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Garland of Jewels: The Eight Great Bodhisattvas, by Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, Translated by Yeshe Gyamtso
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Translator's Introduction
This book is a translation of a collection of stories about the eight great bodhisattvas. These stories are all taken from sutras and tantras taught by the Buddha, such as the Avatamsaka and the Lotus Sutras. They were collected and edited by the great Buddhist teacher Mipham Namgyal (1846 - 1912). Mipham was one of the greatest teachers in Tibet of his time, and his writings remain the basis for much of the study conducted by his own tradition, the Nyingma school of Buddhism, and by other traditions such as the Karma Kagyu.
In writing his book, Mipham combined edited extracts from his sources with his own writing about his subject. He wove the two together so skillfully that it is often not immediately obvious where the extract ends and his comments begin. Often he summarized long passages. He also omitted some of the sutras didactic material in order to emphasize the stories he wanted to tell. Although we typically think of Buddhist sutras as teachings accompanied by sparing narrative, we discover in this book that the great sutras of the mahayana are repositories of extraordinary accounts of miracles and great deeds performed by buddhas and bodhisattvas.
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Adornment of the Middle Way
By: Shantarakshita & Jamgon Mipham
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Embedded in these stanzas are the guideposts to enlightenment, composed in verse to help those students who have received instruction to commit it to memory. Jamgon Mipham's commentary offers a thorough and authoritative explanation of Shantarakshita's meaning.
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Calm and Clear
By: Lama Mipham, Tarthang Tulku
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In search for the nature of reality, "The Wheel of Analytic Meditation" employs a traditional Buddhist analysis of the body and mind to dissolve conditioned concepts and unexamined assumptions which inhibit deep understanding. "Instructions on Vision in the Middle Way" is a continuation text which is intended to lead the serious student step-by-step in the practice of meditation.
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Fundamental Mind: The Nyingma View of the Great Completeness
By:Mi-pam-gya-tso, comm. by Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay, tr. & ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins
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The combination of topic, well-known authors, and accessible presentation of the material should make this an important book for practitioners. Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay provides an illuminating, expansive, and practical commentary on Mi-pam-gya-tso's incisive work on the Great Completeness view of ultimate reality, called Three Cycles on Fundamental Mind.
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Gateway to Knowledge: Vol 1
By: Mipham Rinpoche
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The Gateway to Knowledge is a condensation of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries. Consolidating the intent of Buddha Shakyamunis teachings into unified body of text books, it is the philosophical backbone of the living tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. This rich source book embodies the basics of Prajnaparamita and Madhyamika as well as the Abhidharma from both the Mahayana and Hinayana perspective.
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Gateway to Knowledge: Vol 2
By: Mipham Rinpoche
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The Gateway to Knowledge is a condensation of the Tripitaka and its accompanying commentaries. Consolidating the intent of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings into a unified body of text books, it is the philosophical backbone of the living tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Volume II of this rich source book elucidates the Four Noble Truths. Every volume in this series includes Tibetan text and the English translation on facing pages.
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Gateway to Knowledge: Vol. 3
By: Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche
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Volume III of this rich source book elucidates Mahayana and emptiness.
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Golden Zephyr
By: Nagarjuna & Mipham Rinpoche
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From two time-honored Buddhist masters come these practical instructions for pursuing a spiritual path. Golden Zephyr is a step-by-step outline of the vast scope of Buddhist teachings. The book offers translations from the original Tibetan of two classical works, Nagarjuna's "A Letter to a Friend" and Lama Mipham's commentary, 'The Garland of White Lotus Flowers."
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Introduction to the Middle Way
By: Chandrakirti / Ju Mipham
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Introduction to the Middle Way presents an adventure into the heart of Buddhist wisdom through the Madhyamika, or middle way, teachings, which are designed to take the ordinary intellect to the limit of its powers and then to show that there is more. This book includes a verse translation of the Madhyamakavatara by the renowned seventh-century Indian master Chandrakirti, an extremely influential text of Mahayana Buddhism, followed by an exhaustive logical explanation of its meaning by the modern Tibetan master Jamgon Mipham.
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Lama Mipam's Commentary to Nagarjuna's Stanzas For a Novice Monk
By: Nagarjuna, Je TsongKhapa, Mipham
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Also Je Tsong Khapa's Essence of the Ocean of Vinaya
These two works concern the Vinaya, or system of self-discipline, which is considered of vital importance in monastic training. These texts focus on the Vinaya as it is taught to young novice monks. The first work is Nagarjuna's Stanzas for a Novice Monk, presented with a commentary by the 19ht century Nyingma lama, Jamyang Mipam Rinpoche. The second work, Essence of the Ocean of Vinaya, was composed in the 14th century by the great Je Tsong Khapa and concerns the eight fundamental categories of the pratimoksha vows.
