The Short Vajradhara Prayer: A Teaching on the Lineage and Sustaining One's Nature - Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje - Bog

"The Vajradhara Lineage Prayer (Dorje Chang Tungma) is probably the most well-known of the Kagyu prayers, traditionally recited before teaching sessions and often recited by practitioners as part of their daily practice. ... In so many ways, it is much more than an ordinary prayer. It includes all the important stages of the training in mahamudra: revulsion at samsara, renunciation, devotion to the guru, undistracted meditation, and so forth. As such, it is like a pith instruction. From the Preface by Ogyen Trinley, Karmapa"--