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Machik’s Complete Explanation: Clarifying the Meaning of Chöd, A Complete Explanation of Casting Out the Body as Food |
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Harding, Sarah (引言)
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Harding, Sarah (譯)
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| Edition | Expanded Edition |
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| Date | 2013.05.14 |
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| Pages | 416 |
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| Publisher | Snow Lion Publications |
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https://www.snowlionpub.com/
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| Location | Ithaca, NY, US [伊薩卡, 紐約州, 美國] |
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| Series | Tsadra |
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| Series No. | 11 |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Sarah Harding has been a Buddhist practitioner since 1974 and has been teaching and translating since completing a three year retreat in 1980 under the guidance of Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche. Her publications include Zhije and Chöd, respectively the thirteenth and fourteenth volumes of The Treasury of Precious Instructions series. She was an associate professor at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, starting in 1992, and has been a fellow of the Tsadra Foundation since 2000. |
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| Abstract | Fear, anger, and negativity are states that each of us have to contend with. Machik’s Complete Explanation, the most famous book of the teachings of Machik Lapdrön, the great female saint and yogini of eleventh- to twelfth-century Tibet, addresses these issues in a practical, direct way.
Machik developed a system, the Mahamudra Chöd, that takes the Buddha’s teachings as a basis and applies them to the immediate experiences of negative mind states and malignant forces. Her unique feminine approach is to invoke and nurture the very “demons” that we fear and hate, transforming those reactive emotions into love. It is the tantric version of developing compassion and fearlessness, a radical method of cutting through ego-fixation.
This expanded edition includes Machik Lapdrön’s earliest known teaching, the original source text for the tradition, The Great Bundle of Precepts on Severance (Chöd). This pithy set of instructions reveals that the teachings of the perfection of wisdom are the true inspiration for Chöd. It is beautifully clarified in a short commentary by Rangjung Dorje, the Third Karmapa. |
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| Table of contents | Foreword by Thrangu Rinpoche 9
Acknowledgements 11
Preface 13
Introduction 21
1. TRAINING 57
Previous Life in India 57
Her Birthplace, Parents ,and Birth 59
Childhood 63
Life As a Recitation Chaplain With Lama Drapa 65
First Meeting with Dampa Sangye 66
Meeting with Sönam Lama 67
Empowerment 69
Other Masters 72
Teachings from Dampa Sangye 72
Synopsis 75
2. MATURITY 77
Meeting Töpa Bhadra 77
Empowerment from Sönam Lama 81
Empowerment from Dampa 83
The Red House of Copper Mountain 84
Encounter with Tārā 86
Tönyön Samdrup 89
The Inquisition of the Indian Panditas 93
Machik's Teachings and Transmissions 98
3. THE QUETIONS OF TÖNYÖN SAMDRUP 103
How Tönyön Perceives Machik 106
How She Emanates 107
The Five Degenerations 107
The Specialness of Chöd 109
About Mahāmudrā 114
4. THE QUESTIONS OF GANGPA MUKSANG 117
The Four Devils 117
When to Sever Them 121
Six Kinds of Gods and Demons 123
Evidence of Success at Severance 133
5. TÖNYÖN QUESTIONS ON CHÖD 137
Giving Rise to the Resolve for Enlightenment and Gathering the Guests 140
Meditating on the Objects of Refuge, Training the Mind in the Four Immeasurables, and Inviting the Field of Accumulation 144
Paying Homage with the Eight Branches and Making Offerings 153
Separating Body and Mind (powa) and Offering the Mandala 156
Supplicating and Bringing Down Blessings 162
Offering the Body and Giving It in Charity 163
Concluding with the Dedication, Prayers, and Dissolution 181
6. THE QUESTIONS OF GYENEMA 185
Death and Dying 185
Divisions of the Body 189
Outer and Inner Gods and Demons 195
Characteristics of the Body 196
The Syllables Ha, Hung, and P'e 203
7. THE QUESTIONS OF CHÖKYI SENGE 205
The Ten Obligations 205
Dress Styles of Chöd 207
Identifying Local Spirits 212
Size and Quantities in the Chöd Visualizations 214
Uprisings, Apparitions, Evidence of Success, and Evidence of Severance 217
The Common and Uncommon Evidence of Success 221
8. THE QUESTION OF JETSUN ZILNÖN 231
Outer and Inner Apparitions of Spirits 231
General Apparitions 247
Special Occurrences 250
9. THE QUESTIONS OF SÖNAM GYEN 253
Future Corruption of State Law 253
10. MORE QUESTIONS OF SÖNAM GYEN 261
Future Deterioration of Religious Ethics 261
The Future of Chöd 271
Colophon 282
Abbreviations Used in Notes 283
Notes 285
Glossary 329
Bibliography 339
Index 347 |
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| ISBN | 9781559394147 (hc); 9780834829084 (Ebook) |
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| Hits | 76 |
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| Created date | 2023.09.06 |
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| Modified date | 2023.09.08 |
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