MAHAMUDRA: Eliminating the Darkness of Ignorance--CD, by Thrangu Rinpoche

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MAHAMUDRA: Eliminating the Darkness of Ignorance--CD

by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

Mahamudra: Eliminating the Darkness of Ignorance is a text by the Ninth Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje, presenting a complete teaching on the practice of Mahamudra. Based on this text, Thrangu Rinpoche provides profound and accessible teachings on Mahamudra practice beginning with the uncommon and common preliminaries as well as the four extraordinary preliminaries specific to Mahamudra practice (causal condition, dominant condition, focal condition and immediate condition). Rinpoche then taught Mahamudra practices of tranquility including the posture of body and mind, tranquility meditation resting on each of the five sense objects, eliminating dullness and agitation, and unsupported meditation. Rinpoche continued by teaching Mahamudra practices of vipashyana (insight), including looking at and recognizing the mind at rest, the mind in motion, appearances and mind, and the difference between or sameness of moving and resting mind. These talks conclude with teachings on eliminating obstacles and on enhancement practices.

Because Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche spoke in Tibetan for extended periods, his monologues have been wonderfully edited to provide a "Mainly English" format. (The voice mostly heard on the CD is that of the translator, David Karma Choephel.) This set is a compilation of 14 talks given in Topsham, Maine in September of 2006. Meditation silences and closing chants have been shortened or eliminated in order to fit these teachings on 11 CDs.

Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is a renowned Tibetan Buddhist master known for his deep compassion and the clarity of his teachings. He was selected by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to serve as the principal tutor to His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje. Thrangu Rinpoche is a full holder and teacher of the Kagyu Vajrayana lineages. He founded the Namo Buddha retreat center in Nepal, has established two shedras (monastic universities) in Nepal and India, and serves as Abbot of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. He built Tara Abbey, where nuns receive a full dharma education qualifying them to become khenpos or teachers. Rinpoche teaches extensively throughout Asia, Europe, Canada and the United States.