Mahamudra is a simple, direct method for looking beyond our thoughts to the very nature of conscious experience. It is said mahamudra is not attained not because it is too difficult but because it is too easy, not because it is too far but because it is too close, and not because it is hidden but because it is too evident.

Mind of Mahamudra highlights this central meditation practice of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism through six texts ranging from the twelfth-century to the seventeenth and including such celebrated authors as Lama Shang and the Third Karmapa. Eminent scholar Peter Alan Roberts draws on his thirty-plus years of experience of translating for Tibetan lamas to illuminate these benchmark translations.
Mind of Mahamudra: Advice from the Kagyu Masters, Peter Alan Roberts (translator), Wisdom Publications, Paperback, 261 pp, $16.95

Peter Alan Roberts (translator) was born in Wales and lives in Hollywood, California. He earned a BA in Sanskrit and Pali and a DPhil in Tibetan Studies from Oxford University (Harris-Manchester College). For more than thirty years he has been working as an interpreter for lamas and as a translator of Tibetan texts. He specializes in the literature of the Kagy and Nyingma traditions with a focus on tantric practices, and he is the author of The Biographies of Rechungpa.

CONTENTS: Mind of Mahamudra
General Editor's Preface		ix
Translator's Introduction		1
1.	The Unrivaled Instructions of Shang Rinpoch: The Preliminaries and Main Practice of the Great Meditation of Mahamudra Shonu Lha	13
2.	The Ultimate Supreme Path of the Mahamudra Lama Shang	39
3.	A Record of Mahamudra Instructions Drukchen Pema Karpo	103
4.	Instructions for the Mahamudra Innate Union Karmapa Rangjung Dorje	125
5.	Prayer for the Definitive Meaning, the Mahamudra Karmapa Rangjung Dorje	147
6.	The Bright Torch: The Perfect Illumination of the True Meaning of the Mahamudra, the Essence of All the Dharma Tsel Natsok Rangdrol	155
Notes		211
Glossary		229
Bibliography		243
Index		251
About the Contributors		261