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The Mind of Mahāmudrā: Advice from the Kagyü Masters
Author Roberts, Peter Alan
Date2014
Pages256
PublisherWisdom Publications
Publisher Url http://www.wisdompubs.org/
LocationBoston, MA, US [波士頓, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteAuthor Affiliations:

Peter Alan Roberts was born in Wales and lives in Hollywood, California. He earned a BA in Sanskrit and Pali and a DPhil in Tibetan Studies from Oxford University (Harris-Manchester College). For more than thirty years he has been working as an interpreter for lamas and as a translator of Tibetan texts. He specializes in the literature of the Kagyü and Nyingma traditions with a focus on tantric practices, and he is the author of The Biographies of Rechungpa.
AbstractThe Mind of Mahamudra introduces the conception of mahamudra in India, its transmission to Tibet, and the varying practices within the Kagyü School of Tibetan Buddhism. This volume includes important texts by the Third Karmapa such as “Prayer for the Definitive Meaning” and other texts by Shonu Lha, Lama Shang, Drukchen Pema Karpo, and Tsele Natsok Rangdrol.

Mahāmudrā is a simple, direct method for looking beyond our thoughts to the very nature of conscious experience. It is said mahāmudrā is not attained not because it is too difficult but because it is too easy, not because it is too far but because it is too close, and not because it is hidden but because it is too evident.

The Mind of Mahāmudrā highlights this central meditation practice of the Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism through six texts ranging from the twelfth-century to the seventeenth and including such celebrated authors as Lama Shang and the Third Karmapa. Eminent scholar Peter Alan Roberts draws on his thirty-plus years of experience of translating for Tibetan lamas to illuminate these benchmark translations.
Table of contents[Table of Contents]

General Editor’s Preface
Translator’s Introduction

1. The Unrivaled Instructions of Shang Rinpoché: The Preliminaries and Main Practice of the Great Meditation of Mahāmudrā
Shönu Lha
2. The Ultimate Supreme Path of the Mahāmudrā
Lama Shang
3. A Record of Mahāmudrā Instructions
Drukchen Pema Karpo
4. Instructions for the Mahāmudrā Innate Union
Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé
5. Prayer for the Definitive Meaning, the Mahāmudrā
Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé
6. The Bright Torch: The Perfect Illumination of the True Meaning of the Mahāmudrā, the Essence of All the Dharma
Tselé Natsok Rangdröl

Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
ISBN9781614291954; 9781614292128 (E)
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