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Teachings and commentaries on
the Bodhi Path Mahamudra Curriculum
presented at the Bodhi Path Center in
Remetschwiel, Germany
August 2004
By Shamar Rinpoche
Day one: morning
Prayers to Buddha Shakyamuni and to Manjusri.
Introduction
The Bodhi Path Buddhist Centre of Remetschwiel has now been established. The main objective of the Centre is to give teachings on the many subjects in Buddhism in general, and the teachings of the Kagyüpa lineage of Buddhism.
Within the Kagyüpa lineage, two main streams of Buddhist practices are upheld. There is the lineage transmitted from Tilopa to Naropa of the Practice of the Six Yogas. The other is the lineage called the Mahamudra received from Saraha. Saraha transmitted it to Maitripa, the guru of Marpa. From Maitripa to Marpa, the transmission then continued to Milarepa and then to Gampopa.
Gampopa combined Mahamudra with Atisha's Lodjong practice, and taught it extensively. This combination, called the combined lineage of Kadampa and Mahamudra, thus became a very special lineage of Gampopa. Since then, it has been upheld as one of the main streams of teachings of all Kagyüpas.
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