Item: Indian Adept (siddha) - Saukarika
| Origin Location | Tibet |
|---|---|
| Lineages | Buddhist |
| Material | Metal |
| Collection | Private |
Classification: Person
Appearance: Lay Person
Gender: Male
Saukarika, the Swine Herder, #25 from the group of Eighty-four Mahasiddhas according to the Vajrasana system of enumeration.
Inscription: བྲམ་ཟེ་སངས་རྒྱས་དངོས་དང་མཇལ། དགེ་བསྙེན་ལུས་ལ་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྙེས། ཕག་ཚང་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཡི། བླ་མ་དེ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ཨོཾ་སུ་པྲ་ཏིཤྠ་བཛྲ་ཡེ་སྭ་ཧཱ།
Translation: "Made at Nyug, given to the Great Assembly." "A Brahmin who actually saw the Buddha, Gaining the attainments in the form of a layman vow-holder, Known as the Swine Herder, To that teacher I bow. Om supra tishta vajraye svaha."
Jeff Watt & Karma Gellek 2-2017
Indian Adept Main Page (Mahasiddha)
Collection: Portraits of the Masters
Sculpture: Miscellaneous (Portraits of the Masters)
Sculpture: Eighty-four Mahasiddha Set (Portraits of the Masters)
Collection: Portraits of the Masters (Inscriptions)