Mahamudra

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.

Dr. Berzin explains Karma Kagyu mahamudra meditation as presented in the Ninth Karmapa's seminal text.

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.

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

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

Mahamudra is a system of meditation that concerns the two natures of mental activity: what it is and how it exists. As with most topics in Buddhism, it is helpful to understand it in terms of the four noble truths.

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

Mahamudra texts contain special Tibetan terminology not found in many dictionaries. Dr. Berzin offers English translations of many of them, based on explanations by Beru Khyentse Rinpoche.

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