Bamakhyapa's Temple. Maluti village, Jharkhand He perfected yoga and Tantric (worship), which resulted in his becoming the spiritual head of Tarapith. People came to him seeking blessings or cures for their illness, in distress or just to meet him. He did not follow the set rules of the temple and as result was even once roughed up by the temple priests for taking food meant as offering for the deity. It is said: Tara appeared in the dream of ('Queen') of and told her to feed the saint first as he was her son. After this incident, Bamakhepa was fed first in the temple before the deity and nobody obstructed him. It is believed that Tara gave a vision to Bamakhepa in the cremation grounds in her ferocious form and then took him to her breast.

Story of Bamakhyapa, a legendary sage from Bengal. A devotee of Goddess Kali, It is said that he had tremendous supernatural power. Colors Bangla Sonar Darshak TnC.

Popular culture [ ] Beginning in 2007, a teleserial named 'Sadhak Bamakhepa' about Bamakhepa ran on television in Bengal. Guilty Gear Original Sound Collection here. By late 2011, it had run for 1500 episodes.