A Spacious Path to Freedom: Practical Instructions on the Union of Mahamudra and Atiyoga

by Karma Chagmé

This manual of Tibetan meditation simply and thoroughly presents the profound Dzogchen and Mahamudra systems of practice. Karma Chagmé sets forth the stages of meditation practice, including the cultivation of meditative quiescence and insight, the experiential identification of awareness, and the highest steps of Mahamudra and Atiyoga, leading to perfect enlightenment in one lifetime. Drawing from his enormous textual erudition and mastery of Tibetan oral traditions, he shows how these two meditative systems can be unified into a single integrated approach to realizing the ultimate nature of consciousness.

Genres: Buddhism

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1650

About the author

Karma Chagmé (Tib.: Karma chags-med, also known as Raga Asya, Rā-ga a-sya) was a monk of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is important also to the Nyingma tradition, in that he was a principle teacher of Terton Migyur Dorje—revealer of the Nam chö (Tib. gnam-chos) terma cycle and thus a co-founder of the Palyul lineage of Nyingma—as well as authoring a treatise on the "Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen," the highest teachings of the Kagyu and Nyingma respectively.

Reviews

[Dhātturā · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very helpful explanation of the links, steps, movement along the path. This will help ground and guide the practice. Likely not a book those new to Dharma will understand well, give it time.