The Samadhirajasutra and ́Sutra Mahamudrá: a critical edition and translation of verses 1–118 from chapter 32 of the Samadhirajasutra / Paul Thomas -- The seven Siddhi texts (Grub pa sde bdun): remarks on the corpus and its employment in Sa skya-Bka’ brgyud Mahamudra polemical literature / Adam C. Krug -- Mahamudra and Samayamudra in the Dunhuang documents and beyond / Jacob P. Dalton -- A neglected Bka’ brgyud lineage: the Rngog from Gzhung and the Rngog pa Bka’ brgyud transmission / Cecile Ducher -- ’Jig rten gsum mgon’s Dgongs gcig on the relation between Mahamudra and the six yogas of Naropa / Jan-Ulrich Sobisch -- The definitive meaning of Mahamudra according to the Kalacakra Tradition of Yu mo Mi bskyod rdo rje’s Phyag chen gsal sgron / Casey A. Kemp -- Mahamudra as revelatory of the key-point of the third Dharmacakra according to the sixty verses on Mahamudra by Zhwa dmar Chos grags ye shes / Martina Draszczyk -- Mi bskyod rdo rje on the question of what remains (lhag ma, avasisĐtĐa) / David Higgins -- Maitripa’s Amanasikara-Based Mahamudra in the works of the eighth Karma pa Mi bskyod rdo rje / Klaus-Dieter Mathes -- Assimilating the great seal: the Dge lugs pa-ization of the dge ldan bka ’brgyud tradition of Mahamudra / Roger R. Jackson.
Summary:
"Mahamudra in India and Tibet presents cutting-edge research by European and North American scholars on the Indian origins and Tibetan interpretations of one of the most popular and influential of all Tibetan meditation traditions, Mahamudra, or the great seal. The contributions shed fresh light on important areas of Mahamudra studies, exploring the Great Seal's place in the Mahayana Samadhirajasutra, the Indian tantric Seven Siddhi Texts, Dunhuang Yogatantra texts, Mar pa's Rngog lineage, and the Dgongs gcig literature of the 'Bri gung, as well as in the works of Yu mo Mi bskyod rdo rje, the Fourth Zhwa dmar pa Chos grags ye shes, the Eighth Karma pa Mi-bskyod rdo rje, and various Dge lugs masters of the 17th-18th centuries. Contributors are: Jacob Dalton, Martina Draszczyk, Cecile Ducher, David Higgins, Roger R. Jackson, Casey Kemp, Adam Krug, Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, and Paul Thomas"-- Provided by publisher.
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