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• Articles/The Logic of Liberation: Epistemology as a Path to the Realization of Mahāmudrā  + (Anne Burchardi'"`UNIQ--ref-00000BDA-QINU`" … Anne Burchardi'"`UNIQ--ref-00000BDA-QINU`"'<br></br>The present article is a contribution to the discussion on the place of epistemology in Tibetan Buddhism in relation to the doctrine of Mahāmudrā, drawing on a selection of Tibetan sources from the 16th century as well as Bhutanese sources from the 19th century.<br></br>      While Buddhist epistemology may seem dry and cerebral, it plays a special role as a gateway to Mahāmudrā according to certain masters associated with the ''gzhan stong'' philosophy'"`UNIQ--ref-00000BDB-QINU`"'. For them, not only can direct valid cognition (''mngon sum tshad ma'') in general be linked to the non-conceptual states associated with Mahāmudrā meditation, but the basic epistemological definition of mind as luminous and cognisant (''gsal zhing rig pa'') is a precursor to the pointing-out instructions for recognising the nature of mind. According to some interpretations, it is the direct valid cognition of apperception'"`UNIQ--ref-00000BDC-QINU`"' (''rang rig mngon sum tshad mo''), which experiences this true nature, and the direct yogic valid cognition (''mal 'byor mngon sum tshad ma''), which realises it.a''), which realises it.)

• Articles/The Logic of Liberation: Epistemology as a Path to the Realization of Mahāmudrā  +