Name/Title
Machig Labdron and the foundations of Chod / Jerome EdouEntry/Object ID
BQ7699 .G36 E36 1996Description
Summary: Machig Labdron is popularly considered to be both a dakini and a deity, an emanation of Yum Chenmo, or Prajnaparamita, the embodiment of the wisdom of the buddhas. Historically, this Tibetan woman, a contemporary of Milarepa, was an adept and outstanding teacher, a mother, and a founder of a unique transmission lineage known as the Chod of Mahamudra. This translation of the most famous biography of Machig Labdron, founder of the unique Mahamudra Chod tradition, is presented together with a comprehensive overview of Chod's historical and doctrinal origins in Indian Buddhism and its subsequent transmission to Tibet.
Chod refers to cutting through the grasping at a self and its attendant emotional afflictions. Most famous for its teaching on transforming the aggregates into an offering of food for demons as a compassionate act of self-sacrifice, Chod aims to free the mind from all fear and to arouse realization of its true nature, primordially clear bliss and emptiness.Dimensions
Dimension Description
xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmBook Details
Author
Jerome EdouPublisher
Snow LionDate Published
1996Publication Subjects
Ma-gcig Lab-sgron, 1055-1153
Gcod (Buddhist rite)Call No.
BQ7699 .G36 E36 1996ISBN
1559390395