Lta ba mdor bsdus pa

ལྟ་བ་མདོར་བསྡུས་པ།

lta ba mdor bsdus pa

*Dṛṣṭisaṁkṣipta

A Brief Account of the View

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A condensed explanation of the view of Mahāmudrā presented in verse. It is cataloged as an anonymous composition in the Derge Tengyur, however the closing line of the text attributes it to Nāropa, with the customary repetition of the title appearing as rje na ro pa'i lta ba mdor bsdus pa.

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• Thrangu Rinpoche. Songs of Naropa: Commentaries on Songs of Realization. Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang. Edited by Marcia Binder Schmidt with Kerry Moran. Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1997. https://archive.org/details/songsofnaropakhenchenthrangurinpochemarciabinderschmidtkerrymoran_755_F/mode/2up.

Recensions of This Text

Nāropa, attributed. *Dṛṣṭisaṁkṣipta. (A Brief Account of the View). Recension information:

Tibetan	ལྟ་བ་མདོར་བསྡུས་པ།, (Lta ba mdor bsdus pa). AIBS Link: http://databases.aibs.columbia.edu/index.php?id=aa86622f8f5a092a71b2996f105c687f&enc=tibetan_script_title&coll=tengyur. Derge 2304, rgyud, zhi 244a5-245b3 (vol. 52), translated by Mar pa chos kyi blo gros.

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Text exists in	~ Tibetan
Canonical Genre	~ Tengyur · Tantra · rgyud · rgyud 'grel

Mahāmudrā - 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. Skt. महामुद्रा Tib. ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།

tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt. तन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད། Ch. 密宗