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...

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

This commentary by Dr. Berzin explains how to conduct mahamudra meditation on the conventional and deepest natures of the mind.

The Dalai Lama explains, in great depth, the essential points of the Fourth Panchen Lama’s own commentary elaborating his root text for the Gelug/Kagyu tradition of mahamudra.

The Dalai Lama’s deep, line-by-line explanation of this root text for mahamudra meditation reveals its subtler points.

A commentary by Serkong Rinpoche focusing on mahamudra as a meditation on the mind’s void nature.

The Ninth Karmapa presents a detailed, step-by-step explanation of the Karma Kagyu practice of mahamudra meditation on the nature of the mind.

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