Editing Mahasiddha (section)

==Genealogy and historical dates==
The exact [[genealogy]] and historical dates of the Mahasiddhas are contentious. As Jackson notes, "despite their importance and influence, the siddhas ... remain profoundly elusive, especially to the historian. We don’t know exactly who they were, what religious allegiance they claimed, where or when—or even if—they lived, or how many of the works attributed to them really are theirs".<ref>{{Cite book |title=Tantric treasures: three collections of mystical verse from Buddhist India |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-516640-8 |editor-last=Jackson |editor-first=Roger R. |location=New York |pages=5 |editor-last2=Saraha |editor-last3=Kṛṣṇavajrapāda |editor-last4=Ti-lo-pa |editor-last5=Kr̥nsṇavajrapāda |editor-last6=Tillopāda}}</ref> Comparing Abhayadattaśrī's and Ratnākaragupta's Vajrāsana lists of the 84 siddhas, Lopez found that only 34 names are held in common.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Lopez |first=Donald S. |title=Seeing the sacred in samsara: an illustrated guide to the eighty-four tantric mahāsiddhas |date=2019 |publisher=Shambhala |isbn=978-1-61180-404-1 |location=Boulder, Colorado |pages=8}}</ref> Dowman (1986) holds that they all lived between 750 and 1150 CE.