Shri Diwakar Publications

Shri Diwakar Publications

Shri Diwakar Publications is a Buddhist publishing house in Kalimpong, India, founded in 2003 by the Fourteenth Shamar Rinpoche, Mipham Chökyi Lodrö (1952–2014), to preserve and reprint Buddhist texts. Shamar Rinpoche appointed Professor Sempa Dorje (ca. 1929–2022) as its president and chief editor, assisted by Khenpo Tsultrim Sangpo and Khenpo Mriti. Its publications include key texts of the Karma Kagyu tradition, an eighteen-volume collection of Mahāmudrā teachings edited by Shamar Rinpoche, and numerous works by Sempa Dorje himself. Among these are his commentary on the Śālistambasūtra, 'Phags pa sā lu'i ljang pa zhes bya ba'i mdo don legs par bshad pa blo gsal rna ba'i rgyan (2017), and his three-volume commentary on Śāntarakṣita's Tattvasaṃgraha. The press is known for its modern book layouts and careful editing of Tibetan texts.

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā. Skt महामुद्रा  Tib ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།  

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Śālistambasūtra [आर्यशालिस्तम्बनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa sA lu'i ljang pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་སཱ་ལུའི་ལྗང་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra "The Rice Seedling" (84000)]. Translated by Amoghavajra, Chih-ch'ien, Dānapāla. Kangyur, RKTSK 210 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=210&typ=1.

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