Best known as Machig Labdron's teacher, the Indian mahasiddha Padampa Sangye is counted as a lineage guru by all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He brought the lineage of Chod to Tibet, carried the Buddha's teachings to China, and is even asserted, in the Tibetan tradition, to have been the legendary Bodhidharma.

Padampa Sangye's teaching methods were unorthodox and sometimes extreme. This transcendent and irascible teacher encouraged his disciples to disregard social conventions, disdain social contacts, and go beyond their cultural conditioning. He inspired innumerable highly realized disciples, many of whom were women.

Lion of Siddhas presents two extraordinary texts: a biography of Padampa Sangye and a rare collection of his verbal and nonverbal teachings, called Mahamudra in Symbols, recorded by his chief Tibetan disciple almost a thousand years ago.

Lion of Siddhas: The Life and Teachings of Padampa Sangye, David Molk, Tsering Wandu, Snow Lion Publications, 352 pp, $34.95

David Molk studied Tibetan language at Venerable Geshe Rabten�s Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies in Mont-P�lerin, Switzerland. Since 1987 he has interpreted and translated for many Tibetan lamas. He lives in Big Sur, California.

Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche is a lineage holder of the Longchen Nyingthig, Shije, and Chod traditions. Born in 1935 in Tingri Langkor, Tibet, he received transmission and training from his root Lama, Naptra Rinpoche, and completed the traditional 108 charnel ground Chod pilgrimage before he was twenty. Naptra Rinpoche sent Lama Wangdu to Nepal on pilgrimage shortly before the Chinese closed the border in 1959. A well-trained and experienced yogi, he has lived in Nepal ever since, spending much of his life in retreat and serving the Tibetan refugee community

	Contents: Lion of Siddhas
	Foreword by Swami Chetanananda	vii
	Introduction by Lama Tsering Wangdu Rinpoche	1
	Translator's Acknowledgments	11
	Translator's Introduction	13
	The Story of the Liberated Life of the Great Lord of Siddhas, Venerable Padampa Sangye: A Sun Ablaze With Thousandfold Rays of Attainment, by Chokyi Senge
	Homage	29
	His Previous Lives	33
	The Greatness of His Birthplace	37
	The Greatness of His Family Lineage and Birth	39
	The Greatness of His Training in the Vows	43
	The Greatness of His Gurus	45
	The Greatness of His Learning	47
	The Greatness of His Siddhis	49
	The Greatness of His Deeds	53
	The Greatness of His Mirculous Powers	91
	The Greatness of His Parinirvana	101
	The Greatness of His Disciples	137
	Summary	171
	Padampa Sangye's Mahamudra Teachings in Symbols, recorded by the heart disciple, Bodhisattva Kunga
	The Sign Indications	177
	The Speech Indications	181
	The Rounds of Teachings through Questions and Answers	193
	Questions and Answers on the Essence Meaning	211
	Questions and Answers on Essential Points	261
	Questions and Answers about Activities	275
	The Mirror of Mind Instructions	289
	Appendices
1.	Rejuvenation Practice	311
2.	The Stainless Path of the Silver Egg of Speech	313
3.	Transmutatation of Speech into Mantra	321
4.	The Nature of the Path	325
5.	Stabilizing the Preliminaries	327
	Endnotes	329