Clarifying the Natural State

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Dagpo Tashi Namgyal

Clarifying the Natural State (gnyug ma'i de nyid gsal ba). A meditation manual written by Dagpo Tashi Namgal, the 16th Century Tibetan lama and scholar of the Dagpo Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism.

Hugh Williams states:

This text is a fairly thin volume with no historical or philosophical component - it is a very precise, 'hands-on' instruction manual on how to meditate in the Mahamudra tradition.
[...]
Despite its brevity, Clarifying the Natural State covers an enormous amount of ground. It sketches the path of meditation from the initial steps of the general and specific preliminaries, right through to the levels of attainment said to accompany the practitioner traversing the bhumis on the way to full Buddhahood.
The majority of the text, however, is squarely focused on the establishment and stabilisation of mindfulness and calm, through shamatha practice, and developing analytical understanding through vipashyana techniques.[1]

Translation

  • Clarifying the Natural State—A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra, translated by Erik Pema Kunsang, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2001.

Tibetan text

Notes

  1. ↑ Clarifying the Natural State, Rangjung Yeshe Publications

Further reading

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