12 Facts About Mahamudra

The practice of Mahamudra is known as the teaching called "Sahajayoga" or "Co-emergence Yoga".

Mahamudra was not created or invented by anybody; therefore it cannot be destroyed.

Tilopa's "Ganges Mahamudra" song is a widely taught short mahamudra text.

Mahamudra composed commentaries on the buddhist dohas, and his works include a collection of 26 texts on "non-conceptual realization", which are a key Indian source of mahamudra teachings that blend sutra and tantra and teach an instantaneous approach to awakening.

Mahamudra's student, Asu, was a teacher of Rechungpa, one of Milarepa's pupils.

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Mahamudra is most well known as a teaching within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Mahamudra is responsible for much of the development of Kagyu monastic institutions and for recording the teachings of the lineage in writing.

Mahamudra synthesized the Mahayana Kadam teachings with the tantric teachings he received from Milarepa and developed a unique system of mahamudra which he often taught without tantric empowerment, relying instead on guru yoga.

Mahamudra is defined by Gampopa as "the realization of the natural state as awareness-emptiness, absolutely clear and transparent, without root".

However, in his account, sutra Mahamudra is particularly associated with a gradual path and his presentation of insight practice is uniquely Gelug.

Yongdzin Yeshe Gyaltsen composed a commentary on Chokyi Gyaltsen's Mahamudra text, entitled "The Lamp of the Clear and Excellent Path of the Oral Tradition Lineage" .

Gelug sutra Mahamudra, as presented by Chokyi Gyaltsen, practices a unique Gelug style of doing vipasyana, based primarily on Gelug Madhyamaka.