Practice of Mahamudra

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.

On his first tour of the United States, H.H. Chetsang Rinpoche gave detailed instructions in Mahamudra methods. He carefully explained each of the five stages of Mahamudra and taught its main meditational practices. He also gave precise instructions on posture and breathing for meditation and answered many common questions using the teachings of Tilopa and Gampopa to illustrate his various points.

PRAISE
"...the clearest presentation of Mahamudra meditation practice available in English."
—Wisconsin Bookwatch

His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche is the thirty-seventh Drikung Kyabgon, head of the Drikung Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhism. He has worked tirelessly to renew and spread its scholarly and meditative traditions in many countries, including the United States. This is his first and only book in English. He lives at the seat of the Drikung Kagyu order in Dehra Dun, India.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Preliminaries
2. The Actual Practice
3. Mahamudra: What Is It?
4. Questions and Answers I
5. Channeling the Breath
6. Body Posture
7. Shamatha: Stabilizing the Mind
8. Vipashyana:Analyzing the Nature of Mind
9. Meditation Exercisesand Instructions
10. Questions and Answers II
11. The Attainment of Non-attainment
12. Tilopa's Pith Instructions
13. Dharma Lord Gampopa's Advice
14. Questions and Answers ill
15. Vajrasattva Purification Meditation
16. Conclusion

A BriefBiography of His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche
Long Life Prayer
Suggested Further Reading