| [[Saraha]] [[ས་ར་ཧ]] [[sa ra ha]] [[sah-rah-hah]] ([[सरह]] - [[saraha]], [[year of birth]] around [[720]], [[year of death]] around [[800]]), also known as [[Rahulabhadra]] [[སྒྲ་གཅན་འཛིན་བཟང་པོ]] [[sgra gcan 'dzin bzang po]] [[drah-chen-dzin sahng-poh]] ([[राहुलभद्र]] - [[rāhulabhadra]]), was an iconic [[8th century]] Indian [[mahāsiddha]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཆེན་པོ]] [[grub thob chen po]] [[droop-tohp chen-poh]] ([[महासिद्ध]] - [[mahāsiddha]]) from eastern [[India]] [[རྒྱ་གར]] [[rgya gar]] [[gyah-gar]] who is universally revered in [[Tibetan]] [[Buddhism]] [[ནང་པའི་ཆོས]] [[nang pa'i chos]] [[nahng-peh chuh]] ([[बौद्धधर्म]] - [[bauddhadharma]]) as the primordial human progenitor of the [[Mahamudra]] [[ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ]] [[phyag rgya chen po]] [[chahk-gyah chen-poh]] ([[महामुद्रा]] - [[mahāmudrā]]) lineage. Originally a brilliant Brahmin scholar and ordained monk at the monastic university of Nalanda, [[Saraha]] renounced rigid scholasticism after receiving direct [[Tantra]] [[རྒྱུད]] [[rgyud]] [[gyoo]] ([[तन्त्र]] - [[tantra]]) guidance in a dream and subsequently taking an arrowsmith woman as his spiritual consort and guru, living at a cremation ground where he crafted arrows—earning his name [[Saraha]], the Arrow-Shooter, for piercing dualistic conceptual thought with non-dual awareness. Standing among the [[Eighty-Four Mahasiddhas]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི]] [[grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi]] [[droop-tohp gyeh-choo tsah-zhee]] ([[चतुरशीतिसिद्धाः]] - [[caturaśītisiddhāḥ]]) and serving as the direct teacher of [[Nagarjuna]] [[ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ]] [[klu sgrub]] [[loo-droop]] ([[नागार्जुन]] - [[nāgārjuna]], [[150]]–[[250]]) and [[Shavaripa]] [[ཤ་བ་རི་པ]] [[sha ba ri pa]] [[shah-wah-ree-pah]] ([[शबरिपा]] - [[śabaripā]]) in the transmission line descending to [[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 [[Marpa]] [[མར་པ]] [[mar pa]] [[mar-pah]] ([[1012]]–[[1097]]) into [[Tibet]] [[བོད]] [[bod]] [[pö]], [[Saraha]] composed his famous [[Dohakosha]] [[དོ་ཧ་མཛོད]] [[do ha mdzod]] [[doh-hah dzuh]] ([[दोहाकोश]] - [[dohākośa]], [[Toh 2224]])—a trilogy of spontaneous Apabhramsa songs of realization for the King, Queen, and People—alongside the [[Kaya-vak-citta-manasikara]] [[སྐུ་གསུང་ཐུགས་ཡིད་ལ་བྱེད་པ]] [[sku gsung thugs yid la byed pa]] [[koo-soong-took yee-lah jeh-pah]] ([[कायवाक्चित्तमनसिकार]] - [[kāyavākcittamanasikāra]], [[Toh 2273]]). 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 innate [[wisdom]] [[ཤེས་རབ]] [[shes rab]] [[sheh-rahp]] ([[प्रज्ञा]] - [[prajñā]]) of [[emptiness]] [[སྟོང་པ་ཉིད]] [[stong pa nyid]] [[tohng-pah nyee]] ([[शून्यता]] - [[śūnyatā]]), [[Saraha]] taught effortless, non-conceptual [[meditation]] [[སྒོམ]] [[sgom]] [[gohm]] ([[भावना]] - [[bhāvanā]]) and [[skillful means]] [[ཐབས]] [[thabs]] [[tahp]] ([[उपाय]] - [[upāya]]) to transmute the [[three poisons]] [[དུག་གསུམ]] [[dug gsum]] [[dook-soom]] ([[त्रिविष]] - [[triviṣa]]) and negative [[karma]] [[ལས]] [[las]] [[leh]] ([[कर्म]] - [[karma]]), revealing innate [[Buddha-nature]] [[བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ]] [[bde gshegs snying po]] [[deh-shek nying-poh]] ([[तथागतगर्भ]] - [[tathāgatagarbha]]), dissolving the duality of [[samsara]] [[འཁོར་བ]] [['khor ba]] [[kor-wah]] ([[संसार]] - [[saṃsāra]]) and [[nirvana]] [[མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ]] [[mya ngan las 'das pa]] [[nyah-ngen leh deh-pah]] ([[निर्वाण]] - [[nirvāṇa]]), and leading directly to supreme [[awakening]] [[བྱང་ཆུབ]] [[byang