Machik's Complete Explanation,9781559391825

Machik's Complete Explanation

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ISBN13: 9781559391825
ISBN10: 1559391820
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-06-01
Publisher(s): Snow Lion Pubns
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Summary

This book is the most famous book of teachings of Machik Labdron, the great female saint and yogini of 11 and 12th century Tibet, now finally translated in its entirely into English.

Table of Contents

Foreword 9(2)
Thrangu Rinpoche
Acknowledgments 11(2)
Preface 13(8)
Introduction 21(36)
Training
57(20)
Previous Life in India
57(2)
Her Birthplace, Parents, and Birth
59(4)
Childhood
63(2)
Life As a Recitation Chaplain with Lama Drapa
65(1)
First Meeting with Dampa Sangye
66(1)
Meeting with Sonam Lama
67(2)
Empowerment
69(3)
Other Masters
72(1)
Teachings from Dampa Sangye
72(3)
Synopsis
75(2)
Maturity
77(26)
Meeting Topa Bhadra
77(4)
Empowerment from Sonam Lama
81(2)
Empowerment from Dampa
83(1)
The Red House of Copper Mountain
84(2)
Encounter with Tara
86(3)
Tonyon Samdrup
89(4)
The Inquisition of the Indian Panditas
93(5)
Machik's Teachings and Transmissions
98(5)
The Questions of Tonyon Samdrup
103(14)
How Tonyon Perceives Machik
106(1)
How She Emanates
107(1)
The Five Degenerations
107(2)
The Specialness of Chod
109(5)
About Mahamudra
114(3)
The Questions of Gangpa Muksang
117(20)
The Four Devils
117(4)
When to Sever Them
121(2)
Six Kinds of Gods and Demons
123(10)
Evidence of Success at Severance
133(4)
Tonyon's Questions on Chod
137(48)
Giving Rise to the Resolve for Enlightenment and Gathering the Guests
140(4)
Meditating on the Objects of Refuge, Training the Mind in the Four Immeasurables, and Inviting the Field of Accumulation
144(9)
Paying Homage with the Eight Branches and Making Offerings
153(3)
Separating Body and Mind (powa) and Offering the Mandala
156(6)
Supplicating and Bringing Down Blessings
162(1)
Offering the Body and Giving It in Charity
163(18)
Concluding with the Dedication, Prayers, and Dissolution
181(4)
The Questions of Gyenema
185(20)
Death and Dying
185(4)
Divisions of the Body
189(6)
Outer and Inner Gods and Demons
195(1)
Characteristics of the Body
196(7)
The Syllables Ha, Hung, and P'e
203(2)
The Questions of Chokyi Senge
205(26)
The Ten Obligations
205(2)
Dress Styles of Chod
207(5)
Identifying Local Spirits
212(2)
Size and Quantities in the Chod Visualizations
214(3)
Uprisings, Apparitions, Evidence of Success, and Evidence of Severance
217(4)
The Common and Uncommon Evidence of Success
221(10)
The Question of Jetsun Zilnon
231(22)
Outer and Inner Apparitions of Spirits
231(16)
General Apparitions
247(3)
Special Occurrences
250(3)
The Questions of Sonam Gyen
253(8)
Future Corruption of State Law
253(8)
More Questions of Sonam Gyen
261(22)
Future Deterioration of Religious Ethics
261(10)
The Future of Chod
271(11)
Colophon
282(1)
Abbreviations Used in Notes 283(2)
Notes 285(44)
Glossary 329(10)
Bibliography 339(8)
Index 347

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