Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche teaches The Four-Session Guru Yoga, composed by the Eighth Karmapa Mikyo Dorje, from a commentary by Karma Chakme Rinpoche. This special edition includes the actual sadhana of Four-Session Guru Yoga by Mikyo Dorje and a CD with Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche chanting the sadhana.
Four-Session Guru Yoga, by the Eighth Gyalwang Karmapa Mikyo Dorje
Commentary by Karma Chakme Rinpoche as taught by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, and translated by Yeshe Gyamtso
February 2013
paperback & CD
7 x 10 in.,
ISBN: 978-1-934608-36-4
$19.95
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche teaches the Four-Session Guru Yoga, composed by the Eighth Karmapa Mikyo Dorje, from a commentary by Karma Chakme Rinpoche. This special edition includes the actual sadhana of Four-Session Guru Yoga by Mikyo Dorje and a CD with Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche chanting the sadhana.
The Four-Session Guru Yoga that we practice, composed by the Eighth Karmapa Mikyo Dorje, was based on an earlier guru yoga found in the writings of Lama Shangtsalpa’s (Lord Gampopa’s disciple) secret teachings that were sealed by command seal. Mikyo Dorje used this as the basis for his composition.
There is a commentary on this practice written by the Ninth Gyalwang Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje that is impracticably long. Chakme Rinpoche wrote his commentary because until that time there was no easily accessible commentary for doing Four-Session Guru Yoga. Chakme Rinpoche’s commentary presents the meditations and visualizations to be done at the various sections of the text. Khenpo Kathar Rinpoche’s commentary goes through Chakme Rinpoches explanation of the visualizations first, and then goes through the text word by word.