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and mahāmudrā lineage whose main practice is known as the fivefold mahāmudrā consisting of refuge and bodhicitta, deity yoga, guru yoga, mahamudra meditation

The Mahāmudrā teachings from Saraha that Maitripa transmitted to Marpa include the "Essence Mahāmudrā" (Wylie: snying po'i phyag chen) where Mahāmudrā is

differently in the mahāmudrā tradition as practiced in the Kagyu lineage. As Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche explains, In the practice of Mahamudra tranquility meditation

imagination, and projection. Mahāmudrā is sometimes divided into four distinct phases known as the four yogas of mahāmudrā. They are as follows: One-pointedness;

only person in his day to do so. In addition to the way of insight and Mahamudra, Tilopa learned and passed on the Way of Methods (today known as the Six

parts of the body. Examples of this diversity of mudras are Mula Bandha, Mahamudra, Viparita Karani, Khecarī mudrā, and Vajroli mudra. These expanded in

Maitrīpa), was a prominent Indian Buddhist Mahasiddha associated with the Mahāmudrā transmission of tantric Buddhism. His teachers were Shavaripa and Naropa

part of the tantric yogas (for example, in the "Fivefold Mahāmudrā" method). In Sakya, Mahāmudrā is the culmination and the goal of the practice of the

from that environment. Chapters 11–14 describe the practice of yoga. Mahāmudrā, the "great seal", together with Mahābandha, the "great lock", and the

Mahamudra is a hatha yoga gesture (mudra) whose purpose is to improve control over the sexual potential. The sexual potential, associated with apana,