Tilopa's Mahamudra Upadesha
Subtitle: the Gangama instructions with commentary
By: Sangyes Nyenpa ; translated by David Molk
Contributors: Molk, David, 1953- translator
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781559394260
Subjects: Meditation; Tantric Buddhism
Work titles: Phyag chen gangamaʼi ʼgrel pa dam paʼi źal gyi man ṅag
Description: An explanation of the Indian Mahasiddha Tilopa's renowned Gangama Mahamudra meditation instructions, given in a traditional Tibetan context by one of its lineage's most accomplished contemporary masters. These ancient instructions, in the form of a "song of realization," are the original source for all Mahamudra lineages of meditation. All lineages of Mahamudra meditation have their source in a verse teaching--a "song of realization"--Sung by the Mahasiddha Tilopa to his disciple Naropa on the banks of the Ganges River more than a thousand years ago. Since that time the meaning of the instructions has been passed directly from master to disciple in a continuous transmission lineage that exists unbroken to this day. Mahamudra meditation, while highly advanced, is yet simple and practical because what is identified and meditated upon is the very essence of one's own mind. This book offers the reader a window into the oral transmission of these instructions, given in a traditional Tibetan context by one of the Kagyu lineage's most learned and accomplished contemporary masters. --Provided by publisher.
Notes: The oral instruction of Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche given to the monks and nuns of Benchen Monastery, Pharping, Kathmandu, Nepal in 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239).

Translated from the Tibetan.
Table of contents: title: Blessing by His Holiness the seventeenth Karmapa; title: Preface by Sangyes Nyenpa Rinpoche; title: Translator's introduction by David Molk; title: The Gangama Mahamudra of Tilopa: The root text in Tibetan and English; title: A Discovery of sacred secrets on the banks of the Ganges: A commentary to Tilopa's Gangama Mahamudra Instructions; title: Introduction to the commentary; title: The meaning of the name; title: Marpa the translator's homage; title: The promise to impart the essence instructions; title: Beginning the actual instructions: Mahamudra transcends the sphere of terms and concepts; title: Meditation within the unfabricated state; title: How to settle in thed original state without modification; title: How the movement of thought is purified on the spot; title: The essential mode of existence is not something or nothing; title: Samsaric phenomena do not stain the essence of the mind; title: Expanding upon that meaning; title: Showing how to practice with body, speech, and mind; title: The essential meaning cannot be seen through view, meditation, and action the make assertions.