Mahamudra: The Moonlight Quintessence of Mind and Meditation Rev. 2nd Ed.

Mahamudra Is The First English Translation Of A Major Tibetan Buddhist Presentation Of The Theory And Practice Of Meditation-a Manual Detailing The Various Stages And Practices For Training The Advanced Student. The Original Tibetan Text Of Nearly 800 Pages Was Composed By Takpo Tashi Namgyal (1512-1587), A Great Lama And A Scholar Of The Kagyu Sect Of Tibetan Buddhism. His Text Is So Vast And Thorough In Scope That It Is Still The Primary Source Used By Living Tibetan Meditation Masters In Instructing Their Disciples. The First Major Text Representing The Meditational Methods Of Both Mahayana And Vajrayana Buddhism To Appear In English, Mahamudra Is An Invaluable Guide For Advanced Students, Scholars, And Buddhist Practitioners. Mahamudra Is The First English Translation Of A Major Tibetan Buddhist Presentation Of The Theory And Practice Of Meditation-a Manual Detailing The Various Stages And Practices For Training The Advanced Student. The Original Tibetan Text Of Student. The Original Tibetan Text Of Nearly 800 Pages Was Composed By Takpo Tashi Namgyal (1512-1587) A Great Lama And A Scholar Of The Kagyu Sect Of Tibetan Buddhism. The First Major Text Representing The Meditational Methods Of Both Mahayana And Vajrayana Buddhism To Appear In English. Mahamudra Is An Invaluable Guide For Advanced Students, Scholars, And Buddhist Practitionaers. Front Cover......Page 1 Back Cover......Page 2 Contents......Page 4 Foreword by Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche......Page 14 Preface......Page 16 Translator's Introduction......Page 20 Reader's Key to the Riches of Mahamudra......Page 42 Introduction......Page 64 Book One: A Concise Elucidation of the Common System of Tranquil Equipoise......Page 74 1. The Ordinary Meditation of Tranquility and Insight......Page 78 2. The Stages of Tranquility and Insight, Part I: Tranquility......Page 100 3. The Stages of Tranquility and Insight, Part II: Insight......Page 112 4. The Stages of Tranquility and Insight, Part III: Clearing Doubts Regarding the Methods for Maintaining the Vision of Reality and Meditative Absorrption......Page 131 Book Two: An Extensive Elucidation of Mahamudra, the Uncommon Meditation......Page 150 Part I: Preliminary Exposition......Page 152 1. Exposition Engendering Confidence......Page 153 2. Preparatory Practices......Page 182 Part II: The Main Meditation of Mahamudra......Page 204 3. Guiding Meditators on the Path: Tranquility......Page 207 4. Guiding Meditators on the Path: Insight......Page 236 5. The Stages of Virtuous Practice......Page 274 6. Consolidation of Experience in Meditation: How to Maintain Absorption and Postabsorption......Page 312 7. Consolidation of Experience in Meditation: How to Get Rid of Meditative Deviation......Page 354 8. Consolidation of Experience in Meditation: How to Determine the Mind as Nonarising [Emptiness] and Enhance Meditation......Page 375 9. The Resultant Dawning of Realization......Page 411 Dedication......Page 470 Colophon......Page 473 Translator's Notes......Page 476 Bibliography......Page 524 Index of Quotations......Page 536 Index to Kagyur and Tangyur of Quotations in Mahamudra Text......Page 537