Drugpa Künleg

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Drugpa Künleg or ʾBrug-pa Kun-legs (1455–1570). Tibetan, best-known as one of the ‘holy fools’ of Tibet. He was trained in the Drugpa school of the Kagyüpa, but he adopted the ascetic life of a wanderer, which was nevertheless demonstrated in consumption of beer and women—in a quasi-Tantric style of non-attachment even in action. He is believed to be the reappearance in bodily form of Saraha and Śavaripa, two mahāsiddhas.