A Brief Exposition of Mahamudra by Maitripa

This is the first of two texts of mahamudra (Phyag-rGya Chen-Po), the great openness. It was composed by the famous Indian yogi Maitripa and transmitted directly to Marpa who gave it to his disciple Milarepa.

Translated by James Low and commented by him in East Sussex, 2021, Bremen 2012, Geneva, 2019, Freiburg, 2018.

Read the text in English here.

This text is Chapter 12 in Simply Being by James Low (Simply Being, UK, 2010) ISBN: ISBN 978 1907571015