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The Divine Madman is the secret biography of one of Tibet's
best-loved saints, the buddha Drukpa Kunley. Drukpa Kunley was a
"nyomba," a crazy yogi who taught through outrageous behavior and
ribald humor, through symbolic action, songs and poetry. Using
people's emotion, neuroses and sexuality, as a tantric yogi through
skillfull means and crazy wisdom he awakened their buddha-nature.
He belonged to the lineage of Tilo, Naro, Marpa and Milarepa and
taught the same profound Mahamudra yoga, but his most secret
teaching was radical Dzogchen, Tibet's existential yoga. He
wandered as a tantric beggar through Central and Southern Tibet in
the 15th century and is still well-known there as the hero of
anti-establishment and anti-monastic tales and the author of bawdy
songs. But in Bhutan he became more than an icon, he still is the
patron saint of a country where the phallus is revered as a
religious icon. This book is a collection of anecdotes and songs
compiled by a Bhutanese scholar, Geshe Chaphu, made last century,
which became a best seller in the Himalayas. It has been translated
by Keith Dowman into easily accessible prose and poetry. Lee
Baarslag has illustrated the work with her fine line-drawings.
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