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|title=grub chen tai lo pa'i phyag rgya chen po gang+gA ma'i gzhung sa bcad 'grel pa dang bcas pa
|titletib=གྲུབ་ཆེན་ཏཻ་ལོ་པའི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་གངྒཱ་མའི་གཞུང་ས་བཅད་འགྲེལ་པ་དང་བཅས་པ་
|titleintext=grub chen tai lo pa'i phyag rgya chen po gang+gA ma'i gzhung sa bcad 'grel pa dang bcas pa bzhugs so/
|titleintexttib=གྲུབ་ཆེན་ཏཻ་ལོ་པའི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་གངྒཱ་མའི་གཞུང་ས་བཅད་འགྲེལ་པ་དང་བཅས་པ་བཞུགས་སོ།
|titletrans=Ganges Mahāmudrā: Esoteric Instructions on Mahāmudrā
|translation=None
|collection=gdams ngag mdzod
|collectiontib=གདམས་ངག་མཛོད་
|author=Tilopa
|authortib=ཏི་ལོ་པ་
|authorincolophon=tai lo pa
|authorincolophonofficialspelling=Tilopa
|associatedpeople=Tilopa; Nāropa; mar pa chos kyi blo gros
|translator=mar pa chos kyi blo gros
|translatortib=མར་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་
|printer=Jayyed Press, Ballimaran, Delhi-6
|publisher=Shechen Publications
|place=New Delhi
|year=1999
|volwylie=mar pa bka' brgyud pod dang po
|volnumber=7
|VolumeLetterTib=ཇ་
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|totalpages=4
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:*རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། མ་ཧཱ་མུ་དྲ་ཨུ་པ་དེ་ཤ།
::: ma hA mu dra u pa de sha/
:*བོད་སྐད་དུ། གྲུབ་ཆེན་ཏཻ་ལོ་པའི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་གངྒཱ་མའི་གཞུང་ས་བཅད་འགྲེལ་པ་དང་བཅས་པ་བཞུགས་སོ།
:::  grub chen tai lo pa'i phyag rgya chen po gang+gA ma'i gzhung sa bcad 'grel pa dang bcas pa bzhugs so/

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:*གཡོན་:  ཇ་ གཅེས་ (གྲངས་ཀ་) བཏུས་
::Left:  ja gces (tibfolio#) btus
:*གཡས་:  (#) གདམས་ངག་མཛོད་བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་
::Right: (#) gdams ngag mdzod bka' brgyud

