Nges don phyag rgya chen po'i smon lam

ངེས་དོན་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་སྨོན་ལམ།

nges don phyag rgya chen po'i smon lam

Aspiration Prayer of the Definitive Meaning of Mahāmudrā

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The Mahamudra Prayer by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje is a short yet thorough and profound text which presents all the essential points of Mahamudra teaching in terms of view, practice, and fruition. It is a classic that, especially in the tradition of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, has been and is widely used whenever a disciple is given a first introduction into Mahamudra. The Third Karmapa shows how to recognize our ultimate potential as a buddha. (Source: Shambhala Publications)

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Nges don phyag rgya chen po'i smon lam. (Aspiration Prayer of the Definitive Meaning of Mahāmudrā). Recension information:
Tibetan	Karmapa, 3rd, (Rang byung rdo rje). ངེས་དོན་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་སྨོན་ལམ།, (Nges don phyag rgya chen po'i smon lam). In KaM tshang chos spyod sogs kha ton gces btus. Delhi: Sherab Gyaltsen, 2001: 312-318. In Bka' brgyud zhal 'don phyogs bsgrigs. Zhang kang: Zhang kang then mA dpe skrun khang, 2001: 205-210. In Nges don phyag rgya chen po'i smon lam dang sa bcad zur bkol blo gsar 'jug bde. Rdo rje gdan: Bka' brgyud sang+g+ha smon lam chen mo, 2004: 1-8. In Gsung 'bum/_rang byung rdo rje, Vol. 11: 617-622. Zi ling: Mtshur phu mkhan po lo yag bkra shis, 2006. Also see Phyag chen smon lam gyi 'grel pa kun gyis go bde ba, Benchen Publications, 2008. Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche Teachings on the Third Karmapa's Mahamudra Prayer.

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