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Dreaming the Great Brahmin: Tibetan Traditions of the Buddhist Poet-Saint Saraha

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I'm not at all convinced of Kurtis Schaeffer's argument as regards the growth of the Saraha corpus... As Sahara has been presented to me by several teachers who hold lineages descending from either him, himself, or whatever his school of thought was originally, Sahara, himself, is a fairly monolithic character for all that the stories concerning him vary in both tone and content.
Surely, for someone as pivotal in several traditions, anecdotes of many different kinds - 'true', projected and totally imaginary - are bound to crop up.
For all the fact that the research is probably impeccable, the Sahara of this book is *not* the Sahara of the 'Three Songs of Realisation', but another, somewhat less authentic eponymous being with similar, but less exceptional, achievements.