Karma Kagyu Reading List?

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Karma Kagyu Reading List?

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Hello!

I am currently researching Karma Kagyu Buddhism, but really am not sure where to start.

I am most interested in:
1. History
2. Practices
3. Lineage
4. Symbolism
5. Clothing

Does anyone know good resources to find any or all of these? I have searched through the forum but have not come up with anything.

Thanks so much!!!!!!
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Maybe a good start would be

HISTORY

History Of The Karmapas - a wonderful book!
http://tinyurl.com/nxlnbqx
The Great Kagyu Masters: The Golden Lineage Treasury
http://tinyurl.com/khs9dyg

PRACTICE

Gems of Dharma, Jewels of Freedom - Gampopa's classic Lamrim text - highly recommended!!
http://tinyurl.com/m6bcs9g
Mahamudra and Related Instructions - highly recommended!!!
http://tinyurl.com/kj49bre
Mahamudra: The Moonlight - Quintessence of Mind and Meditation - this is a treasure!
http://tinyurl.com/lnmxw9t
Pointing Out the Great Way: The Stages of Meditation in the Mahamudra Tradition
http://tinyurl.com/mwohlh3
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Some basic info here, look under the "Kagyu Lineage" tab. Also, the Wiki entry under "Kagyu" isn't too bad for a general overview.
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The Jewel Ornament of Liberation by Gampopa (the Karma Kagyu bible!).
The Torch of Certainty by Jamgon Kongtrul (classic explanatory text on the preliminaries).
The Hundred-Thousand Songs of Milarepa (Milarepa at his finest).
Tantric Treasures: Three Collections of Mystical Verse from Buddhist India (to get a taste of what the early masters Tilopa and Saraha were all about).
"My religion is not deceiving myself."
Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE

"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."
The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde
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Thank you all very much!!!! :thanks:
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I believe it appropriate here to mention that the Naropa & Mila stories were very harmful to my practice. They set me back decades, really. Tibetans find them inspiring. I find them horrifying. Because of my acute cowardice in my approach to practice, I have had to dismiss them as not relevant to how I go about it. Mila would probably be ashamed of me, but that is the best that I can do...
1.The problem isn’t ‘ignorance’. The problem is the mind you have right now. (H.H. Karmapa XVII @NYC 2/4/18)
2. I support Mingyur R and HHDL in their positions against lama abuse.
3. Student: Lama, I thought I might die but then I realized that the 3 Jewels would protect me.
Lama: Even If you had died the 3 Jewels would still have protected you. (DW post by Fortyeightvows)
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More here
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plwk wrote:More here
:woohoo:

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