Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly

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is an assistant professor of religion and cultural studies at the University of Central Florida. In April 2017 she received the University Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. She completed her PhD in religious studies at Rice University in 2010, focusing on Buddhism and Hinduism in modernity. Her forthcoming book about current trends in

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The Swift Path to Buddhahood
THERE IS A LEGEND of a female master, Machik Jobum, who lived sometime in the eleventh to twelfth century. After experiencing severe illness, her father taught her the Six Dharmas (Tibetan: Naro Chodruk), a series of meditations for accomplishing swi
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THE CHÖD TRADITION developed by the female Tibetan adept Machik Labdrön in the eleventh and twelfth centuries is a practice aimed at cutting (chod) one’s attachment to the idea of a self through ritualized meditative practices that involve specific m
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A Wake-Up Call
OF THE SIX Dharmas of Naropa, two are for the daytime (tummo/chandali and illusory form, or gyulu), two are for the night (milam, or dream dharma and osel, luminosity yoga), and two are for death and beyond (bardo yoga and phowa). Phowa and bardo yog

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