This book is a translation of stories of the 84 mahasiddhas.

These Mahasiddhas were accomplished practitioners who lived outside the monasteries in India and praticed Mahamudra without the constraints of vows and certain behaviors in the 8th to 12th century in India. The stories are fascinating because the pradtitioners were ordinary men and women who had many different backgrounds.

Keith Dowman translated their songs of reaiization and related their experiences and teachings to the modern practice of Mahamudra.