The Kagyü traditions were especially renowned for their intensive practice of meditation, and particularly the advanced tantric yogic practices known as the six yogas of Nāropa, as well as the advanced techniques for realizing the nature of mind known as Mahāmudrā. The latter are divided into tantra-based and sūtra-based techniques. While the tantra-based techniques are derived from the new higher yoga tantras imported from India, there is considerable evidence suggesting that the sūtra-based Mahāmudrā tradition was strongly influenced by the Chan teachings that entered Tibet from China during the eighth and ninth centuries. David Gray, Tibet and the Continent from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Centuries” in Handbook of Oriental Studies Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2011), 454.
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