Kemp, C.

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Translators
FirstName / namefirst	Casey
LastName / namelast	Forgues
MainNamePhon	Casey Forgues Kemp
SortName	Kemp, Casey
bio	Casey Kemp received her Master’s degree from Oxford University in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, and she has worked closely with the Drikung Kagyu monastic community in Europe and Asia. She is completing her PhD dissertation on the concept of luminosity in the early Tibetan Mahāmudrā tradition through the University of Vienna. She has translated and edited for 84000 and was Snow Lion editor at Shambhala Publications in Boulder until becoming Editorial Director of the Khyentse Vision Project.
associatedwebsite	https://www.khyentsevision.org/team/casey-forgues/ https://univie.academia.edu/CaseyKemp
affiliation	Shambhala Publications
phduniversity	Universität Wien
IsInGyatsa	No
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The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa.

In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas.

Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā.