lineage, and, depending on the sources, either the sister or spiritual consort of Nāropa. The second Dalai Lama, Gendun Gyatso has compiled a work on these yogas. Niguma transmitted her teachings to yogini Sukhasiddhī and then to Khyungpu Neldjor, the founder of the Shangpa Kagyu lineage. A translator and teacher in the lineage, Lama Sarah Harding, has published a book about Niguma and the core role her teachings such as the six dharmas of Niguma have played in the development of the Shangpa Kagyu lineage. In the lineage of Machig Labdron, the practice of Mahamudra Chöd begins with The Yoga of the Transference of Consciousness. See also Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead) Tsa lung Trul khor (Tibetan Yoga) Notes Sources Guenther, Herbert V. (1963). The Life and Teaching of Naropa, Oxford University Press. Kragh, Ulrich Timme (2015) Tibetan Yoga and Mysticism A Textual Study of the Yogas of Naropa and Mahamudra Meditation in the Medieval Tradition of Dags po. Tokyo: International Institute for Buddhist Studies (Studia Philologica Buddhica). Wangyal, Tenzin (1998) The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, Snow Lion Publications. Mullin, Glenn H.; Tsong-Kha-Pa, (2005) The Six Yogas Of Naropa, Tsongkhapa's Commentary Entitled A Book Of Three Inspirations A Treatise on the Stages Of Training in the Profound Path Of Naro's Six Dharmas, Snow Lion Publications. Mullin, Glenn H. (1997) Readings on the Six Yogas of Naropa, Snow Lion Publications. Harding, Lama Sarah (2012) Niguma, Lady of Illusion (Tsadra Foundation). Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications. Roberts, Peter Alan (translator) (2011) Mahamudra and Related Instructions: Core Teachings of the Kagyu Schools. Library of Tibetan Classics. Wisdom Publications. External links The Art of Dying: Esoteric Instructions on Death and Liberation Literature from the Tibetan Tradition Relevant to Six Yogas of Naropa Practitioners - An Annotated Bibliography and Selected Excerpts Kagyu Buddhist meditation Tibetan Buddhist practices Buddhist tantras Tantric practices