Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness

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’s poetic verses made the esoteric ideas and practices of Vajrayāna accessible to a wide audience on the Indian subcontinent and served as a b...