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 Tantras 5
    • 2. Dohā for the People: Song That Is a Treasury of Dohās 15
      • Saraha
    • 3. Summary of Topics for the Glorious Saraha’s Dohā of Instructions 43
      • Parpuwa
    • 4. Treasury of Dohās: Esoteric Instructions on Mahāmudrā 53
      • Saraha
    • 5. Ganges Mahāmudrā: Esoteric Instructions on Mahāmudrā 63
      • 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 Mahāmudrā 85
      • Nāropa
    • 9. A Short, Lucid Commentary on the “Summary Verses on Mahāmudrā,” Emphasizing the Esoteric Instructions with Relevant Citations from the Tantras 91
      • Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
    • 10. Ten Stanzas on Suchness 111
      • 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 Saraha 115
      • Marpa
    • 12. The Root Text for Mahāmudrā: The Illumination of Wisdom 121
      • Milarepa
    • 13. Mahāmudrā: Path of a Single Stride 125
      • Gampopa
  • B. The Unshared Six Dharmas Cycle
    • 14. Truly Valid Words: The Esoteric Instructions of the Ḍākinī 131
      • Tilopa
    • 15. Vajra Verses of the Aural Transmission 173
      • Vajradhara
    • 16. Authoritative Texts in Verse: Mahāsiddha Nāropa’s Cycle on the Six Dharmas 193
      • Nāropa
    • 17. Esoteric Instructions on the Six Dharmas 221
      • Tilopa
    • 18. Vajra Song Summarizing the Six Dharmas: The Scholar-Mahāsiddha Nāropa’s Instructions to the Lord of Yogins Marpa 227
      • Nāropa
    • 19. The Three Cycles of Illumination and Other Instructions: Aural Transmissions Composed by Jetsun Milarepa 231
      • Milarepa
• II. The Instructions
  • A. The Abhiṣekas for Maturation
    • Introduction to the Abhiṣekas 257
    • 20. Net of Great Bliss: The Sādhana for the Dakpo Aural Transmission Tradition of the Glorious Cakrasaṃvara 269
      • Jamgön Kongtrul
    • 21. Saṃvara of Great Bliss: The Maṇḍala Ritual for the Dakpo Aural Transmission Tradition of the Glorious Cakrasaṃvara 303
      • Jamgön Kongtrul
    • 22. Vase of Amṛta: The Rituals for the Manifest Maṇḍala and Abhiṣekas of the Extensive Yum Ka of the Aural Transmission Sahajā 397
      • 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 Tradition 463
      • Jamgön Kongtrul
    • 24. Bindu of Great Bliss-Wisdom: The Sādhana for the Rechung Tradition of the Glorious Cakrasaṃvara 505
      • Jamgön Kongtrul
    • 25. Bloom of Great Bliss: The Maṇḍala Ritual for the Rechung Tradition of the Glorious Cakrasaṃvara 549
      • 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 Transmission 647
      • 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 Transmission 667
      • 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 Transmission 709
      • 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 Rechungpa 779
      • 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 Transmission 805
      • Milarepa
    • 32. The Instruction Manual on the Six Dharmas, Which Liberate through the Upper Door: The Perfection Process of the Saṃvara Aural Transmission 831
      • Milarepa
    • 33. Trulkhors for the Path of Method and the Caṇḍālī of the Saṃvara Aural Transmission 875
      • Marpa
    • 34. Eighteen Trulkhors for Caṇḍālī 883
      • Marpa