Dusum Khyenpa's Songs and Teachings

Title	Dusum Khyenpa’s Songs and Teachings
Sub-title	A Variety of Songs and Teachings from the First Karmapa’s Collected Works
Author	Translations, biography, and introduction by Tony Duff
Details	84 pages, 1 colour plate, 5.5" X 8.5", US$20, available in paper and PDF e-book formats
ISBN	paper book 978-9937-903-14-1, e-book 978-9937-572-20-0
Texts	Tibetan texts in Tibetan script included

The Collected Works of Dusum Khyenpa, the first Karmapa, consists of about four volumes of texts. It is very rare, almost non-existent. We managed to obtain a copy and save it from extinction. You can obtain a copy from our • free digital Tibetan texts page.

Much of Dusum Khyenpa’s Collected Works are taken up with complete sets of teachings on the various yidams of the Kagyu lineage that he received and practised. However, there is a small section containing eight dohas (spontaneous songs of spiritual realization) sung by Dusum Khyenpa. There is also a short text that gives the transmission of a specific Mahamudra teaching called “Mahamudra, the Thunderbolt”. We translated seven of the eight dohas and the Mahamudra teaching and put them together into a small book, for the sake of the many followers of the Karmapa and the Kagyu teachings in general.

As a matter of interest, we were amazed to find a text in Dusum Khyenpa’s Collected Works that gives specific details of how to do the practice called “Dead Entry”, a practice which was supposedly eliminated from the Kagyu transmission because of the dangers involved. It is often said that the teaching disappeared with Marpa the Translator but this entry in the Collected Works shows that it really was transmitted on through the lineage.

The book contains translations of the following texts:
Dohas two to nine of the doha collection in the Collected Works

	Mahamudra, The Thunderbolt
	Dohas two to nine of the doha collection in the Collected Works

Download Tibetan texts in TibetD format: The Collected Works of Dusum Khyenpa with all the texts in this book included is available from our • free digital Tibetan texts page.

Introduction
A Short Biography of the First Karmapa

A Variety of Songs and Teachings from the Collected Works of the First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa

Mahamudra, The Thunderbolt
Doha II from the Doha Collection
Doha III from the Doha Collection
Doha IV from the Doha Collection
Doha V from the Doha Collection
Doha VI from the Doha Collection
Doha VII from the Doha Collection
Doha VIII from the Doha Collection

Glossary of Terms
Supports for Study
Index