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Jan 2025
42m 29s

Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Bliss...

Marshall Poe
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The life and works of the mysterious Indian yogin, Saraha, who has inspired Buddhist practitioners for over a thousand years. Saraha, “the Archer,” was a mysterious but influential tenth-century Indian Buddhist tantric adept who expressed his spiritual realization in mystic songs (dohās) that are enlightening, shocking, and confounding by turns.  Saraha: Poe ... Show More
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