This guidebook for cultivating the meditative practices of stability and insight the first major work from the Drukpa Kagyu lineage to become available in English stands out among works of its kind as one of the clearest and most comprehensive presentations of coemergence, or mahamudra. In it, the eighteenth-century Tibetan master Ngawang Kunga Tenzin, the Third Khamtrul Rinpoche, details a step-by-step program of spiritual exercises that bring the meditator directly to clear realization of the fully perfect, ever-present, nondual nature of mind.

Beginning with the close relationship between phenomena and mind and the immense benefits of meditating on the nature of mind, the Third Khamtrul Rinpoche offers careful instructions on the four yogas of mahamudra together with advice on how to recognize genuine progress and how to remove obstacles that arise during meditation. Characteristic of the Drukpa Kagyu approach is that, even from the earliest stages of training, the author explains how all experience, thoughts, and perceptions may be used as the path to enlightenment from the perspective of insight into the nature of mind.

The Royal Seal of Mahamudra Volume One: A Guidebook for the Realization of Coemergence, Khamtrul Rinpoche III, Snow Lion, Hardcover, 352 pages, 2014, $39.95

The third Kamtrul Rinpoche (1680-1729), a great Tibetan visionary, meditation master, civic leader, and polymath, was widely recognized for his teachings and writings on Mahamudra systems of meditation.

Gerardo Abboud was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and starting in the early 1970s, lived in India and Nepal for fourteen years. Since 1986, Abboud has been president of the Dongyuling Center, Argentina, which offers free teachings on Buddhist theory and practice. He is the English interpreter for several Kagyu lamas and since 1992 has served as the Dalai Lamas interpreter in Latin America.

Contents: Royal Seal of Mahamudra Volume One: A Guidebook for the Realization of Coemergence
Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama	vii
Foreword by the Ninth Khamtrul Rinpoche, Shedrup Nyima	ix
Translator's Preface	xi
THE SUPREME COMPLETE PATH OF THE OCEAN OF PROFOUND MEANING
Prologue	3
1. Why Meditation Is Indispensable	5
2. The Key Points of Physical Posture	21
3. The Key Points of Voice	35
4. Settling the Mind	41
5. Eliminating the Faults of the Mind	69
6. Using the Mind as the Path	97
7. The Yoga of One-Pointedness	131
8. Eliminating the Faults of Shamatha	159
9. Refining Shamatha	169
10. Sustaining Shamatha	209
11. The Yoga of Simplicity	219
12. How to Practice Vipashyana	233
13. The Fruition of Vipashyana	261
14. The Yoga of One Taste	275
15. The Yoga of Nonmeditation	287
Appendix: Outline of the Text	293
Notes	301
Works Cited by the Author	309
Index	313

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