Mahāmudrā
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Mahāmudrā
Basic Meaning
Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā.
| Term Variations | |
|---|---|
| Key Term | Mahāmudrā |
| Topic Variation | Mahāmudrā |
| Tibetan | ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ། ( Chagya chenpo) |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | phyag rgya chen po ( Chagya chenpo) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | महामुद्रा |
| Romanized Sanskrit | mahāmudrā |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | Great Seal |
| Richard Barron's English Term | supreme seal |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | great seal |
| Ives Waldo's English Term | great seal |
| Term Information | |
| Source Language | Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning | Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā. |
| Related Terms | mudrā, Kagyu |
| Related Topic Pages | Https://kuenselonline.com/chagchen-the-great-seal-2/ |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Definitions | |
| Tshig mdzod Chen mo | ༡) འབྲས་བུ་མཐར་ཐུག་གམ་མཆོག་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་སྟེ་མཆོག་ཏུ་མི་འགྱུར་བའི་བདེ་བ་དང་། དེ་ལ་རྒྱས་འདེབས་པའི་རྣམ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་པའི་གཟུགས་སྐད་ཅིག་དང་པོར་ཐོབ་པ་དེ་ལས་བྲི་བ་དང་གང་བ་མེད་པར་ཡེ་ཇི་བཞིན་པའི་ངོ་བོ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ནམ་མཁའི་ཇི་སྲིད་པ་དེ་སྲིད་དུ་རྟག་ཏུ་གནས་ཤིང་གཞར་ཡང་དེ་ལས་འདར་མི་སྤྱོད་པ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཡིན་ལ། སྤོང་བ་དང་རྟོགས་པ་དང་སེམས་ཏེ་ཆེན་པོ་གསུམ་དང་ལྡན་པས་ན་ཆེན་པོ་སྟེ་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་ཞེས་བྱའོ།། ༢) སྐུ་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཏེ། ཀུན་གཞིའི་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པའི་འཁྲུལ་བ་གློ་བུར་བ་བསལ་ནས་རང་བཞིན་མེ་ལོང་ལྟ་བུའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་མངོན་དུ་བྱ་བ་སྟེ།་རྣལ་བྱོར་རྒྱུད་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་བཞིའི་ཡ་གྱལ་ཞིག |
