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Blessing by His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa
Preface by Sangyes Nyenpa Rinpoche
Translator’s Introduction by David Molk
The Gangama Mahamudra of Tilopa: The Root Text in Tibetan and English
Discovery of Sacred Secrets on the Banks of the Ganges: A Commentary to Tilopa’s Gangama Mahamudra Instructions
Introduction to the Commentary
1. The Meaning of the Name
2. Marpa the Translator’s Homage
3. The Promise to Impart the Essence Instructions
4. Beginning the Actual Instructions: Mahamudra Transcends the Sphere of Terms and Concepts
5. Meditation within the Unfabricated State
6. How to Settle in the Original State without Modification
7. How the Movement of Thought Is Purified on the Spot
8. The Essential Mode of Existence Is Not Something or Nothing
9. Samsaric Phenomena Do Not Stain the Essence of the Mind
10. Expanding upon That Meaning
11. Showing How to Practice with Body, Speech, and Mind
12. Summary of the Previous Points
13. This Essential Meaning Cannot Be Seen Through View, Meditation, and Action That Make Assertions
14. Now, by Being Free of Mental Activity, We Can Realize Reality and Transcend Samsara and Nirvana
15. Urging of Compassion for Beings Who Have Not Realized It Thus
16. The Essential Meaning of This
17. How to Practice This
18. How It Transcends Intellect
19. View, Meditation, Action, and Results
20. The Result Abides in Spontaneity without Need for Hope and Fear
21. How Experience Arises from Correct Practice
22. How to Dispel Obstacles
23. Revealing the Path to That
Appendix 1: Tilopa, from the Golden Garland of the Kagyu by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje
Appendix 2: A Brief Account of Tilopa and Naropa by Gampopa
Appendix 3: The Mahamudra Prayer by the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje
Appendix 4: The Vajradhara Lineage Prayer by Bengel Jampel Zangpo
Notes
Works Cited in the Commentary
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