[བོད]] [[bod]] [[pö]]. Traditionally enumerated as the [[Eighty-Four Mahasiddhas]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི]] [[grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi]] [[droop-tohp gyeh-choo tsah-zhee]] ([[चतुरशीतिसिद्धाः]] - [[caturaśītisiddhāḥ]]) as recorded in the [[Caturasiti-siddha-pravrtti]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞིའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས]] [[grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi'i lo rgyus]] [[droop-tohp gyeh-choo tsah-zhee loh-gyoo]] ([[चतुरशीतिसिद्धप्रवृत्ति]] - [[caturaśītisiddhapravṛtti]], [[Toh 2292]]), these unconventional adepts—including figures from all walks of life such as kings, outcasts, hunters, and scholars like [[Saraha]] [[ས་ར་ཧ]] [[sa ra ha]] [[sah-rah-hah]] ([[सरह]] - [[saraha]]), [[Virupa]] [[བིར་ཝ་པ]] [[bir wa pa]] [[beer-wah-pah]] ([[विरूप]] - [[virūpa]]), [[Tilopa]] [[ཏི་ལོ་པ]] [[ti lo pa]] [[tee-loh-pah]] ([[988]]–[[1069]]), [[Naropa]] [[ནཱ་རོ་པ]] [[nA ro pa]] [[nah-roh-pah]] ([[1016]]–[[1100]]), and [[Padmasambhava]] [[པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས]] [[pad+ma 'byung gnas]] [[peh-mah joong-neh]] ([[पद्मसंभव]] - [[padmasaṃbhava]])—bypassed rigid monastic convention in favor of direct contemplative experience. Grounded in [[bodhicitta]] [[བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས]] [[byang chub kyi sems]] [[jahng-choop kyee sem]] ([[बोधिचित्त]] - [[bodhicitta]]), [[compassion]] [[སྙིང་རྗེ]] [[snying rje]] [[nying-jeh]] ([[करुणा]] - [[karuṇā]]), and the profound [[wisdom]] [[ཤེས་རབ]] [[shes rab]] [[sheh-rahp]] ([[प्रज्ञा]] - [[prajñā]]) of [[emptiness]] [[སྟོང་པ་ཉིད]] [[stong pa nyid]] [[tohng-pah nyee]] ([[शून्यता]] - [[śūnyatā]]), a [[mahāsiddha]] utilizes [[skillful means]] [[ཐབས]] [[thabs]] [[tahp]] ([[उपाय]] - [[upāya]]), [[meditation]] [[སྒོམ]] [[sgom]] [[gohm]] ([[भावना]] - [[bhāvanā]]), and spontaneous songs of realization [[doha]] [[དོ་ཧ]] [[do ha]] [[doh-hah]] ([[दोहा]] - [[dohā]]) to transmute the [[three poisons]] [[དུག་གསུམ]] [[dug gsum]] [[dook-soom]] ([[त्रिविष]] - [[triviṣa]]) and negative [[karma]] [[ལས]] [[las]] [[leh]] ([[कर्म]] - [[karma]]), fully realizing innate [[Buddha-nature]] [[བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ]] [[bde gshegs snying po]] [[deh-shek nying-poh]] ([[तथागतगर्भ]] - [[tathāgatagarbha]]), transcending [[samsara]] [[འཁོར་བ]] [['khor ba]] [[kor-wah]] ([[संसार]] - [[saṃsāra]]), and attaining complete [[awakening]] [[བྱང་ཆུབ]] [[byang chub]] [[jahng-choop]] ([[बोधि]] - [[bodhi]]) and [[nirvana]] [[མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ]] [[mya ngan las 'das pa]] [[nyah-ngen leh deh-pah]] ([[निर्वाण]] - [[nirvāṇa]]) within a single lifetime. |
