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चतुरशीतिसिद्धप्रवृत्ति

གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞིའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས།

grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi'i lo rgyus

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The Caturaśītisiddhapravṛtti (Tibetan: Grub thob brgyad bcu rtsa bzhi'i lo rgyus) is a 12th-century hagiographical text detailing the lives of the 84 Mahāsiddhas (great accomplished ones) of Indian Tantric Buddhism. It is primarily attributed to the author Abhayadattaśrī (Tibetan: Mi 'jigs pa sbyin pa dpal).

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Abhayadatta (མི་འཇིགས་པ་སྦྱིན་པ་དཔལ་). Caturaśītisiddhapravṛtti [चतुरशीतिसिद्धप्रवृत्ति]. grub thob brgyad cu rtsa bzhi'i lo rgyus [གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞིའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས།]. Tengyur, RKTST 3843 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3843&typ=2.

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Robinson, James B., and Möndrup Sherab, trans. Buddha's Lions: The Lives of the Eighty-Four Siddhas. By Abhayadatta. Tibetan Translation Series 10. Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing, 1979. https://archive.org/details/buddhaslionschaturasittasiddhapravrittiabhayadattalivesof84siddhasjamesrobinsonb.similartojatak_805_G/mode/2up.

Books1979About this item

Stories of the 84 tantric masters; Contains the Tibetan text, notes on iconography, and charts linking the siddhas, their teachers, and the practices which led them to enlightenment.

Bruyat, Christian, and Patrick Carré (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. Mahasiddhas: La vie de 84 sages de l'Inde. By Abhayadatta. Saint-Léon-sur-Vézère, FR: Padmakara, 2003.

Books2003About this item

French translation of the Caturaśītisiddhapravṛtti—The Lives of the 84 Mahāsiddhas. Contains material on the life of "Bhusuku," or Shantideva.

Dowman, Keith. Masters of Mahāmudrā: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-Four Buddhist Siddhas. SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985. http://promienie.net/images/dharma/books/abhayadatta_masters-of-mahamudra.pdf.

Books1985About this item

Keith Dowman's translation of the songs of realization of the 84 mahāsiddhas; Includes the life of Mahāsiddha Bhusuku (Śāntideva), The Idle Monk.

1 Partial translations

Dowman, Keith. "The Mahāsiddha Bhusuku (Śāntideva), The Idle Monk." Chap. 41 in Masters of Mahāmudrā: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-Four Buddhist Siddhas. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985.

Articles1985About this item

Keith Dowman's English translation of the Śāntideva chapter of Abhayadatta's Caturaśītisiddhapravṛtti, The Songs of Realization of the 84 Mahāsiddhas.

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