Songs of Naropa

Translation of A Summary of the View (84000)

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The main practice in the Kagyü teaching system is Mahamudra. The lineage of Mahamudra chiefly comes through Marpa Lotsawa's two root gurus, Naropa and Maitripa. The texts explained here — A Summary of Mahamudra and The View, Concisely Put — were spoken by Naropa.
Naropa's songs are very important for practitioners of Mahamudra, pithy words, rich with meaning. This is why I chose to teach them during my courses. The songs and my explanations are now translated by lotsawa Erik. These teachings are about essential meditation training. I consider them very important for future students to pay attention to and study. Doing so will greatly benefit one's understanding of the key points of Mahamudra. (Thrangu Rinpoche, foreword, 7)

Citation	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.

Foreword by Thrangu Rinpoche 7 The View, Concisely Put 9 Commentary 17 A Summary of Mahamudra 95 Commentary 101 Acknowledgements 199

Transcript of oral teachings by Thrangu Rinpoche. Includes two root texts from the canon:
1. Nāropa. ལྟ་བ་མདོར་བསྡུས་པ་ (lta ba mdor bsdus pa). The View, Concisely Put.
2. Nāropa. ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཚིག་བསྡུས་པ་ (phyag rgya chen po'i tshig bsdus pa). A Summary of Mahamudra. Many versions of this text have been printed. See for instance: New Delhi: rtsib ri par khang, rnam par rgyal ba dpal zhwa dmar ba'i chos sde, 1997.