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Luminous Melodies: Essential Dohas of Indian Mahamudra
Essential poetic teachings from beloved Tibetan Buddhist masters in their first-ever English translation.
Presented here for the first time in English is a collection of dohas, or songs of realization, carefully and thoughtfully selected and translated from the large compendium the Indian Texts of the Mahamudra of Definitive Meaning, which was compiled by the Seventh Karmapa and drawn primarily from the Tengyur.
Beautiful, profound, and often outrageous, these verses were frequently composed spontaneously and thus have a moving sense of freedom, openness, and bliss. They range from summaries of the entire path of Mahamudra to pithy four-liners that point directly to the buddha within us. The authors include famous masters such as Saraha and Naropa, dakinis, kings, and also courtesans and cobblers—showing that realization is accessible to all of us, right here in our lives.
Presented here for the first time in English is a collection of dohas, or songs of realization, carefully and thoughtfully selected and translated from the large compendium the Indian Texts of the Mahamudra of Definitive Meaning, which was compiled by the Seventh Karmapa and drawn primarily from the Tengyur.
Beautiful, profound, and often outrageous, these verses were frequently composed spontaneously and thus have a moving sense of freedom, openness, and bliss. They range from summaries of the entire path of Mahamudra to pithy four-liners that point directly to the buddha within us. The authors include famous masters such as Saraha and Naropa, dakinis, kings, and also courtesans and cobblers—showing that realization is accessible to all of us, right here in our lives.
144 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 12, 2019
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Karl Brunnhölzl
23 books10 followersDr. Karl Brunnhölzl, M.D., Ph.D. (Tibetology, Buddhology, and Sanskrit, Hamburg University, 2005; Buddhist philosophy, Kamalashila Institute, Germany, 1998), is one of the main translators and teachers at Nitartha Institute under Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. In 2005, he was appointed as one of five Western Nalandabodhi teachers and given the title "mitra." In 2006, he moved to Seattle and works as a full-time Tibetan translator for Tsadra Foundation.
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August 4, 2021
Absolutely stunning collection of breathtaking poems, fully representative of the most intoxicating, pithy and rapturous illumination.
A considerably developed acquaintance with the Buddhist tenets might help savour these improvised, often heavily concentrated and succint expressions of enlightenment, but which are nevertheless likely to resonate with the everyday reader of philosophical propensity, notwithstanding the inevitable religious context.
Utterly recommended.
A considerably developed acquaintance with the Buddhist tenets might help savour these improvised, often heavily concentrated and succint expressions of enlightenment, but which are nevertheless likely to resonate with the everyday reader of philosophical propensity, notwithstanding the inevitable religious context.
Utterly recommended.
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