Best known as Machig Labdron's teacher, the Indian mahasiddha Padampa
Sangye is counted as a lineage guru by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
He brought the lineage of Chöd to Tibet, carried the Buddha's teachings
to China, and is even asserted in the Tibetan tradition to have been the
legendary Bodhidharma. Padampa Sangye's teaching methods were unorthodox
and sometimes extreme. This transcendent and irascible teacher
encouraged his disciples to disregard social conventions, disdain social
contacts, and go beyond their cultural conditioning. He inspired
innumerable highly realized disciples, many of whom were women. Lion of
Siddhas presents two extraordinary texts: a biography of Padampa
Sangye, and a rare collection of his verbal and nonverbal teachings
called Mahamudra in Symbols, recorded by his chief Tibetan disciple
almost a thousand years ago. Both are previously untranslated.