Mahamudra and Related Instructions

Roberts, Peter Alan:
Mahāmudrā and related instructions : core teachings of the Kagyü Schools / transl. by Peter Alan Roberts. - Boston, Mass.: Wisdom Publications, 2011. - xv, 764 S. - (The library of Tibetan classics ; 5)
ISBN 978-0-86171-444-5 ; 0-86171-444-X
US$ 59,95
DDC: 294.3438

Beschreibung
The Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism began in the eleventh century with such renowned figures as Marpa and Milarepa, and its seminal meditative traditions are Mahamudra and the six Dharmas of Naropa. Mahamudra teachings focus on the cultivation of profound insight into the nature of the mind, and Mahamudra texts in this volume include a lucid work by the celebrated master Tselé Natsok Rangdröl and works by the twelfth-century master Shang Rinpoche, the great Third Karmapa, the Eighth Tai Situ, and Drukpa Pema Karpo. The volume also contains an inspirational work by Gampopa, the Drigung Kagyü root text The Single Viewpoint, the Sixth Shamarpa's guide to the six Dharmas of Naropa, and finally an overview of tantric practice by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal, author of the famous Moonlight of Mahamudra The texts in this volume were selected by the preeminent scholar of the Kagyü school, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. [Verlagsinformation]

Übersetzer
PETER ALAN ROBERTS was born in Wales and lives in Hollywood, California. He earned a B.A. in Sanskrit and Pali and a Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies from Oxford University (Harris- Manchester College). For more than twenty years he has been working as an interpreter for lamas and as a translator of Tibetan texts. He specializes in the literature of the Kagyü and Nyingma traditions with a focus on tantric practices, and he is the author of The Biographies of Rechungpa. Facebook profile. Interview with Peter Alan Roberts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

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