Tibbetibaba

Who was Tibbetibaba?

Tibbetibaba Bengali: তিব্বতিবাবা, Hindi:तिब्बती बाबा, also known as Mahasadhak Tibbetibaba or Paramhamsa Tibbetibaba, alternative spellings Tibbatibaba, Tibbati Baba, Tibbeti Baba,Tibbotibaba or Tibboti Baba originally named Nabin Chattopadhhyaya or Nabin or Nabin Chandra, was a famous Bengali philosopher saint. He was one of the few saints in India whose life was an amalgamation of the Advaita Vedanta doctrine of Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhist doctrine. Swami Vivekananda was an ardent believer of Vedanta as well as a great admirer of Gautama Buddha. Vivekananda had called Buddha the ideal Karma yogi. Tibbetibaba was a master of all the eight siddhis and supposedly had remarkable healing powers. Even though he was master of all the siddhis, he was not personally interested in using them.