Machig Labdron And The Foundations Of Chod

Author : Jerome Edou
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834841010
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machig Labdron and the Foundations of Chod written by Jerome Edou and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machig Labdron is popularly considered to be both a dakini and a deity, an emanation of Yum Chenmo, or Prajnaparamita, the embodiment of the wisdom of the buddhas. Historically, this Tibetan woman, a contemporary of Milarepa, was an adept and outstanding teacher, a mother, and a founder of a unique transmission lineage known as the Chöd of Mahamudra. This translation of the most famous biography of Machig Labdron, founder of the unique Mahamudra Chöd tradition, is presented together with a comprehensive overview of Chöd's historical and doctrinal origins in Indian Buddhism and its subsequent transmission to Tibet. Chöd refers to cutting through the grasping at a self and its attendant emotional afflictions. Most famous for its teaching on transforming the aggregates into an offering of food for demons as a compassionate act of self-sacrifice, Chöd aims to free the mind from all fear and to arouse realization of its true nature, primordially clear bliss and emptiness.

Author : Jerome Edou
Publisher : Snow Lion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machig Labdron and the Foundations of Chod written by Jerome Edou and published by Snow Lion. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chod refers to cutting through the ego and emotional entanglements.

Author : Sarah Harding
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834829088
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machik's Complete Explanation written by Sarah Harding and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear, anger, and negativity are states that each of us have to contend with. Machik's Complete Explanation, the most famous book of the teachings of Machik Lapdrön, the great female saint and yogini of eleventh- to twelfth-century Tibet, addresses these issues in a practical, direct way. Machik developed a system, the Mahamudra Chöd, that takes the Buddha's teachings as a basis and applies them to the immediate experiences of negative mind states and malignant forces. Her unique feminine approach is to invoke and nurture the very "demons" that we fear and hate, transforming those reactive emotions into love. It is the tantric version of developing compassion and fearlessness, a radical method of cutting through ego-fixation. This expanded edition includes Machik Lapdrön's earliest known teaching, the original source text for the tradition, The Great Bundle of Precepts on Severance (Chöd). This pithy set of instructions reveals that the teachings of the perfection of wisdom are the true inspiration for Chöd. It is beautifully clarified in a short commentary by Rangjung Dorje, the Third Karmapa.

Author : Kyabje Zong Rinpoche
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1559392614
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chod in the Ganden Tradition written by Kyabje Zong Rinpoche and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2006-11-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chöd in the Ganden Tradition, we encounter not only the life and teachings of one of the greatest Tibetan masters in modern times, but also instructions in one of the most interesting Tibetan techniques for working with basic fears, applicable to Chöd practitioners from all lineages. The instructions are offered with the engaging directness, wit, and stories for which Rinpoche was legendary. He tells miraculous accounts of the Ganden Oral Lineage masters and then gives detailed explanations of the actual practice, including such topics as the degree of fear necessary for Chöd practice, and how to remember dream and death morning, noon, and night. Also provided are the Chöd sadhanas for chanting in English.

Author : Koṅ-sprul Blo-gros-mthaʼ-yas
Publisher : Snow Lion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chod Practice Manual and Commentary written by Koṅ-sprul Blo-gros-mthaʼ-yas and published by Snow Lion. This book was released on 2007-04-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential guide for practitioners of Chod, a system for working with fear.

Author : Tsultrim Allione
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1559391413
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Wisdom written by Tsultrim Allione and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fascinating and inspiring” celebration of women’s spirituality and the female mystics of Tibetan Buddhism—now featuring an updated and expanded author autobiography (San Francisco Chronicle) Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics. These stories of great women who have achieved full illumination—overcoming cultural prejudices and a host of other problems which male practitioners do not encounter—offer a wealth of inspiration to everyone on the spiritual path. In this revised and expanded edition, Tsultrim Allione’s extensive autobiographical preface and introduction speak directly to the difficulties and triumphs of women in the West who pursue a spiritual life, as she shares her own stories and experiences. Women of Wisdom offers valuable insights to all those interested in women’s spirituality, regardless of background or tradition.

Author : Tsultrim Allione
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1781809011
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feeding Your Demons written by Tsultrim Allione and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2009-02-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling with depression, anxiety, illness, an eating disorder, a difficult relationship, fear, self-hatred, addiction or anger? Renowned Buddhist leader Tsultrim Allione explains that the harder we fight our demons, the stronger they become. Offering Eastern answers to Western needs, Tsultrim seamlessly weaves traditions from Tibet and the Western world to offer a new and unique answer to the problems that plague us: that rather than attempt to purge them, we need to reverse our approach and nurture our demons. This powerful five-step practice forms a strategy for transforming negative emotions, relationships, fears, illness and self-defeating patterns. This will help you cope with the inner enemies that undermine our best intentions.

Author : Alejandro Chaoul
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1559392924
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition written by Alejandro Chaoul and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic practice of chöd, in which the yogin visualizes giving his or her own sacrificed body to the gods and demons as a way to cut the attachment to self and ordinary reality, offers an intense and direct confrontation with the central issues of the spiritual path. The chöd practices of the Bön tradition, a tradition that claims pre-Buddhist origins in the mysterious western lands of Zhang-zhung Tazig and Olmolungrig, are still almost entirely unknown.

Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148145X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death written by Karma Lekshe Tsomo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Buddhist view of death and its implications for contemporary bioethics. Writing primarily from within the Tibetan tradition, author Karma Lekshe Tsomo discusses Buddhist notions of human consciousness and personal identity and how these figure in the Buddhist view of death. Beliefs about death and enlightenment and states between life and death are also discussed. Tsomo goes on to examine such hot-button topics as cloning, abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, organ donation, genetic engineering, and stem-cell research within a Buddhist context, introducing new ways of thinking about these highly controversial issues.

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861718941
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives and Liberation of Princess Mandarava written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lucid translation of a rare Tibetan text makes available for the first time to Western readers the remarkable life story of Princess Madarava. As the principal consort of the eighth century Indian master Padmasambhava before he introduced tantric Buddhism to Tibet, Mandarava is the Indian counterpart of the Tibetan consort Yeshe Tsogyal. Lives and Liberation recounts her struggles and triumphs as a Buddhist adept throughout her many lives and is an authentic deliverance story of a female Buddhist master. Those who read this book will gain inspiration and encouragement on the path to liberation.