Mahamudra The Moonlight—Quintessence of Mind and Meditation, by Tashi Namgyal, Book

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Mahamudra
The Moonlight—Quintessence of Mind and Meditation
Tashi Namgyal, Author
Lobsang P. Lhalungpa, Translator_|_His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Foreword

When it first appeared in 1986, Mahamudra: The Moonlight—Quintessence of Mind and Meditation was the first presentation in English of a major Tibetan Buddhist work on meditation. This classic guide was composed in the sixteenth century by an eminent lama of the Kagyu school and is so comprehensive and practical that it is still widely used today as a manual. Divided into two major sections, it presents first the common approach and then the mahamudra approach to tranquility (shamatha) and insight (vipashyana) meditation.

Dakpo Tashi Namgyal (1511–87), a lineage holder of the Drukpa Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism who also trained in the Sakya school, was renowned as both a scholar and meditator. During his later years he served as chief abbot of Daklha Gampo in southern Tibet.

Lobsang P. Lhalungpa (1926- ) was born in Lhasa, Tibet. From 1940 until 1952, he was a monk-official in the service of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and of the Tibetan government. Designated by His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa to translate Mahamudra, he is also the translator of The Life of Milarepa and the author of Tibet: The Sacred Realm. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

528 pages