Essential commentary on the spontaneous mystical songs of the Indian Buddhist rebel-saint Virupa.

In this collection, renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Migmar Tseten provides essential commentary on the mystical songs of the Indian Buddhist rebel-saint Virupa. One of the most celebrated tantric masters of Buddhist India, Virupa's songs describe his realization of mahamudra, the ultimate nature of reality. Intimate and highly engaging, The Play of Mahamudra unpacks these songs with meticulous clarity, making Virupa's insights accessible to modern readers.

"This new collected edition of Khenpo Migmar Tseten's Play of Mahamudra volumes constitutes a veritable treasure for all who are deeply engaged on the path to enlightenment. Khenpo Migmar's translation of Mahasiddha Virupa's Treasury of Dohas and of Sachen Kunga Nyingpo's Praise to Virupa makes us intimately familiar with the essence of these root texts, and his elucidation of the Dohas offers us a deep and clear understanding of their core meaning. Anyone who truly contemplates on Mahasiddha Virupa's words is certain to attain realization."
--His Holiness the Sakya Trichen
The Play of Mahamudra: Spontaneous Teachings on Virupa's Mystical Song, Lama Migmar Tseten, Wisdom Publications, Paperback, 336 pp, $24.95

Lama Migmar Tseten has served as Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University since 1997. He received both a traditional and a contemporary education in India, graduating from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies at Sanskrit University in Varanasi. He served as the head of the Sakya Center in Rajpur, India, and the Sakya Monastery in Puruwalla. Lama Migmar has supervised the editing and publication of more than fifty rare volumes of Sakya literature and is the author of many books, including Awakening to the Noble Truth and The Tibetan Book of Awakening. As the founder of the Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lama Migmar leads retreats throughout North America and Europe.

CONTENTS: The Play of Mahamudra
	Preface		vii
1.	Completely Pure by Nature, Like Space		1
2.	Not Eternal, Not Annihilated		15
3.	Not Apparent, Not Empty		27
4.	Not Real, Not Unreal, Not Nonarising		39
5.	Not Beyond Mind		49
6.	Also Not Nonbeing		63
7.	Those False Horns of a Rabbit		73
8.	Innate from the Beginning, Not to Be Sought Elsewhere		87
9.	Empty Throughout All Time and Always Selfless		101
10.	The Play of Mahamudra, the Original Dharmata		113
11.	Connected with the Sublime Guru		123
12.	Since One Is Free from All Attachment		137
13.	Thoughts Arise in the Mind Like a Stream		151
14.	Rest in the Undistracted State		163
15.	Though It Seems a Particle Is in the Eye		177
16.	Just As a Good Horse Is Encouraged		193
17.	Giving Up Nothing, Accomplishing Nothing		205
18.	Give Up Attachment and Aversion		219
19.	Think on the Great Benefit of Migrating Beings		233
20.	Difference Is Liberated in Its Own State		247
21.	Since Realism Is Destroyed in Its Own State		247
22.	Who Realizes Selflessness?		271
23.	Nothing Exists in Peaceful and Pure Space		281
	Appendix 1.	Complete Translation of Virupa's Treasury of Dohas	293
	Appendix 2.	Complete Translation of Sachen Kunga Nyingpo's Praise to Virupa	201
	Index		305
	About the Author		323