Mahamudra
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DARING STEPS: Traversing the Path of the Buddha by Ringu Tulku, edited and translated by Rosemarie Fuchs Formerly Daring Steps Toward Fearlessness 224 pp. #DAST2E - list price $ 16.95 Our Price $11.86 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Daring Steps stands out among the multitude of books on Tibetan Buddhism as being a uniquely accessible overview of the Buddhist path that encompasses all three yanas, or traditional Buddhist spiritual paths. Ringu Tulku—renowned for both his insight and approachable style—consistently brings the teachings back to the reader's own experience as he reveals the vital role of each path in the attainment of genuine realization. More ... | |
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THE EIGHTH SITUPA ON THE THIRD KARMAPA'S MAHAMUDRA PRAYER Translated by Lama Sherab Dorje 208 pages, 1 drawing, 6" x 9", revised edition. #EISION - list price $ 15.95 Our Price $11.16 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Here, in one compact volume, are all of the stages of instruction on the path of mahamudra. Included are concise and complete formal instructions on the ground, path and fruition of this penetrating practice. This vast and profound commentary originates with the Eighth Situpa, a remarkable scholar and practitioner who is considered the most accomplished of all the Situ emanations. More ... | |
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GARLAND OF MAHAMUDRA PRACTICES by Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche, trans. & ed. by Katherine Rogers 144 pp. #GAMAPR - list price $ 16.95 Our Price $11.86 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion This text is a manual of practical instructions for students who are or would like to practice the path of Mahamudra in meditation. Mahamudra refers to a path to enlightenment taught by the Buddha and transmitted through the spiritual lineage of Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa and Milarepa. Gampopa, a disciple of Milarepa who lived in the eleventh century, brought together these teachings of the Buddha into one five-fold path consisting of an enlightened motivation, deity yoga, guru yoga, mahamudra and proper dedication, to which his main disciple, Pakmo Druba, gave the name "The Profound Five-Fold Path of Mahamudra". More ... | |
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THE GELUG/KAGYU TRADITION OF MAHAMUDRA by H. H. the Dalai Lama and Alexander Berzin. 400 pp., paper. #GEKATR - list price $ 24.95 Our Price $17.46 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Mahamudra, the great sealing nature, refers to systems of meditation on both the conventional and ultimate natures of the mind. These have been transmitted through the Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Within the Gelug, mahamudra teachings occur in a combined Gelug/Kagyu tradition, exemplified in the First Panchen Lama's Root Text for the Precious Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra. The work presented here contains two brilliant commentaries by the Dalai Lama. The first is a teaching based directly on the First Panchen Lama's root text. In the second, His Holiness bases his discussion on the First Panchen Lama's own commentary to this text. The book opens with an overview of mahamudra by Alexander Berzin that discusses the relation of mind, appearances and reality and offers practical techniques for overcoming problems of excessive worry, anxiety and disturbing thought. More ... | |
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IN PRAISE OF DHARMADHATU by Nagarjuna, commentary by the Third Karmapa, translated and introduced by Karl Brunnhölzl Cloth. 432 pp. #INPRDH - list price $ 29.95 Our Price $20.96 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Nagarjuna is famous in the West for his works on Madhyamaka, but his poetic "collection of praises"—headed by "In Praise of Dharmadhatu"—is largely unknown. This book explores the scope, contents, and significance of Nagarjuna's scriptural legacy in India and Tibet, primarily focusing on the title work. The translation of Nagarjuna's hymn to buddha nature—here called dharmadhatu—shows how buddha nature is temporarily obscured by adventitious stains in ordinary sentient beings, gradually uncovered through the path of bodhisattvas, and finally revealed in full bloom as buddhahood. These themes are explored at a deeper level through a Buddhist "history" of mind's luminous nature and a translation of the text's earliest and most extensive commentary by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339), supplemented by relevant excerpts from all other available commentaries. More ... | |
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MACHIG LABDRON AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF CHOD by Jerome Edou 244 pp. #MALA - list price $ 19.95 Our Price $13.96 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Machig Labdron is popularly considered to be both a dakini and a deity, an emanation of Yum Chenmo or Prajnaparamita, the embodiment of the wisdom of the buddhas. Historically, this Tibetan woman, a contemporary of Milarepa, was an adept, an outstanding teacher, a mother and a founder of a unique transmission lineage known as the Chod of Mahamudra. More ... | |
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MACHIK'S COMPLETE EXPLANATION: Clarifying the Meaning of Chod trans. & ed. by Sarah Harding. A Tsadra Foundation Series book. 366 pp., cloth edition. #MACOEX - list price $ 29.95 Our Price $20.96 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Machik's Complete Explanation is the most famous book of the teachings of Machik Labdron, the great female saint and yogini of 11-12th century Tibet, now finally translated in its entirety into English. 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. Machik's unique feminine approach was 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. More ... | |
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MIND BEYOND DEATH by The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Cloth. 348 pp. 4-page color insert. #MIBEDE - list price $ 25.95 Our Price $18.16 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion An indispensable guidebook through the journey of life and death, Mind Beyond Death weaves a synthesis of wisdom remarkable in its scope. With warm informality and profound understanding of the Western mind, The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche makes the mysterious Tibetan teachings on the bardos—the intervals of life, death, and beyond—completely available to the modern reader. More ... | |
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by The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche 348 pages, 4-page color insert, new in paper. (See description above.) #MIBEDP - list price $ 18.95 Our Price $13.27 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion | |
