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• Prefacexv
• Permissions xxiii
• Technical Notexxv
• Introduction1
  • A Summary of the Book (10)

• Part 1. The Background to Geluk Mahāmudrā
  • 1. Mahāmudrā in India: Hindus and Buddhists, Sūtras and Tantras17
    • Seals and Great Seals in Hindu Traditions (18)
    • Seals and Great Seals in Sūtras-Based Buddhism (23)
    • Tantric Buddhism (25)
    • Mahāmudrā in the "Lower" Buddhist Tantras (30)
    • Mahāmudrā in the Mahāyoga and Yoginī Tantras (34)
  • 2. Mahāmudrā in India: The Mahāsiddhas41
    • The Seven Attainment Texts (42)
    • Saraha: The Essential Trilogy and Beyond (44)
    • Śavaripa and Virūpa (48)
    • Tilopa and Nāropa (51)
    • Maitrīpa and the Practice of Nonmentation (56)
    • A Perfection Vehicle Mahāmudrā? (61)
  • 3. Mahāmudrā in Some Tibetan Renaissance Schools65
    • Transmitting Mahāmudrā to Tibet (63)
    • Atiśa and the Kadam (68)
    • Shiché and Chö (73)
    • Shangpa Kagyü (76)
    • Sakya (78)
    • Nyingma (79)
  • 4. Mahāmudrā in Early Marpa Kagyü83
    • Marpa and Milarepa (83)
    • Rechungpa and Gampopa (87)
    • Gampopa's Successors (92)
    • Shang Rinpoché and the Tsalpa Kagyü (93)
    • Phakmo Drupa Kagyü and Drigung Kagyü (93)
    • Drukpa Kagyü (98)
    • Early Karma Kagyü (101)
  • 5. Mahāmudrā in Later Marpa Kagyü105
    • Sakya Paṇḍita's Critique of Kagyü Mahāmudrā (105)
    • The Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorjé (107)
    • Great Madhyamaka, Shentong, and the Jonang Tradition (109)
    • The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (111)
    • Sixteenth-Century Scholasticism (117)
    • Karma Trinlepa and Pawo Tsuklak Trengwa (117)
    • The Eighth Karmapa and Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (119)
    • Pema Karpo (122)
    • The Ninth Karmapa (124)
    • The State of Kagyü Discourse in 1600 (126)
    • The Kagyü-Geluk Conflict (128)

• Part 2. Early Geluk Mahāmudrā
  • 6. Tsongkhapa, the Geluk, and Mahāmudrā133
    • Tsongkhapa's Life and Works (134)
    • Tsongkhapa's Secret Teachings (143)
    • From Tsongkhapa to Paṇchen Chögyen, and Back Again (147)
    • Tsongkhapa and Mahāmudrā: A Closer Took (149)
    • Mahāmudrā in Tsongkhapa's Tantric Writings (150)
    • Tsongkhapa's Views of His Contemporaries' Meditation Practices (153)
    • Did Tsongkhapa Teach His Own Mahāmudrā System? (159)
  • 7. From Tsongkhapa to Panchen Chögyen: Khedrup Jé and the Main Line of
        the Hearing Transmission165
    • Khedrup Jé (166)
    • Tokden Jampal Gyatso (170)
    • Baso Chökyi Gyaltsen (171)
    • Chökyi Dorjé (172)
    • The Great Ensapa (174)
    • Khedrup Sangyé Yeshé (176)
  • 8. From Tsongkhapa to Panchen Chögyen: Masters Outside the Main Line
        of the Hearing Transmission179
    • Gendun Drup, the First Dalai Lama (179)
    • Khedrup Norsang Gyatso (181)
    • Gendun Gyatso, the Second Dalai Lama (184)
    • Paṇchen Sönam Drakpa (187)
    • Sönam Gyatso, the Third Dalai Lama (193)
    • Khöntön Paljor Lhundrup (195)
  • 9. Paṇchen Chögyen in Focus199
    • Paṇchen Chögyen's Life and Works (199)
    • Highway of the Conquerors (202)
    • Lamp So Bright (206)
    • Mahāmudrā Lineage Prayer (215)
    • Like a Treasure Inventory (216)
    • Offering to the Guru (218)
    • Paṇchen Chögyen's Spiritual Songs (226)
    • Why Mahāmudrā? (235)

• Part 3. Later Geluk Mahāmudrā
  • 10. Paṇchen Chögyen's Successors241
    • The Fifth Dalai Lama (243)
    • Shar Kalden Gyatso (245)
    • Jamyang Shepa (252)
    • Kalsang Gyatso, The Seventh Dalai Lama (254)
  • 11. Yeshé Gyaltsen257
    • Works Focused Mainly on Mahāmudrā (259)
    • Works Focused Mainly on the Madhyamaka View (270)
    • Works Focused Mainly on Guru Yoga (272)
    • Final Remarks (278)
  • 12. Four Later Commentators279
    • Gugé Losang Tenzin (279)
    • Gungthang Könchok Tenpei Drönmé (281)
    • Ngulchu Dharmabhadra (284)
    • Keutsang Losang Jamyang Mönlam (286)
  • 13. Later Lamas from Amdo and Kham291
    • Changkya Rölpai Dorjé (291)
    • Thuken Losang Chökyi Nyima (295)
    • Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdröl (298)
    • Gyalrong Geshé Tsultrim Nyima (302)
    • Akhu Sherab Gyatso (304)
    • Choné Lama Lodrö Gyatso (306)
    • Losang Dongak Chökyi Gyatso (309)
  • 14. The Twentieth Century and Beyond313
    • Phabongkha Rinpoché (315)
    • Geshé Rabten (319)
    • Geshé Acharya Thubten Loden (321)
    • Gelek Rinpoché (323)
    • Geshé Kelsang Gyatso (327)
    • The Fourteenth Dalai Lama (331)
    • A Note on Recent Tibetan Editions (337)

