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Machig Labdron, Machik's Complete Explanation: Clarifying the Meaning of Chod, trans. Sarah Harding

Scholarly translation, traditional namthar

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Sarah Harding's Machik's Complete Explanation, a scholarly translation of a traditional Tibetan namthar (life story) of Machig Labdron alongside her own teaching on Chod, is the standard English-language source for her biography and the practice she founded. Its strength is that it presents the tradition's own account of her life in a peer-reviewed scholarly translation with critical apparatus. Its limit is that the namthar genre is composed to instruct and inspire rather than to document, so its episodes carry the shape of hagiography rather than verified history.

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A scholarly translation of the tradition's own namthar life story, weighed against the hagiographic purpose of the genre it translates.
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Scholarly translation of a traditional Tibetan life story of Machig Labdron, Snow Lion Publications, 2003.
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Author
Machig Labdron (trans. Sarah Harding)
Publisher
Snow Lion Publications
Publication Year
2003
Source Type
Primary text in translation
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Machig Labdron, Figures

This source names Machig Labdron directly: "Tibetan namthar (life story) of Machig Labdron alongside her own teaching on Chod, is the standard English-language source for her biography and the practice she founded."

Source Machig Labdron, Machik's Complete Explanation: Clarifying the Meaning of Chod, trans. Sarah HardingMachig Labdron (trans. Sarah Harding)
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)

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  • Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Figures, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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