Self-Awareness ( rang rig ) and Nondual Presence: Tibetan Mahāmudrā and a Christian-Adjacent Correlation
Buddhist-Christian Studies 2026 Matthew Z. Vale
abstract: This article brings together authorities in the Tibetan Mahāmudrā (“Great Seal”) tradition of the Kagyü school with a contemporary, Christian-adjacent account of mind and consciousness, drawn from the psychologist and theologian Daniel Helminiak. It draws them together on the basis of their shared affirmation that conscious states and operations are intrinsically and nontransitively...