• Part 4. Perspectives on Geluk Mahāmudrā
  • 15. Three Issues in Geluk Mahāmudrā341
    • The Name of the Tradition (341)
    • Geluk and Kagyu Mahamudra Compared (346)
    • The Place of Mahāmudrā in Geluk Life (358)
  • 16. Archer Among the Yellow Hats: Geluk Uses of Saraha363
    • Tsongkhapa and Saraha (364)
    • Khedrup Norsang Gyatso and Saraha (367)
    • Paṇchen Chögyen and Saraha (369)
    • Khöntön Paljor Lhundrup and Saraha (373)
    • Jamyang Shepa and Saraha (375)
    • Final Remarks (378)
  • 17. The Big Picture: Sixteen Questions381
    • 1. Is There Scriptural Warrant for Mahāmudrā? (382)
    • 2. To Which Dharma Wheel Does Mahāmudrā Belong? (384)
    • 3. Is There Mahāmudrā outside the Tantras? (386)
    • 4. Is Sudden Realization Possible? (389)
    • 5. Can a Single Realization Suffice? (391)
    • 6. Are We All Already Buddhas? (393)
    • 7. What Sort of Negation Is Emptiness? (396)
    • 8. Of What Is Buddha Mind Empty? (399)
    • 9. What Is Serenity and What Is Insight? (402)
    • 10. Is There a Place for Reason in Mahāmudrā? (403)
    • 11. Is There a Place for Devotion in Mahāmudrā? (409)
    • 12. Does Mahāmudrā Transcend Ritual? (412)
    • 13. Is There Room for Ethics in Mahāmudrā? (413)
    • 14. Is Mahāmudrā Expressible? (419)
    • 15. Is All Mahāmudrā Realization the Same? (423)
    • 16. What Is Mind? (427)

• Part 5. Translations
  • 1. Synopsis of the Spiritual Practice Taught by the Exalted Mañjughoṣa435
    • Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa
  • 2. Bright Lamp of the Excellent Path: An Excerpt439
    • Kachen Yeshé Gyaltsen
  • 3. Mahāmudrā Lineage Prayer457
  • 4. Highway of the Conquerors469
    • Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen
  • 5. Lamp So Bright481
    • Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen
  • 6. The Hundred Deities of Tuṣita539
    • Dulnakpa Palden Sangpo
  • 7. The Bright Lamp of Mahāmudrā543
    • Khedrup Norsang Gyatso
  • 8. Offering to the Guru567
    • Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen
  • 9. The Crystal Mirror of Tenet Systems: Excerpts597
    • Thuken Losang Chökyi Nyima
  • 10. Poetic Expressions611
    • Paṇchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen
• Appendix A: The Geluk Mahāmudrā Uncommon Proximate Lineage643
• Appendix B: The Geluk Mahāmudrā Uncommon Distant Lineage645
• Appendix C: Keutsang Jamyang Mönlam's Outline of Highway of the Conquerors 647
• Bibliography651
• Index689
• About the Author717

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Geluk - The Geluk tradition traces its origin to Tsongkhapa, who propagated a modified version of the Kadampa lojong and lamrim teachings. It is the dominant tradition of Tibet, having established its control of the government under the figure of the Dalai Lama. Tib. དགེ་ལུགས་

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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།

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Mahāyoga - This is first one of the inner tantric schools according to the Nyingma tradition. Mahāyoga includes two sub-sections of the tantras which includes eighteen tantras and the sādhanās that includes the eight sādhanā practices. Mahāyoga focuses on the Development Stage and espouses the view of equality and purity in which equality refers to equal nature of phenomena in being empty and purity refers to all appearances being inherently enlightened energies. The Mahāyoga path leads to four stages of vidyadharas. Skt. महायोग Tib. མཧཱ་ཡོ་ག,རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོ།

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Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib. བཀའ་གདམས་

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

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Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib. ས་སྐྱ་

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Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་

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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt. मध्यमक Tib. དབུ་མ་ Ch. 中觀見

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gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

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gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

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Jonang - The Jonang tradition was established by Dölpopa Sherab Gyaltsen, a thirteenth-century Sakya monk famous for his Zhentong teachings. The Jonang teachings and monasteries were suppressed in Tibet in the seventeenth century but survived in Amdo. Tib. ཇོ་ནང་

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib. བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་

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Yogācāra - Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana). Skt. योगाचार Tib. རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པ་ Ch. 瑜伽行派

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gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

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gzhan stong - The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature. Tib. གཞན་སྟོང་

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rang stong - The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena. Tib. རང་སྟོང་

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tathāgatagarbha - Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)." Skt. तथागतगर्भ Tib. དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ Ch. 如来藏

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prabhāsvaratā - In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas. Skt. प्रभास्वर Tib. འོད་གསལ་ Ch. 光明

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gotra - Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain. Skt. गोत्र Tib. རིགས་ Ch. 鍾姓,種性

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