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:*གཡོན་:  ཕྱག་ཆེན་ཆོས་དྲུག་
::Left: phyag chen chos drug
:*གཡས་:  (#)
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|partialcolophonwylie=/phyag rgya chen po grub pa'i dpal tai lo pa chen po'i zhal snga nas mdzad pa kha che'i paN+Di ta mkhas la grub pa'i nA ro pas dka' ba bcu gnyis mdzad pa'i rting la chu bo gang+gA'i 'gram du tai lo pas gsungs pa phyag rgya chen po rdo rje'i tshig rkang nyi shu rtsa dgu pa rdzogs so//_/nA ro pa chen po'i zhal snga nas dang /_/bod kyi lo tsA ba chen po sgra bsgyur gyi rgyal po mar pa chos kyi blo gros kyis/_/byang phul+la ha rir bsgyur cing zhus te gtan la phab pa rdzogs so//_(see note)_/dge'o/_(see note)'di ni dpal ti lo pa'i phyag rgya chen po gang+gA ma zhes sgrub brgyud 'dzin pa mtha' dag la yongs su grags shing /_/snga rabs pa rnams kyis mdzad pa'i sa bcad 'grel pa 'di yig sogs mang du snang ngo /
|partialcolophontib=།ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་གྲུབ་པའི་དཔལ་ཏཻ་ལོ་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཞལ་སྔ་ནས་མཛད་པ་ཁ་ཆེའི་པཎྜི་ཏ་མཁས་ལ་གྲུབ་པའི་ནཱ་རོ་པས་དཀའ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་མཛད་པའི་རྟིང་ལ་ཆུ་བོ་གངྒཱའི་འགྲམ་དུ་ཏཻ་ལོ་པས་གསུངས་པ་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཚིག་རྐང་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་དགུ་པ་རྫོགས་སོ༎ །ནཱ་རོ་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཞལ་སྔ་ནས་དང་། །བོད་ཀྱི་ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་ཆེན་པོ་སྒྲ་བསྒྱུར་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་མར་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་བློ་གྲོས་ཀྱིས། །བྱང་ཕུལླ་ཧ་རིར་བསྒྱུར་ཅིང་ཞུས་ཏེ་གཏན་ལ་ཕབ་པ་རྫོགས་སོ༎ <ref>contains a transliterated Sanskrit ''ithi'' that can not be rendered in Tibetan characters</ref> །དགེའོ། <ref>the following material is a scribal note added on after the colophon of the actual text</ref>འདི་ནི་དཔལ་ཏི་ལོ་པའི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་གངྒཱ་མ་ཞེས་སྒྲུབ་བརྒྱུད་འཛིན་པ་མཐའ་དག་ལ་ཡོངས་སུ་གྲགས་ཤིང་། །སྔ་རབས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པའི་ས་བཅད་འགྲེལ་པ་འདི་ཡིག་སོགས་མང་དུ་སྣང་ངོ་།
|chokyigenre=Instruction manual
|dkarchaggenre=gzhung rtsa 'grel
|keywords=gces btus; phyag chen chos drug
|tbrc=[http://tbrc.org/link?RID=W23605 VolumeI1CZ3969]
|tbrccontents=No note on contents
|othertranslations=Brunnhölzl, Karl. Straight from the Heart: Buddhist Pith Instructions. Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications, 2007. 

Chogyam Trungpa. The Myth of Freedom. Berkeley: Shambhala, 1976.

[[Morrell, Jerry]], trans. [[The Life of Tilopa and the Ganges Mahamudra]]. Auckland, New Zealand: [[Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Trust]], 2002. (translation of "phyag chen gang+gA ma")

Sangyes Nyenpa Rinpoche. Tilopa’s Mahamudra Upadesha: The Gangama Instructions with Commentary. Translated by David Molk. Boston & London: Snow Lion Publica-tions/Shambhala, 2014.

Tiso, Francis, and Fabrizio Torricelli.  “The Tibetan Text of Tilopa’s Mahāmudro-padeśa.” East and West 41 (1991): 205–229.


see http://www.naturalawareness.net/ganges.html for translations by Ken McLeod, Ari Kiev, Chogyam Trungpa, Keith Dowman, Garma C.C. Chang, Yeshe Gyamtso,, Karl Brunnholzl, Rodney Devenish, and Lex Hixon. 

Published commentaries:

Thrangu Rinpoche teachings given in Vancouver BC in June 1998, published in Shenpen Osel, Vol 3, No 3 (Dec 1999)

Thrangu Rinpoche, The Life of Tilopa & The Ganges Mahamudra (Namo Buddha Publications & Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Publications, 2002)

Fifth Shamarpa Goncho Yenla (1525-1583) commentary published in: Straight from the Heart: Buddhist Pith Instructions, translated by Karl Brunnholzl (Snow Lion Publications, 2007)