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NAKED AWARENESS: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen by Karma Chagme, comm. by Gyatrul Rinpoche, trans. by B. Alan Wallace, ed. by Lindy Steele & B. Alan Wallace 322 pp. #NAAW - list price $ 24.95 Our Price $17.46 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion "The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen by the 17th century adept Karma Chagme, is widely regarded as an unusually elegant synthesis of the leading Tibetan approaches to Buddhist meditation. Students and practitioners of meditation will be especially grateful to the Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche and his translator B. Alan Wallace for these ample and lucid elaborations of these instructions as they are traditionally taught."-- Matthew Kapstein, author More ... | |
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THE NINTH KARMAPA'S OCEAN OF DEFINITIVE MEANING by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche; edited, introduced and annotated by Lama Tashi Namgyal 152 pp., second edition. #NIKA2N - list price $ 16.95 Our Price $11.86 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion The Ocean of Definitive Meaning by the Ninth Karmapa (1556-1603) is the most profound and famous text on Mahamudra ever written and is of vital importance in the living Kagyu tradition. It offers a detailed, uniquely comprehensive presentation of instruction on both the view and the practice. In the teachings contained in this book, Thrangu Rinpoche has distilled the essence of the Ninth Karmapa's massive text into manageable proportions and has given pointed guidance on the implementation of its instruction. More ... | |
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POINTING OUT THE DHARMAKAYA by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, foreword by the Dalai Lama, intro. by Lama Tashi Namgyal Pre-order Now--Available March 2012. 182 pp., paper. This is a 2nd edition. #POOU2E - list price $ 19.95 Our Price $13.96 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion At the heart of successful Mahamudra practice is the ability to understand the nature of mind. The Ninth Karmapa, Wangchuk Dorje (1556-1603), the acknowledged master of this approach, wrote three definitive texts on Mahamudra; Pointing Out the Dharmakaya is the shortest and most practical of the three. Brilliant explanations by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche make this text vividly relevant for contemporary Western practitioners. For those committed to ascertaining the mind’s true nature, there is no more systematic or comprehensive approach than can be found in this extraordinary set of instructions. More ... | |
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THE PRACTICE OF MAHAMUDRA by Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, trans. by Robert Clark, ed. by Ani K. Trinlay Chödron 136 pp., Second Edition. #PRMA2 - list price $ 15.95 Our Price $11.16 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion Mahamudra, the highest level of teaching within Tibetan Buddhism, rewards study and practice with the realization of the very nature of mind itself. There is not a single experience which is not subsumed within the realizations of Mahamudra. More ... | |
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A SPACIOUS PATH TO FREEDOM: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra and Atiyoga by Karma Chagme, commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche, trans. by B. Alan Wallace Paper, 240 pp., 1 b&w photo. #SPPAF2 - list price $ 18.95 Our Price $13.27 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion This manual of Tibetan meditation simply and thoroughly presents the profound Dzogchen and Mahamudra systems of practice. More ... | |
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THE THIRD KARMAPA'S MAHAMUDRA PRAYER by the XII Khentin Tai Situpa Rinpoche, trans. & ed. by Rosemarie Fuchs 160 pp. #THKAMA - list price $ 14.95 Our Price $10.46 (you save 30%) Published by Snow Lion The Mahamudra prayer by the Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, is a short yet thorough and profound text which presents all the essential points of Mahamudra teaching in terms of view, practice and fruition. It is a classic that, especially in the tradition of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, has been and is widely used whenever a disciple is given a first introduction into Mahamudra. More ... | |
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CLOUDLESS SKY: The Mahamudra Path of the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyu School by Jamgon Kongtrul 152 pp. #CLSK - $ 17.00 This book opens the way to a deeper knowledge of Mahamudra, a Buddhist system of meditation on the nature of mind. In providing a detailed commentary on the Vajra Song of the first Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-1899), the author elucidates the stages of ground, path, and fruition according to this system. More ... | |
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A DIRECT PATH TO THE BUDDHA WITHIN: Go Lotsawa's Mahamudra Interpretation of the Ratnagotravibhaga by Klaus-Dieter Mathes 608 pp. #DIPABU - list price $ 32.95 Our Price $23.07 (you save 30%) A thoughtful exploration of a renowned Buddhist master’s teachings on the key concept of Buddha-nature.The major Indian treatise on Buddha nature is the Ratnagotravibhaga, also known as the Uttaratantra, and it is this core text that Klaus-Dieter Mathes focuses on in this book. More ... | |
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THE DORJE CHANG THUNGMA composed by Benkar Jampal Zangpo, comm. by Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa 130pp., 1 color picture, 2 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w pictures. #DOCHTH - $ 24.95 This edition of The Dorje Chang Thungma includes Benkar Jampal Zangpo's famous prayer of Mahamudra realization, in both Tibetan script and English translations, and line-by-line explanations of the prayer's meaning, by Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa. Tai Situpa's explanations of the text are clear and easy to understand; he offers numerous explanations and examples, which add great depth and color to the text. The second half of the book also includes teachings on the guru-disciple relationship, which covers the importance of a guru, four types of guru, the qualities of a guru, and an enlightening question and answer session. More ... | |
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ESSENTIALS OF MAHAMUDRA: Looking Directly at the Mind by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche 288 pp. #ESMA - $ 16.95 Written by the tutor to H.H. the Karmapa, this clear book details the whys as well as the hows of Mahamudra, a direct and powerful practice that can be done in conjunction with a busy work life. More ... | |