The Mind of Mahamudra

Mind of Mahamudra offers the best of traditional contemplative literature in expertly crafted translation.–Kurtis R. Schaeffer, University of VirginiaQuite simply, the best anthology of Tibetan Mahamudra texts yet to appear. It provides a point of entry into Mahamudra meditation as taught within the school for which it has been most important, the Kagyü. The translations of essential texts by such great Kagyü masters as Lama Shang, the Third Karmapa, Pema Karpo, and Tselé Natsok Rangdröl are accurate, accessible, and informatively annotated. Mind of Mahamudra should be on the shelf of every student of Tibetan meditation–and of everyone interested Tibetan Buddhism more generally.–Roger R. Jackson, Carlton College, editor of The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems

Peter Alan Roberts was born in Wales and lives in Hollywood, California. He obtained a B.A. in Sanskrit and Pali and a Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies from Oxford University. For more than thirty years he has been working as an interpreter for lamas and as a translator of Tibetan texts.