The Play of Mahamudra

Spontaneous Teachings on Virupa's Mystical Songs

Lama Migmar Tseten

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781614297031
• eBook ISBN:
  9781614297765
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Buddhism

Essential commentary on the spontaneous mystical songs of the Indian Buddhist rebel-saint Virupa. In this collection, renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Migmar Tseten provides essential commentary on the mystical songs of the Indian Buddhist rebel-saint Virupa. One of the most celebrated tantric masters of Buddhist India, Virupa's songs describe his realization of mahamudra, the ultimate nature of reality. Intimate and highly engaging, The Play of Mahamudra unpacks these songs with meticulous clarity, making Virupa's insights accessible to modern readers."This new collected edition of Khenpo Migmar Tseten's Play of Mahamudra volumes constitutes a veritable treasure for all who are deeply engaged on the path to enlightenment. Khenpo Migmar's translation of Mahasiddha Virupa's Treasury of Dohas and of Sachen Kunga Nyingpo's Praise to Virupa makes us intimately familiar with the essence of these root texts, and his elucidation of the Dohas offers us a deep and clear understanding of their core meaning. Anyone who truly contemplates on Mahasiddha Virupa's words is certain to attain realization."—His Holiness the Sakya Triche

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Completely Pure by Nature, Like Space
• 2. Not Eternal, Not Annihilated
• 3. Not Apparent, Not Empty
• 4. Not Real, Not Unreal, Not Nonarising
• 5. Not Beyond Mind
• 6. Also Not Nonbeing
• 7. Those False Horns of a Rabbit
• 8. Innate from the Beginning, Not to Be Sought Elsewhere
• 9. Empty Throughout All Time and Always Selfless
• 10. The Play of Mahamudra, the Original Dharmata
• 11. Connected with the Sublime Guru
• 12. Since One Is Free from All Attachment
• 13. Thoughts Arise in the Mind Like a Stream
• 14. Rest in the Undistracted State
• 15. Though It Seems a Particle Is in the Eye
• 16. Just As a Good Horse Is Encouraged
• 17. Giving Up Nothing, Accomplishing Nothing
• 18. Give Up Attachment and Aversion
• 19. Think on the Great Benefit of Migrating Beings
• 20. Difference Is Liberated in Its Own State
• 21. Since Realism Is Destroyed in Its Own State
• 22. Who Realizes Selflessness?
• 23. Nothing Exists in Peaceful and Pure Space
• Appendix 1. Complete Translation of Virupa’s Treasury of Dohas
• Appendix 2. Complete Translation of Sachen Kunga Nyingpo’s Praise to Virupa
• Index
• About the Author
• Copyright