A Mahamudra Transmission by Kalu Rinpoche and Commentary by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche

Although our minds may appear to us as deluded and filled with turbulent thoughts, underneath the turbulence the mind is the trikaya, the three bodies of buddhahood, that are already present within our minds. The dharmakaya is our mind's emptiness, the sambogakaya is our mind's cognitive lucidity, and the nirmanakaya is our mind's acute awareness that cuts through embellishment and delusion. These have always been there within each and every one of us, and that is what Mahamudra or Great Seal means.
-- Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, from the Commentary

Single Sufficient Virtue was written by the previous Kyapje Kalu Rinpoche, Karma Rangjung Kunkhyab. It explains how our minds, whether active or still, are always the actual three bodies of buddhahood, and how recognition of this is the key to liberation. In this book, this brief text is clearly explained by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, the abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, the North American seat of the Gyalwang Karmapa.
-- Lama Yeshe Gyamtso

Single Sufficient Virtue, Kalu Rinpoche & Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, KTD Publications, 59 Pages, 2016, $9.95

The late Kalu Rinpoche was born in 1905 in Eastern Tibet. At fifteen, he gave his first public teaching and soon afterward entered the traditional three-year, three-month retreat. From the age of eighteen, Rinpoche studied with several eminent teachers in Tibet and then began a period of mountain retreat. Rinpooche spent many years teaching and directing retreats in Tibet. By 1955, he had revitalized the Shangpa Kagyu lineage and was a senior lama at the Karma Kagyu lineage when the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa sent him to India and Bhutan to prepare for the anticipated exodus of refugees from Chinese occupied Tibet. In 1971, H.E. Kalu Rinpoche was sent on a teaching journey to the West by His Holiness the Karmapa. During his many subsequent visits, he founded numerous dharma and retreat centers for serious study in the Kagyu tradition in France, Sweden, Canada and the United States before his passing in 1989.

CONTENTS: Single Sufficient Virtue
Introduction to the Text	1
The Actual Text	5
Colophon	53
Acknowledgments	57