1. KARMA CHAGME was born in Tibet in 1613. He was a major lineage holder of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, and his writings have also become central to the Payul Nyingma order.
2. KHENCHEN THRANGU was born in Tibet in 1933. At the age of five, he was formally recognized by His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa and Tai Situpa as the ninth incarnation of the great Thrangu tulku. Because of the Chinese military takeover of Tibet, Thrangu Rinpoche, then twenty-seven, was forced to flee to India in 1959. He was called to Rumtek monastery in Sikkim, where the Karmapa has his seat in exile. Because of his great scholarship, he was given the task of preserving the teachings of the Kagyu lineage. He was appointed by H.H. the Dalai Lama to be the personal tutor for the Seventeenth Karmapa, and he was also the personal tutor of the four principal Karma Kagyu tulkus: Shamar Rinpoche, Situ Rinpoche, Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, and Gyaltsab Rinpoche. Thrangu Rinpoche established the fundamental curriculum of the Karma Kagyu lineage taught at Rumtek and founded numerous monasteries and nunneries, schools for Tibetan children, and medical clinics. He has taught extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States and is the abbot of Gampo Abbey.
摘要
An accessible commentary by a popular and respected Tibetan Buddhist master opens the door for Westerners to Karma Chagme's classic text that integrates two of the great meditation systems of Tibet: Mahamudra and Dzogchen.
This book grows out of an oral teaching that Khenchen Thrangu gave in Crestone, Colorado, on Karma Chagme's text Meaningful to Behold: The Essential Instructions of the Compassionate One on the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen. Thrangu Rinpoche explains in lucid detail the advanced meditation practices of Mahamudra and Dzogchen and also their similarities and differences, including advice on how to safely perform some of the more advanced Dzogchen practices. Many chapters include his answers to questions from the audience, which give the book an intimate feeling.
目次
Editor's Preface 1. Introduction 2. Cultivating Bodhichitta 3. The Generation Stage 4. Shamatha Meditation 5. Vipashyana Meditation 6. The Nature of Mind 7. Mahamudra and Trekchö 8. Meditation and Postmeditation 9. How Signs of Practice Arise 10. Tögal or Leapover Practice 11. The Six Lamps of Tögal Practice 12. Dedication and Aspiration Appendix A: The Correspondence of the Root Text with Chapters in This Book Appendix B: Aspirational Prayer for Mahamudra Appendix C: The Origins of Mahamudra Appendix D: The Fifty-One Mental Factors Appendix E: The Forty-Two Peaceful Deities Appendix F: The Fifty-Eight Wrathful Deities Appendix G: The Three Realms and the Four Formless Meditative Absorptions Notes Glossary Glossary of Tibetan Terms Annotated Bibliography Index E-mail Sign-Up
