Chakzampa Thangtong Gyalpo is one of the most significant
Mahāsiddhas of Tibet who worked in the first half of the
15thcentury in Tibet and Bhutan. Thangtong Gyalpo was a yogi,
philosopher, poet, exorcist, teacher, architect, engineer, painter,
sculptor, doctor, treasure revealer and last but not least, an iron
chain suspension bridge builder, a universal genius with
supernatural abilities.
The mad saint (sgrub smyon), the destroyer of illusion
(’khrulzhig), the performer of miracles, the medicine man who
dispelled epidemics, the protector from Hor invasions, and the
mender of harmful geomantic configurations (me btsa’ gso ba).He was
also an accomplished master of technology, who built numerous iron
bridges and ferries, erected many devotional objects symbolising
body, speech and mind and allegedly pioneered the fashioning of
statues out of precious stones. He was a great propagator of the
Avalokiteshvara cycle and sadhana
