Hardcover, 411 pages, Boston 2013, new
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1 Training
2 Maturity
3 The Questions of Tönyön Samdrup
4 The Questions of Gangpa Muksang
5 Tönyön's Questions on Chöd
6 The Questions of Gyenema
7 The Questions of Chökyi Senge
8 The Questions of Jetsün Zilnon
9 The Questions of Sönam Gyen
10 More Questions by Sönam Gyen
The Great Bundle of Precepts on Severance with Commentary
Machik's Complete Explanation is the most famous book of the teachings of Machik Labdron, the great female saint and yogini of 11-12th century Tibet, now finally translated in its entirety into English. Machik developed a system, the Mahamudra Chod, that takes the Buddha's teachings as a basis and applies them to the immediate experiences of negative mind states and malignant forces. Machik's unique feminine approach is to invoke and nurture the very demons that we fear and hate, transforming those reactive emotions into love. It is the tantric version of developing compassion and fearlessness, a radical method of cutting through ego- fixation.