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== Early life == | |||
[[File:Kukkuripa.jpg|thumb|Kukkuripa]] | [[File:Kukkuripa.jpg|thumb|Kukkuripa]] | ||
'''Kukkuripa''' was a [[mahasiddha]] who lived in India.<ref name="beerdowman">{{cite book | author=Robert Beer (illustrator), Keith Dowman (translator), and Bhaga Tulku Pema Tenzin (translator) | title=Buddhist Masters of Enchantment: The Lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas | publisher=Inner Traditions | isbn=0-89281-784-4 <!-- isbn13=978-0892817849 --> | date=1998-06-01}}</ref><ref name="dowmantenzin">{{cite book | author=Mondup Sherab (author), Keith Dowman (translator), and Bhaga Tulku Pema Tenzin (translator) | title=Legends of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas (Grub thob brgyad bcu tsa bzhi'i lo rgyus) | publisher=State University of New York Press: Albany, NY <!-- | isbn= --> | year=1985}}</ref> He became interested in [[Vajrayana|tantric Buddhist]] practice, and chose the path of renunciation. During his travels, he found a starving dog in a bush. Moved by compassion, he fed the dog and took care of her. The two stayed together and eventually found a cave where Kukkuripa could meditate in peace. When he went out for food, the dog would stay and guard the cave. | '''Kukkuripa''' was a [[mahasiddha]] who lived in India.<ref name="beerdowman">{{cite book | author=Robert Beer (illustrator), Keith Dowman (translator), and Bhaga Tulku Pema Tenzin (translator) | title=Buddhist Masters of Enchantment: The Lives and Legends of the Mahasiddhas | publisher=Inner Traditions | isbn=0-89281-784-4 <!-- isbn13=978-0892817849 --> | date=1998-06-01}}</ref><ref name="dowmantenzin">{{cite book | author=Mondup Sherab (author), Keith Dowman (translator), and Bhaga Tulku Pema Tenzin (translator) | title=Legends of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas (Grub thob brgyad bcu tsa bzhi'i lo rgyus) | publisher=State University of New York Press: Albany, NY <!-- | isbn= --> | year=1985}}</ref> He became interested in [[Vajrayana|tantric Buddhist]] practice, and chose the path of renunciation. During his travels, he found a starving dog in a bush. Moved by compassion, he fed the dog and took care of her. The two stayed together and eventually found a cave where Kukkuripa could meditate in peace. When he went out for food, the dog would stay and guard the cave.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chattopadhyay|first=Alaka Tr|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.298985|title=Churashi Siddhar Kahini|date=1960|pages=75}}</ref> | ||
One day, after 12 years passed, the stories say that the gods of the Thirty-three sensual heavens took note of Kukkuripa's accomplishments, and invited him to their heavens. He accepted, and while there he was given many pleasureable things, such as great feasts. Every time he would think of his loyal dog, left behind at the cave, he would begin to think that he should return to her, but every time they would convince him to stay. | One day, after 12 years passed, the stories say that the gods of the Thirty-three sensual heavens took note of Kukkuripa's accomplishments, and invited him to their heavens. He accepted, and while there he was given many pleasureable things, such as great feasts. Every time he would think of his loyal dog, left behind at the cave, he would begin to think that he should return to her, but every time they would convince him to stay. | ||
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Kukkuripa was known for his | == As a monk-poet == | ||
Kukkuripa<ref>{{Citation |title=Charyapada |date=2022-06-21 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charyapada&oldid=1094222119 |work=Wikipedia |language=en |access-date=2022-06-21}}</ref> was known for his Tantric [[songs of realization]] and three of his verses appear in the [[Charyapada]], a collection of songs from 8-12th Century [[India]]. | |||
This Tantric Buddhist monk contributed 2, 20 and 48 songs among the [[Charyapada|50]] songs referred in the discovered manuscript, the Charyapada'. The 48 song is missing from the manuscript, though other two songs were retained in the manuscript[https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Charyapada]. The translations of the two poems in [[Charyapada#The Feminine Exuberance in Kukkuripa|English]] reveals that Kukkuripa had experimentation with "SOMROS" and "KAAMROS", the excess of 'alcoholic drink' and 'sexuality'. He created an atmosphere in these poems as if we were living in the time and places where people have to indulge in epicurean outfit. You kiss the song maid and become immortal. The song maid makes wine for your pleasure. Here, the song maid is the epicenter for your attainment of that elated state of soul that is out of disease, decay and regeneration. The poem, 20 presents the eternal appeal of a craving beloved vis-a-vis a mother who is satiated through the communion with her satisfied, monk and gets redemption consequently. The mother soul is even not satisfied as the baby boy cannot retain stainless existence. All is the victim to peril: | |||
The bottle empties to the lees | |||
Exhausting by union with the clergy sexless. | |||
Rising out of the womb that I saw | |||
Hoped for other though I missed as an awe. | |||
The boy that I wanted as a ma | |||
So ill-fate the boy truly he has flaw. | |||
My youthful passion killed the puberty off | |||
The glittering glow drove the darkening shaft. | |||
All the rivulets meet at the estuary | |||
You know the axiom; you out of the aviary.[[Charyapada#The Feminine Exuberance in Kukkuripa|{Charyapada#The Feminine Exuberance in Kukkuripa]]} | |||
Thus; the mundanity has been made the content for the purpose to serve the preaching easily to the common mass.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sahidullaha |first=Muhammad |title=Buddhist Mystic Songs |publisher=Mawla Brothers |year=2019 |isbn=9844104750 |edition=3rd |location=Dhaka, Bangladesh |pages=72-73 |language=English}}</ref> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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*[http://www.himalayanart.org/image.cfm/59806.html Indian Adept (mahasiddha) - Kukkuripa statue] | *[http://www.himalayanart.org/image.cfm/59806.html Indian Adept (mahasiddha) - Kukkuripa statue] | ||
*[http://www.keithdowman.net/books/bme.htm#KUKKURIPA,%20The%20Dog%20Lover Kukkuripa, the Dog Lover] | *[http://www.keithdowman.net/books/bme.htm#KUKKURIPA,%20The%20Dog%20Lover Kukkuripa, the Dog Lover] | ||
*[[Charyapada#The Feminine Exuberance in Kukkuripa]] | |||
[[Category:Buddhist yogis]] | [[Category:Buddhist yogis]] | ||
[[Category:Mahasiddhas]] | [[Category:Mahasiddhas]] | ||
[[Category:Indian Buddhists]] | [[Category:Indian Buddhists]] | ||