Mahamudra in India and Tibet

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41040-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library

Mahamudra in India and Tibet presents cutting-edge research by European and North American scholars on the Indian origins and Tibetan interpretations of one of the most popular and influential of all Tibetan meditation traditions, Mahamudra, or the great seal. The contributions shed fresh light on important areas of Mahamudra studies, exploring the Great Seal’s place in the Mahayana Samadhirajasutra, the Indian tantric Seven Siddhi Texts, Dunhuang Yogatantra texts, Mar pa’s Rngog lineage, and the Dgongs gcig literature of the ’Bri gung, as well as in the works of Yu mo Mi bskyod rdo rje, the Fourth Zhwa dmar pa Chos grags ye shes, the Eighth Karma pa Mi-bskyod rdo rje, and various Dge lugs masters of the 17th–18th centuries.

Contributors are: Jacob Dalton, Martina Draszczyk, Cecile Ducher, David Higgins, Roger R. Jackson, Casey Kemp, Adam Krug, Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, and Paul Thomas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jackson, Roger R.

Mathes, Klaus-Dieter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus Tibetischer Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Klaus-Dieter Mathes and Roger Jackson

1 The Sama¯dhira¯jasu¯tra and “Su¯tra Maha¯mudra¯”: A Critical Edition and Translation of Verses 1–118 from Chapter 32 of the Sama¯dhira¯jasu¯tra

Paul Thomas

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

Adam C. Krug

3 Mahamudra and Samayamudra 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 Mahamudra and the Six Yogas of Naropa

Jan-Ulrich Sobisch

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

Casey A. Kemp

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

Martina Draszczyk

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

David Higgins

9 Maitripa’s Amanasikara-Based Mahamudra 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 Mahamudra

Roger R. Jackson

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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), Mahamudra 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 Mahamudra and Madhyamaka (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2015).