Description
The Treasury of Precious Instructions by Jamg?n Kongtrul Lodr? Taye, one of Tibet?s greatest Buddhist masters, is a shining jewel of Tibetan literature, presenting essential teachings from the entire spectrum of practice lineages that existed in Tibet. In its eighteen volumes, Kongtrul brings together some of the most important texts on key topics of Buddhist thought and practice as well as authoring significant new sections of his own.
The seventh volume of the series, Marpa Kagyu, is the first of four volumes that present a selection of core instructions from the Marpa Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. This lineage is named for the eleventh-century Tibetan Marpa Ch?kyi Lodr? of Lhodrak who traveled to India to study the s_tras and tantras with many scholar-siddhas, the foremost being N_ropa and Maitr_pa. The first part of this volume contains source texts on mah_mudr_ and the six dharmas by such famous masters as Saraha and Tilopa. The second part begins with a collection of s_dhanas and abhisekas related to the Root Cakrasamvara Aural Transmissions, which are the means for maturing, or empowering, students. It is followed by the liberating instructions, first from the Rechung Aural Transmission. This section on instructions continues in the following three Marpa Kagyu volumes. Also included are lineage charts and detailed notes by translator Elizabeth M. Callahan.
