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Mahasiddha (Tibetan: grub thob chen po or tul shug; Sanskrit: mahasiddha, maha meaning 'great' and siddha meaning adept) is a term for someone who embodies and cultivates siddhi of perfection. They are a type of eccentric yogi in both Hinduism and Vajrayana Buddhism. Sri Akshunnanath Mahaprabhu(Lord Sri Akshunna) a master of siddha sampradaya says "But actually they were somebody who transcended religious designation of whether vajrayana buddhism or hinduism and transcending all religious notion they were simply called Nath(master).This is also the reason why it is said of siddha needed many years of penance to become mahasiddha and after becoming mahasiddha again needed many years of practice to reach the level of Nath". Anyway Mahasiddhas were tantric practitioners, or 'tantrikas' who ha

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  • Mahasiddha (Tibetan: grub thob chen po or tul shug; Sanskrit: mahasiddha, maha meaning 'great' and siddha meaning adept) is a term for someone who embodies and cultivates siddhi of perfection. They are a type of eccentric yogi in both Hinduism and Vajrayana Buddhism. Sri Akshunnanath Mahaprabhu(Lord Sri Akshunna) a master of siddha sampradaya says "But actually they were somebody who transcended religious designation of whether vajrayana buddhism or hinduism and transcending all religious notion they were simply called Nath(master).This is also the reason why it is said of siddha needed many years of penance to become mahasiddha and after becoming mahasiddha again needed many years of practice to reach the level of Nath". Anyway Mahasiddhas were tantric practitioners, or 'tantrikas' who ha
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  • Mahasiddha (Tibetan: grub thob chen po or tul shug; Sanskrit: mahasiddha, maha meaning 'great' and siddha meaning adept) is a term for someone who embodies and cultivates siddhi of perfection. They are a type of eccentric yogi in both Hinduism and Vajrayana Buddhism. Sri Akshunnanath Mahaprabhu(Lord Sri Akshunna) a master of siddha sampradaya says "But actually they were somebody who transcended religious designation of whether vajrayana buddhism or hinduism and transcending all religious notion they were simply called Nath(master).This is also the reason why it is said of siddha needed many years of penance to become mahasiddha and after becoming mahasiddha again needed many years of practice to reach the level of Nath". Anyway Mahasiddhas were tantric practitioners, or 'tantrikas' who had sufficient attainments to act as a guru or tantric master. A Siddha or adept is an individual who, through the practice of sadhana attains the realization of siddhis or psychic and spiritual abilities and powers. Their historical influence throughout the Indic and Himalayan region was vast and they reached mythic proportions which is codified in their songs of realization and hagiographies, or namthar, many of which have been preserved in the Tibetan Buddhist canon. The Mahasiddha are acknowledged as the founders of many Indian and Buddhist traditions and lineages. Robert Thurman, contrasts the Tantric Buddhist communities within which the Mahasidda practiced and taught with the Buddhist universities such as Nalanda which flourished at the same time: The Tantric communities of India in the latter half of the first Common Era millennium (and perhaps even earlier) were something like “Institutes of Advanced Studies” in relation to the great Buddhist monastic “Universities.” They were research centers for highly cultivated, successfully graduated experts in various branches of Inner Science (adhyatmavidya), some of whom were still monastics and could move back and forth from university (vidyalaya) to “site” (pitha), and many of whom had resigned vows of poverty, celibacy, and so forth, and were living in the classical Indian saiñnyãsin or sãdhu style. I call them the "psychonauts" of the tradition, in parallel with our “astronauts,” the materialist scientist-adventurers whom we admire for their courageous explorations of the “outer space” which we consider the matrix of material reality. Inverse astronauts, the psychonauts voyaged deep into “inner space,” encountering and conquering angels and demons in the depths of their subconscious minds. It was the Mahasiddhas who instituted the practices that birthed the Inner Tantras of Dzogchen practiced by the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. The other schools of Tibetan Buddhism and other Vajrayana Buddhists such as Shingon Buddhism practice Mahamudra meditation, also a practice initiated by the original Buddhist Mahasiddha.
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