The mahāsiddhas were tantric yogins of India between about the eighth and twelfth centuries, traditionally counted as eighty-four. Their songs and lives, often scandalous to convention, celebrate the realization of the mind’s nature in ordinary life. Saraha, Tilopa and Nāropa are among the best known.
Mahāsiddha
A great adept: one of the tantric masters of medieval India, often unconventional, revered in Vajrayāna.
Also: Mahasiddha