Jim Rheingans Knihy

The book offers a historical analysis of Karma phrin las pa's life and writings, exploring his spiritual roles and titles within the context of his era. It utilizes Tibetan hagiographies, a comprehensive collection of his works—including colophons—genealogies, letters, teachings, religious chronicles, and biographies of contemporaries to provide a thorough understanding of his influence and significance.

This book investigates Mikyö Dorje’s biographies and carries out case studies of some of his mahamudra (Great Seal) teachings, Buddhist instructions for the acquisition of meditative insight. After surveying a variety of textual sources for the study of the Karmapa’s life and works, this book shows how he developed into one of the most productive scholars of his tradition, who, located within the shifting religious and political hegemonies of his time, managed to acquire a status of singular importance to his school. Rheingans then goes on to analyse Mikyö Dorje’s mahamudra teachings by examining selected texts that contain such instructions in historical and doctrinal context. This study contends that the Kagyüpa mahamudra constitutes less a static system than an independent key instruction to be adapted by the guru to different students’ requirements and are thus chiefly characterised by didactic pragmatism.