Mahamudra

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

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.”

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.

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.

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