Mahamudra

Approaching the Challenge of Taming the Mind The root for all actual attainments of good qualities is the decisive realization of renunciation, bodhichitta and a correct view of reality. At our present level, it may be difficult to have the full determination to be free that...

Realizing the Voidness of Mind Itself Once we have gained conviction in the lack of true and inherent identity on the basis of our own "self," we turn to the basis of other persons or individuals and then to the massive network of all other phenomena. We examine voidness...

This bibliography was originally published as an appendix to H. H. the Dalai Lama and Berzin, Alexander. The Gelug/Kagyü Tradition of Mahamudra. Ithaca, Snow Lion, 1997, and published here in the preceding items on this website in individual parts.  Tibetan and Sanskrit Titles...

Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey explains the Fourth Panchen Lama’s text that forms the basis for the Gelug/Kagyu tradition of mahamudra meditation on the nature of the mind.

A detailed line-by-line commentary on the shorter of the Ninth Karmapa’s two texts on the Karma Kagyu tradition of mahamudra meditation.

An introduction to the practice of mahamudra in the Gelug and Karma Kagyu traditions.

An explanation of the terse and profound verses of the Third Karmapa’s “Mahamudra Prayer.”

Explore the graded path of practice as found in the Drugpa Kagyu tradition, written by the great Tibetan master of the 16th century, Pema Karpo.

Mahamudra is a sophisticated Buddhist system of meditation and practice on the nature of the mind.

The Fourth Panchen Lama presents the sutra method of mahamudra meditation for gaining shamatha on the conventional nature of the mind and then joined shamatha and vipashyana on the mind’s deepest nature, its voidness (emptiness).