| #892519 in Books | 2000-03-27 | 2000-03-27 | Original language:Tibetan | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x.88 x6.01l,1.09 | File type: PDF | 328 pages||44 of 45 people found the following review helpful.| 1st part of a definitive text|By Neal J. Pollock|This book is the initial portion of Gyatrul Rinpoche's commentary on a portion of Karma Chagme's 17th century text, "The Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen." The 2nd volume is called, "A Spacious Path to Freedom." A related text (all 3 are translated by B. Alan Wallace) is entitled, "Natural Liberation" and is attributed to Padm|From the Back Cover|Mahamudra and Dzogchen are the two highest-level practices of Tibetan Buddhism. They are systems which strip away much of the cultural elaborations, which often are not amenable to Westerners and present the pith of Tibetan spirituality. Beca
In this classic seventeenth-century presentation of the union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen, Karma Chagmé, one of the great teachers of both these lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, begins with an overview of the spirit of awakening and the nature of actions and their ethical consequences. Next, drawing from his enormous erudition and profound experience, Chagmé gives exceptionally lucid instructions on the two phases of Dzogchen practice—the "breakthroug...
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