Mahamudra

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

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).

The Third Karmapa’s verse text, traditionally memorized and recited by Karma Kagyu practitioners, consists of a series of prayers for gaining the circumstances conducive for success on each step of mahamudra meditation on the nature of the mind.

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.

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.

Gampopa’s way of combining the Kadampa and mahamudra teachings became the foundation for the Kagyu lineages that derived from him.

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.

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

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.