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ESSENTIALS OF MAHAMUDRA: Looking Directly at the Mindby Khenchen Thrangu RinpocheWritten 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. "Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche [was] one of the foremost mahamudra teachers. 'It is peaceful and gentle,' he writes in Essentials of Mahamudra. The book is based on Tashi Namgyal's 'Moonlight of Mahamudra,' a sixteenth-century text that lays out the rationale behind the mahamudra practices, along with detailed instructions, including how to continue practicing off the cushion. Essentials of Mahamudra contains answers to students' questions - helpful to practitioners at any level."--Tricycle "Makes the practice of mahamudra, one of the most advanced forms of meditation, easily acessible to Westerners' everyday lives. A wonderful way of bringing us to the path."-- Mandala: A Tibetan Buddhist Journal "Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is one of the few remaining living Tibetan Buddhist teachers who was born in a free Tibet. Between 1990 and 1995, he conducted five retreats at Big Bear Lake, California. His talks there have been edited into Essentials of Mahamudra. During these talks, Rinpoche presented a comprehensive introduction to the mahamudra path. Similar to the practice of Dzogchen, mahamudra is a direct and powerful practice. There are two central meditative practices: peaceful abiding, shamatha, and insight, vipashyana. This work discusses these two corrollary meditative approaches in great detail, moving back and forth between the two. As always, Rinpoche's instructions are beautifully [clear]."-- Ashe Journal "A comprehensive overview. Invaluable."-- Shambhala Sun "In an accessible commentary on Tashi Namgyal's 'Moonlight of Mahamudra,' this well-regarded tutor to the seventeenth Karmapa presents the Mahamudra path largely in terms of the familiar samatha and vipassana meditations common to [many] Buddhists. The exploration of how these terms are redefined in this context is a major strength, as is the exceptionally clear prose in which it appears. The result is a broad yet detailed and practical guide to Mahamudra meditation, its obstacles, and their remedies. It is fortified by the thought of Gampopa and other major figures of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, in addition to useful question-and-answer sections at the end of each chapter. Because of its remarkable balance of philosophical rigor and experiential instruction in meditation, this text should be useful to students of various education-levels and orientations."-- Altar magazine . | |
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