Mahāmudrā in India and Tibet

Roger R. Jackson, Ph.D. (1983), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion, Emeritus, at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. He has published widely on various topics in Indic and Tibetan Buddhism. His publications include Tantric Treasures (Oxford, 2004), Mahāmudrā and the Bka’ brgyud Tradition (IITBS, 2011), Mind Seeing Mind (Wisdom, 2019). Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Ph.D. (1994), Marburg University, is University Professor and Head of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. His publications include A Direct Path to the Buddha Within (Wisdom, 2008) and A Fine Blend of Mahāmudrā and Madhyamaka (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2015).

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Klaus-Dieter Mathes and Roger Jackson



1 The Samādhirājasūtra and “Sūtra Mahāmudrā”: A Critical Edition and Translation of Verses 1–118 from Chapter 32 of the Samādhirājasūtra

 Paul Thomas



2 The Seven Siddhi Texts (Grub pa sde bdun): Remarks on the Corpus and Its Employment in Sa skya-Bka’ brgyud Mahāmudrā Polemical Literature

 Adam C. Krug



3 Mahāmudrā and Samayamudrā in the Dunhuang Documents and Beyond

 Jacob P. Dalton



4 A Neglected Bka’ brgyud Lineage: the Rngog from Gzhung and the Rngog pa Bka’ brgyud Transmission

 Cécile Ducher



5 ’Jig rten gsum mgon’s Dgongs gcig on the Relation between Mahāmudrā and the Six Yogas of Nāropa

 Jan-Ulrich Sobisch



6 The Definitive Meaning of Mahāmudrā according to the Kālacakra Tradition of Yu mo Mi bskyod rdo rje’s Phyag chen gsal sgron

 Casey A. Kemp



7 Mahāmudrā as Revelatory of the Key-Point of the Third Dharmacakra according to the Sixty Verses on Mahāmudrā by Zhwa dmar Chos grags ye shes

 Martina Draszczyk



8 Mi bskyod rdo rje on the Question of What Remains (lhag ma, avaśiṣṭa)

 David Higgins



9 Maitrīpa’s Amanasikāra-Based Mahāmudrā in the Works of the Eighth Karma pa Mi bskyod rdo rje

 Klaus-Dieter Mathes



10 Assimilating the Great Seal: the Dge lugs pa-ization of the dge ldan bka ’brgyud Tradition of Mahāmudrā

 Roger R. Jackson



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