Mind of Mahamudra: advice from the Kagyu masters

Mahāmudrā is a simple, direct method for looking beyond our thoughts to the very nature of conscious experience. It is said mahāmudrā is not attained not because it is too difficult but because it is too easy, not because it is too far but because it is too close, and not because it is hidden but because it is too evident.

Mind of Mahāmudrā highlights this central meditation practice of the Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism through six texts ranging from the twelfth-century to the seventeenth and including such celebrated authors as Lama Shang and the Third Karmapa. Eminent scholar Peter Alan Roberts draws on his thirty-plus years of experience of translating for Tibetan lamas to illuminate these benchmark translations.

General Editor’s Preface
Translator’s Introduction

1. The Unrivaled Instructions of Shang Rinpoché: The Preliminaries and Main Practice of the Great Meditation of Mahāmudrā
Shönu Lha
2. The Ultimate Supreme Path of the Mahāmudrā
Lama Shang
3. A Record of Mahāmudrā Instructions
Drukchen Pema Karpo
4. Instructions for the Mahāmudrā Innate Union
Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé
5. Prayer for the Definitive Meaning, the Mahāmudrā
Karmapa Rangjung Dorjé
6. The Bright Torch: The Perfect Illumination of the True Meaning of the Mahāmudrā, the Essence of All the Dharma
Tselé Natsok Rangdröl