Marpa Kagyu: Methods of Liberation (Callahan 2023)

I. The Cycle of Root Texts and Commentaries A. The Shared Mahāmudrā Cycle 1. The Unsullied State, A Monarch of Tantras5 2. Dohā for the People: Song That Is a Treasury of Dohās15 Saraha 3. Summary of Topics for the Glorious Saraha’s Dohā of Instructions43 Parpuwa 4. Treasury of Dohās: Esoteric Instructions on Mahāmudrā53 Saraha 5. Ganges Mahāmudrā: Esoteric Instructions on Mahāmudrā63 Tilopa 6. Outline for the “Ganges Mahāmudrā”71 Rang jung Dorje 7. Commentary on the “Ganges Mahāmudrā”73 Rang jung Dorje 8. Summary Verses on Mahāmudrā85 Nāropa 9. A Short, Lucid Commentary on the “Summary Verses on Mahāmudrā,” Emphasizing the Esoteric Instructions with Relevant Citations from the Tantras91 Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo 10. Ten Stanzas on Suchness111 Maitrīpa 11. Vajra Song on the Meaning of the Four Points: Instructions on the Ultimate Essence, the Mahāmudrā of Nonattention Heard by the Lord Marpa Lotsāwa from the Glorious Saraha115 Marpa 12. The Root Text for Mahāmudrā: The Illumination of Wisdom121 Milarepa 13. Mahāmudrā: Path of a Single Stride125 Gampopa B. The Unshared Six Dharmas Cycle 14. Truly Valid Words: The Esoteric Instructions of the Ḍākinī131 Tilopa 15. Vajra Verses of the Aural Transmission173 Vajradhara 16. Authoritative Texts in Verse: Mahāsiddha Nāropa’s Cycle on the Six Dharmas193 Nāropa 17. Esoteric Instructions on the Six Dharmas221 Tilopa 18. Vajra Song Summarizing the Six Dharmas: The Scholar-Mahāsiddha Nāropa’s Instructions to the Lord of Yogins Marpa227 Nāropa 19. The Three Cycles of Illumination and Other Instructions: Aural Transmissions Composed by Jetsun Milarepa231 Milarepa II. The Instructions A. The Abhiṣekas for Maturation Introduction to the Abhiṣekas257 20. Net of Great Bliss: The Sādhana for the Dakpo Aural Transmission Tradition of the Glorious Cakrasaṃvara269 Jamgön Kongtrul 21. Saṃvara of Great Bliss: The Maṇḍala Ritual for the Dakpo Aural Transmission Tradition of the Glorious Cakrasaṃvara303 Jamgön Kongtrul 22. Vase of Amṛta: The Rituals for the Manifest Maṇḍala and Abhiṣekas of the Extensive Yum Ka of the Aural Transmission Sahajā397 Kunga Namgyal 23. Arousing the Forces of Bliss and Heat: Procedures for the Blessings of the Skull-Cup Abhiṣeka, the Fire Cakra, Bestowed through the Thirteen Saṃvara Deities in the Maitrīpa Tradition463 Jamgön Kongtrul 24. Bindu of Great Bliss-Wisdom: The Sādhana for the Rechung Tradition of the Glorious Cakrasaṃvara505 Jamgön Kongtrul 25. Bloom of Great Bliss: The Maṇḍala Ritual for the Rechung Tradition of the Glorious Cakrasaṃvara549 Jamgön Kongtrul 26. Chariot of Profound, Secret Great Bliss: The Sādhana and Abhiṣekas for the Profound Symbolic Abhiṣeka of the Sahajā in the Jetsun Vajrayoginī Aural Transmission647 Tashi Özer 27. Excellent Padmarāga Vase: The Sādhana, Maṇḍala Ritual, and Abhiṣeka Rituals of the Sahajā, the Abbreviated Yum Ka from the Eight Common, Outer Maṇḍalas in the Rechung Tradition of the Saṃvara Aural Transmission667 Jamgön Kongtrul 28. Bindu Pleasing to the Heruka: The Sādhana, Maṇḍala Ritual, and Abhiṣeka Rituals for the Abbreviated Ngamdzong Tradition of the Saṃvara Ḍākinī Aural Transmission709 Jamgön Kongtrul B. The Actual Instruction Texts for Liberation 1. The Texts in the Dharma Cycles of the Root Aural Transmissions a. The Extensive Rechung Aural Transmission 29. The Short Text: The Wish-Fulfilling Gems of the Glorious Cakrasaṃvara Aural Transmission from the Tradition of Jetsun Rechungpa779 Tilopa 30. The Presentation of the Summary of Topics for “The Short Text: The Wish-Fulfilling Gems of the Aural Transmission”799 Zhang Lotsāwa 31. The Instruction Manual for the Shared Wish-Fulfilling Gems: The Practices Connected with the Vase Abhiṣeka from the Glorious Saṃvara Aural Transmission805 Milarepa 32. The Instruction Manual on the Six Dharmas, Which Liberate through the Upper Door: The Perfection Process of the Saṃvara Aural Transmission831 Milarepa 33. Trulkhors for the Path of Method and the Caṇḍālī of the Saṃvara Aural Transmission875 Marpa 34. Eighteen Trulkhors for Caṇḍālī883 Marpa