Songs of realization
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Songs of realization, or Songs of Experience (
Although many of the songs of realization date from the
Caryagiti songs
A renowned collection of Buddhist caryagiti, or mystical songs, is the Charyapada, a palm-leaf manuscript of the 8th-12th century text having been found in the early 20th century in Nepal. Another copy of the Charyapada was preserved in the Tibetan Buddhist canon. Miranda Shaw describes how caryagiti were an element of the ritual gathering of practitioners in a tantric feast:
The feast culminates in the performance of tantric dances and music that must never be disclosed to outsiders. The revelers may also improvise "songs of realization" (caryagiti) to express their heightened clarity and blissful raptures in spontaneous verse.[4]
Doha songs
Ann Waldman describes this poetry form:
the doha, a song of realization that acknowledges an encounter with a master teacher, traditionally a guru or lama, and explores a particular wisdom or teaching transmitted through a kind of call-and-response duet format.[5]
An example of a Doha song available in English translation, is by
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-516640-8.
- ISBN 0-691-01090-0.
- ^ Gyamtso, Khenpo Tsultrim. "Songs of Realization". Retrieved 2008-09-14.
- ISBN 0-691-01090-0.
- ISBN 978-1-55643-203-3.
- Rangjung Dorje (root text); Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche (commentary); Peter Roberts (translator) (2001). Transcending Ego - Distinguishing Consciousness from Wisdom (Wylie: rnam shes ye shes ‘byed pa). Source: [1](accessed: Wednesday April 1, 2009)
Bibliography
Collections of songs of realization:
- Jackson, Roger (2004). Tantric Treasures:Three Collections of Mystical Verse from Buddhist India. USA: Oxford University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-19-516640-8.
- Dowman, Keith (1986). Masters of Mahamudra: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-four Buddhist Siddhas. New York: SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-88706-160-8.
- Milarepa: Songs on the Spot, translated by Nicole Riggs, Dharma Cloud Press, 2003, ISBN 0-9705639-30
- Milarepa, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, translated by Garma C.C. Chang, City Lights Books, 1999, ISBN 1-57062-476-3
- The Yogi's Joy: Songs of Milarepa Sangharakshita, Windhorse Publications, 2006, ISBN 1-899579-66-4
- Drinking the Mountain Stream: Songs of Tibet's Beloved Saint, Wisdom Publications, ISBN 0-86171-063-0
- Rinpoche, Thrangu (1997). Songs of Naropa:Commentaries on Songs of Realization. Rangjung Yeshe Publications. ISBN 978-962-7341-28-4.
- ISBN 0-394-73007-0
- Guenther, Herbert V.; Ecstatic Spontaneity: Saraha's Three Cycles of Doha Asian Humanities Press, 1993. ISBN 0-89581-933-3
External links
- Songs of the 16th Karmapa (1940 - 1962)
- Index to Songs, Poems and Prayers, by author
- Review of Tibetan Songs of Realization: Echoes from a Seventeenth-Century Scholar and Siddha in Amdo
- Text of 'Sixty Songs of Milarepa'
- Text, The Essential Songs of Milarepa
- The Iron Hook of Devotion: A Melodious Feast Song
- The Song of Mahamudra by Tilopa