Teaching by the Tenth Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche at Benchen Phuntsok Dharje Ling, Kathmandu Nepal. Transcript (in Tibetan) by Karma Lekshey Ling Institute.
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|volumeTranslator=Person:Callahan, E.
|introAuthor=Person:Callahan, E.
|translatorintro=Tilopa (c. 988–c. 1069) is often considered the first human guru in
the Marpa Kagyu lineage of mahāmudrā instructions. Although the
accounts of his life vary, all seem to agree that he was born into a brahman family in Sahor (in present-day Bangladesh). Some biographies say he entered the monastery of Somapura in northern Bangladesh or a charnel
ground of the same name, where he took monk vows and studied. All concur that he was urged by a ḍākinī to seek the ultimate instructions, though
they differ as to whether he studied with his human gurus before or after
he went to Oḍḍiyāna where he received the Cakrasaṃvara Aural Transmission from Jñānaḍākinī. He is said to have spent twelve years working for
the prostitute Bharimā at night and grinding sesame seeds by day, probably after he received instructions from his four human gurus and before he went to Oḍḍiyāna. During the last period of his life, when he was living as
a vagrant siddha, Nāropa found him and began his apprenticeship, undergoing twelve major and twelve minor hardships. This training culminated
in Nāropa’s attainment of realization and was the occasion for this song.<ref>2</ref>
Of the numerous songs and texts attributed to Tilopa, these instructions on mahāmudrā sung on the banks of the Ganges River to Nāropa are
probably his most famous and have been translated into English numerous
times. The paracanonical edition contained here was translated by Marpa
Lotsāwa. The canonical edition found in the Tengyur differs significantly
in both word choices and line order and does not state the translator in the
colophon, leading to suppositions that it was not translated by Marpa. As
Jan Sobisch remarks:

<blockquote>One of the most significant differences between the paracanonical and the canonical versions can be found in the structure of the text itself. It was a great surprise to discover the vast extent of structural intervention undertaken by the redactors of the canon. . . . One of the key features of this structure is that the [paracanonical] text directly introduces with 25 lines the nature of the mind to the yogis of highest capacity. The practice of individuals of lesser talents is relegated to the very end of the treatise, almost as an afterthought. The key feature of the structure of the canonical version, on the other hand, is that the text teaches (after the same brief advice to listen) first a gradual teaching of 28 lines before it offers an introduction to the nature of the mind. The chief structural intervention of the redactors of the canon is therefore that they change the very nature of the text, namely from being right from the beginning an upadeśa directly introducing individuals of the highest capacity to the nature of their mind, into being a gradual (rim gyis) introduction to the practice of mahāmudrā.

The second intervention of the editors of the canon is that they have changed the irregular pattern of the number of syllables per line into a regular pattern of nine syllables. . . . Thus, at some point there seems to have been an intention to streamline this teaching both in form and content, that is, it was made to fit a very widely used highly regular verse pattern, and it was adjusted to what we could almost call the “dogma of gradualism.”<ref>3</ref></blockquote>

The paracanonical editions have long been favored in the Kagyu traditions.
Pema Karpo included one in his Aural Transmission Collections, and
paracanonical editions are the basis for commentaries by Rangjung Dorje,
Shamar Könchok Yenlak, and the recently published ones by Thrangu Rinpoche and Sangyes Nyenpa Rinpoche.<ref>4</ref>

Given the differences between the paracanonical versions and the canonical ones, Draszczyk, in “Tilopa’s Upadeśa,” raises the possibility that Marpa was not the translator for all versions, though it may be, as Sobisch says
in “Paracanonical Tibetan Texts” and “Paracanonical Translation,” that the
editors of the Tengyur took a great deal of liberty and created a version more
in keeping with an orthodox gradual approach.

''Transmission lineage received by Jamgön Kongtrul''. Tilopa to Nāropa, Marpa
Lotsāwa, Milarepa, the unequaled Dakpo [Gampopa], Dusum Khyenpa,
Drogön Rechen, Pom Drakpa, Drupchen Pakshi, Nyenre, Rangjung Dorje,
Yung Tönpa, Rolpai Dorje, Khachö Wangpo, Dezhin Shekpa, Drung Mase
Lodrö Rinchen, Chöpal Yeshe, Lodrö Drakpa, Jatang Lodrö Gyatso, Döndrup Tashi, Lekshe Drayang, Lodrö Namgyal, Sangye Rinchen, Drung
Rinpoche Kunga Namgyal, Garwang Karma Tenkyong, Sönam Gyurme,
Könchok Tenzin, Drupgyu Tenpa Namgyal, Sungrap Gyatso, Chökyi
Jungne, Gelek Rapgye, Drung Gyurme Tenpal, Tenzin Gelek Nyima, and
Jamgön Kongtrul.5
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