chub]] [[jahng-choop]] ([[बोधि]] - [[bodhi]]). | [[Saraha]] [[ས་ར་ཧ]] [[sa ra ha]] [[sah-rah-hah]] ([[सरह]] - [[saraha]], [[year of birth]] around [[720]], [[year of death]] around [[800]]), also known as [[Rahulabhadra]] [[སྒྲ་གཅན་འཛིན་བཟང་པོ]] [[sgra gcan 'dzin bzang po]] [[drah-chen-dzin sahng-poh]] ([[राहुलभद्र]] - [[rāhulabhadra]]), was an iconic [[8th century]] Indian [[mahāsiddha]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཆེན་པོ]] [[grub thob chen po]] [[droop-tohp chen-poh]] ([[महासिद्ध]] - [[mahāsiddha]]) from eastern [[India]] [[རྒྱ་གར]] [[rgya gar]] [[gyah-gar]] who is universally revered in [[Tibetan]] [[Buddhism]] [[ནང་པའི་ཆོས]] [[nang pa'i chos]] [[nahng-peh chuh]] ([[बौद्धधर्म]] - [[bauddhadharma]]) as the primordial human progenitor of the [[Mahamudra]] [[ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ]] [[phyag rgya chen po]] [[chahk-gyah chen-poh]] ([[महामुद्रा]] - [[mahāmudrā]]) lineage. Originally a brilliant Brahmin scholar and ordained monk at the monastic university of Nalanda, [[Saraha]] renounced rigid scholasticism after receiving direct [[Tantra]] [[རྒྱུད]] [[rgyud]] [[gyoo]] ([[तन्त्र]] - [[tantra]]) guidance in a dream and subsequently taking an arrowsmith woman as his spiritual consort and guru, living at a cremation ground where he crafted arrows—earning his name [[Saraha]], the Arrow-Shooter, for piercing dualistic conceptual thought with non-dual awareness. Standing among the [[Eighty-Four Mahasiddhas]] [[གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི]] [[grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi]] [[droop-tohp gyeh-choo tsah-zhee]] ([[चतुरशीतिसिद्धाः]] - [[caturaśītisiddhāḥ]]) and serving as the direct teacher of [[Nagarjuna]] [[ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ]] [[klu sgrub]] [[loo-droop]] ([[नागार्जुन]] - [[nāgārjuna]], [[150]]–[[250]]) and [[Shavaripa]] [[ཤ་བ་རི་པ]] [[sha ba ri pa]] [[shah-wah-ree-pah]] ([[शबरिपा]] - [[śabaripā]]) in the transmission line descending to [[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 [[Marpa]] [[མར་པ]] [[mar pa]] [[mar-pah]] ([[1012]]–[[1097]]) into [[Tibet]] [[བོད]] [[bod]] [[pö]], [[Saraha]] composed his famous [[Dohakosha]] [[དོ་ཧ་མཛོད]] [[do ha mdzod]] [[doh-hah dzuh]] ([[दोहाकोश]] - [[dohākośa]], [[Toh 2224]])—a trilogy of spontaneous Apabhramsa songs of realization for the King, Queen, and People—alongside the [[Kaya-vak-citta-manasikara]] [[སྐུ་གསུང་ཐུགས་ཡིད་ལ་བྱེད་པ]] [[sku gsung thugs yid la byed pa]] [[koo-soong-took yee-lah jeh-pah]] ([[कायवाक्चित्तमनसिकार]] - [[kāyavākcittamanasikāra]], [[Toh 2273]]). 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 innate [[wisdom]] [[ཤེས་རབ]] [[shes rab]] [[sheh-rahp]] ([[प्रज्ञा]] - [[prajñā]]) of [[emptiness]] [[སྟོང་པ་ཉིད]] [[stong pa nyid]] [[tohng-pah nyee]] ([[शून्यता]] - [[śūnyatā]]), [[Saraha]] taught effortless, non-conceptual [[meditation]] [[སྒོམ]] [[sgom]] [[gohm]] ([[भावना]] - [[bhāvanā]]) and [[skillful means]] [[ཐབས]] [[thabs]] [[tahp]] ([[उपाय]] - [[upāya]]) to transmute the [[three poisons]] [[དུག་གསུམ]] [[dug gsum]] [[dook-soom]] ([[त्रिविष]] - [[triviṣa]]) and negative [[karma]] [[ལས]] [[las]] [[leh]] ([[कर्म]] - [[karma]]), revealing innate [[Buddha-nature]] [[བདེ་གཤེགས་སྙིང་པོ]] [[bde gshegs snying po]] [[deh-shek nying-poh]] ([[तथागतगर्भ]] - [[tathāgatagarbha]]), dissolving the duality of [[samsara]] [[འཁོར་བ]] [['khor ba]] [[kor-wah]] ([[संसार]] - [[saṃsāra]]) and [[nirvana]] [[མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ]] [[mya ngan las 'das pa]] [[nyah-ngen leh deh-pah]] ([[निर्वाण]] - [[nirvāṇa]]), and leading directly to supreme [[awakening]] [[བྱང་ཆུབ]] [[byang chub]] [[jahng-choop]] ([[बोधि]] - [[bodhi]]). |
