The Unification of Co-emergent Mahamudra is the amalgamation of the whole range of essential pith instructions in the Buddha's teachings of sutra and tantra. Left behind by the past siddhas, it is the most profound Dharma of the Kagyud lineage in general and the Dagpo Kagyud lineage in particular. It is a very convenient practice, emphasized by the Dharma Lord Gampopa.

Introduction to Mahamudra: The Co-emergent Unification, Drigung Kyopa Jigten Sumgon, Songsten Library, 59pp, $12.00

Drigung Kyopa Jigten Sumgon, the second Nagarjuna, was the foremost disciple and successor of Drogon Phagmo Drupa, the most outstanding disciple and successor of Dharma Lord Gampopa. Drigung Kyopa Jigten Sumgon founded the Drigung Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhism in the twelfth century and taught the Dharma of the three vehicles extensively for forty years. He had more than a hundred thousand disciples at a time; as the famous saying goes, "the mountains are filled with Drigung practitioners and the plains are filled with Drigung patrons." His teachings, coming from his own experience, are well known for their clarity and precision. The quintessence of the whole gamut of his discourses is contained in Gong Chik, the Same Intent.

KHENPO KONCHOK TAMPHEL was born in Tingmosgang, Ladakh in 1975, He became a monk at the age of nine in Yungdrung Tharpa Ling Monasstery, one of the three main Drigung Kagu Monasteries in Ladakh. After completing his basic monastic education in Yungdrung Tharpa Ling Monastery, he joined the Drigung Kagyu Institute in Dehra Dun in 1987 where he studied the various branches of Buddhist philosophy for nine years and recieved the degree of Archarya in 1995. Since then he has been teaching and translating in different parts of the world in Drigung Kagyu Dharma Centers.