Mahamudra
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Encyclopedic overview
28 sectionsContents
- History
- Etymology
- Indian sources
- Tibetan traditions
- Kagyu tradition
- Three types of teaching
- As a path beyond sutra and tantra
- Kagyu lineages
- Sakya tradition
- Gelug tradition
- Practices and methods
- Four yogas and five paths
- Ordinary meditation practices
- Śamatha
- Vipaśyanā
- Extraordinary meditation practices
- One taste
- Nonmeditation
- Main source texts
- Indian works
- Tibetan works
- Six Words of Advice
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Works cited
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|270px|Seal design with the word Mahāmudrā ("great seal") in Mongolian 'Phags-pa script
Mahāmudrā (Sanskrit: महामुद्रा, , contraction of ) literally means "great seal" or "great imprint" and refers to the notion that "all phenomena inevitably are stamped by the fact of wisdom and emptiness inseparable". Mahāmudrā is a multivalent term of great importance in later Indian Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism which "also occurs occasionally in Hindu and East Asian Buddhist esotericism."
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