Dusum Khyenpa's Songs and Teachings: A Variety of Songs and Teachings from the First Karmapa's Collected Works

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 purchase a copy from us at our electronic texts for sale; to the best of our knowledge it is the only place from which it can be obtained). 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