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    <title>Mahāmudrā eliminating the darkness of ignorance</title>
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    <title>Phyag chen ma rig mun sel. English</title>
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    <title>Fifty stanzas of Guru-devotion</title>
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  <titleInfo type="alternative">
    <title>Guide to Ka gyü Mahāmudrā and Guru-yoga</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Dbang-phyug-rdo-rje</namePart>
    <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Karma-pa IX</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1556-1603</namePart>
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    <namePart>Be-ru Mkhyen-brtse</namePart>
    <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Rinpoche</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1947-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Ngawang Dhargyey</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1925-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Berzin, Alexander.</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1995</dateIssued>
    <edition>4th edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>176 pages ; 22 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>Mahamudra, or the Great Seal, refers to a Mahayana Buddhist system of meditation on the nature of the mind and is undertaken for realizing Enlightenment. This text, by the Ninth Karmapa (1556-1603), is one of the most famous expositions of this meditational system.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">the Ninth Kar-ma-pa Wang-chʾug Dor-je ; with commentary given orally by Beru Khyentze Rinpoche. And Fifty stanzas of guru-devotion / by Aśvaghoṣa ; with commentary given orally by Ngawang Dhargyey ; translated from Tibetan, edited, and prepared by Alexander Berzin.</note>
  <note>Translations of: Phyag chen ma rig mun sel; and Gurupañcāśikā.</note>
  <note>Subtitle: A guide to Ka gyü Mahāmudrā and Guru-yoga.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
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      <title>Mahāmudrā (Tantric rite)</title>
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    <topic>Meditation</topic>
    <topic>Buddhism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Tantric Buddhism</topic>
    <topic>Doctrines</topic>
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