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{{Infobox Hindu leader<br />
| name = Bamakhepa<br />
| image = Bama_Khepa.jpg<br />
| caption = Bamakhepa<br />
| religion = [[Hinduism]]<br />
| birth_date = 22 February 1837<br />
| birth_place = [[Atla village]], [[Birbhum]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[Company Raj]]<br />
| birth_name = Bamacharan Chattopadhyay<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1911|7|18|1837|2|22|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Tarapith]], [[Birbhum]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj]]<br />
| module = <br />
| death_cause = <br />
| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]<br />
| temple = [[Tarapith]]<br />
| spouse = <br />
| guru = Swami Kailashpati and Vedagya Mokshadananda<br />
| disciples = Tarakhepa and [[Nigamananda Paramahansa]]<br />
| philosophy = {{hlist|[[Shaktism]]}}<br />
| honors = [[Tarapith]] Bhairav<br />
}}<br />
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'''Bamakhyapa''' ({{langx|bn|বামাখ্যাপা|Bamakhæpa|mad Bama}}; 1837–1911<ref name="Kinsely, p. 111">Kinsely, p. 111</ref>), born '''Bamacharan Chattopadhyay''', was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[List of Hindu gurus and saints|Hindu saint]] who resided in [[Tarapith]] and whose shrine is also located in the vicinity of the [[Tarapith Temple]] in Birbhum. He was born at [[Atla village]] in the [[Rampurhat]] subdivision of the Birbhum district.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=THeS46wJ7TMC&q=atla+village+birbhum%2C+BIRTH+PLACE+OF+BAMAKHEPA&pg=PT244 |title = Kali: The Black Goddess of Dakshineswar|isbn = 9780892546008|last1 = Harding|first1 = Elizabeth U.|date = September 1993| publisher=Nicolas-Hays }}</ref><br />
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[[File:Memory_of_Sadhak_Bamakhyapa.jpg|thumb|Memorial of Sadhak Bamakhyapa]]<br />
[[File:Bamakhyapa's_Temple.jpg|thumb|Bamakhyapa's Temple at [[Maluti]] in Jharkhand]] <br />
[[File:Seated Sadhak Bamakhepa (born Bamacharan Chattopadhyay) idol at the Tarapith temple complex.jpg|thumb|200px|Seated Bamakhepa idol at the Tarapith temple complex]]<br />
He was an ardent devotee of Goddess Tara and lived near the temple and meditated in the cremation grounds.<ref name="Kinsely, p. 111" /> He stayed in Mouliksha temple for continuing the worship of Holy Mother.<ref>{{cite news |title=Break-in at heritage temple |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/break-in-at-heritage-temple/cid/1471959 |work=www.telegraphindia.com |publisher=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]] |date=7 December 2013}}</ref> Bamakhyapa was fed first in the temple before the deity and nobody obstructed him.<ref name="Harding">{{Cite book|last= Harding|first= Elizabeth U.|title= Kali: the black goddess of Dakshineswar|pages=275–279|access-date=2010-06-26| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4woiJbQTsBQC&pg=PA274 |publisher= Motilal Banarsidass Publ.|year=1998|isbn=81-208-1450-9}}</ref> It is believed that Goddess Tara gave a vision to Bamakhaypa in the cremation grounds in her ferocious form.<ref name="Kinsely, p. 111" /><br />
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== Popular culture ==<br />
Beginning in 2007, a teleserial named ''<nowiki/>'Sadhak Bamakhepa''' about Bamakhepa ran on television in Bengal. By late 2011, it had run for 1500 episodes.<ref name=etvserial>Gomolo news desk. (29 Nov 2011). [http://www.gomolo.com/news-sadhok-bamakhyapa-gains-popularity/285 "Sadhok Bamakhyapa becomes highly popular"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004092303/http://www.gomolo.com/news-sadhok-bamakhyapa-gains-popularity/285 |date=4 October 2018 }} (accessed 31 Jan 2013)</ref><br />
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In 2019 the teleserial ''[[Mahapeeth Tarapeeth]]'', the life of the ardent devotee Bamakhepa was also depicted elaborately.<ref>{{cite news |title=আসছে নতুন ধারাবাহিক 'মহাপীঠ তারাপীঠ' |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/entertainment/a-new-tv-serial-named-mahapeeth-tarapeeth-is-coming-dgtl-1.940685 |work=www.anandabazar.com |publisher=[[Anandabazar Patrika]] |date=27 January 2022|language=bn}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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*{{Cite book|last= Dalrymple|first=William|title=Nine Lives|pages=203–233|access-date=2010-06-19|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yA1YPgAACAAJ&q=Nine+Lives+William+Dalrymple|publisher= Bloomsbury Publishing Plc|year= 2009|isbn= 978-1-4088-0153-6}}<br />
*{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6nETj-4OaYEC|last=Kinsley|first=David R.|title=Tantric visions of the divine feminine: the ten mahāvidyās|publisher=University of California Press|year=1997|isbn=978-0-520-20499-7}}<br />
*{{cite journal |last1=Ramos |first1=Imma |editor-first1=Imma |editor-last1=Ramos |title=The Myth of the Goddess Sati |journal=Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal |date=2017 |volume=1 |pages=138 |doi=10.4324/9781315223148 |url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315223148 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-315-22314-8|url-access=subscription }}<br />
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