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Maitreya's Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being
By: Maitreya, Ju Mipham Rinpoche
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Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being was composed by Maitreya during the golden age of Indian Buddhism. Mipham's commentary cogently supports Maitreya's text in a detailed analysis of how ordinary confused consciousness can be transformed into wisdom. Precise and detailed instructions guide the reader through the incredibly profound meditation that gradually brings about this transformation.
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Middle Way Meditation Instructions of Mipham Rinpoche
By: Thrangu Rinpoche
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In this exposition, Mipham Rinpoche explains the meditation techniques for developing compassion and expanding this state into aspiration of bodhicitta. Having reached the clarity of this vision prajna begins to manifest. This text gives a detailed explanation of how one meditates to develop this wisdom. While all three vehicles were practiced in Tibet, the Middle-Way Instructions are life the background of a tapestry that allows the integration and display of its parts into a whole.
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Mipham's Beacon of Certainty; lluminating the View of Dzogchen The Great Perfection
By: Pettit, John W.
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Lama Mipham was a great Nyingma scholar of the nineteenth century who wrote a prodigious number of works on all subjects, including numerous brilliant commentaries on both sutra and tantra. His work translated here by John Whitney Pettit as the Beacon of Certainty is particularly famous and is one of the most beneficial for clearing away confusion and doubt regarding views, paths, and meditation.
It is my earnest hope that John Pettit's translation will bring great benefit to foreign students and scholars in the study of both philosophy and meditation practice.
This work is valuable indeed. I pray that all sentient beings may benefit from this text and ultimately attain enlightenment.
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Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness
By: Karma Phuntso
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To be, not to be or neither
The book focuses on related issues such as what is negated by the doctrine of Emptiness, the nature of ultimate reality and the difference between eextrinsic' and eintrinsicf emptiness. These issues continue to be the subject of lively debate among contemporary exponents of Tibetan Buddhist thought. Karma Phuntsofs book aptly undertakes a thematic and selective discussion of these debates and Miphamfs qualms about the Gelukpa understanding of Emptiness in a mixture of narrative and analytic styles. For the first time, a major understanding of Emptiness, variant to the Gelukpa interpretation that has become dominant in both Tibet and the West, is revealed.
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Open Door to Emptiness: A Discussion of Madhyamaka Logic
By: Thrangu Rinpoche
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One of the most important concepts of Buddhism is the understanding of emptiness, or more precisely why all internal thoughts and feelings and also all external objects are empty. As Rinpoche explains, things do obviously appear to be solid and existent, but it can also be shown that they are empty of any inherent existence. If we do not understand the empty nature of phenomena, we really cannot thoroughly practice the reduction of attachment that we have with the phenomenal world.
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Reflexive Nature of Awareness
By: Williams, Paul
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Tibetan Madhyamaka Defence
According to the Tibetan Tsong kha pa one of the eight difficult points in understanding Madhyamaka philosophy is the way in which Prasangika Madhyamaka does not accept even conventionally that reflexivity is an essential part of awareness- that in being aware there is also an awareness of being aware. One of the most systematic and detailed refutations of Tsong kha pas approach to this issue can be found in the commentary to the ninth chapter of the Bodhicaryavatara by the rNying ma lama Mi pham (1846-1912), together with Mi phams own replies to his subsequent critics. In the course of this Mi pham reveals a vision of what is going on in Madhyamaka which is rather different from the more familiar Tibetan approach of Tsong kha pa.
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Speech of Delight, Mipham's Commentary on Shantarakshita's Ornament of the Middle Way
By: Shantarakshita, Ju Mipham Rinpoche
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Mipham's Commentary on Shantarakshita's Ornament of the Middle Way
Shantarakshita's Madhyamakalamkara is a condensed presentation of later India "Middle Way" philosophy and is structured around one recurring theme, namely, the impossibility of entities being consistently analyzable as either single individuals (i.e., wholes) or plural comsposites (parts). In contrast to Shantarakshita's encyclopedic and multifaceted treatment of Indian philosophy in his well-known Tattvasamgraha, the tour de force of his Madhyamakalamkara is to see all the seemingly diverse Buddhist and non-Buddhist ontoligies as hinging on failed attempts to solve part-whole problems.
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White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava
Jamgon Mipham
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White Lotus is a profound commentary on a famous prayer that is practiced daily by many Tibetan Buddhists. The Seven-Line Prayer is said to contain the most sacred and important teachings of Dzogchen. This commentary provides an explication of the meaning of this sacred verse on many levelsthe students understanding of those meanings ripens and deepens with study and contemplation. The commentarys author, Jamgn Mipham, is a celebrated nineteenth-century Tibetan Buddhist scholar who was known for his prolific, lucid, and original writings on many subjects, including science, medicine, and philosophyin addition to Buddhist practice and theory. Because of Miphams brilliance and comprehensive approach, his writings are still pertinent and popularly read today. His translated works are eagerly anticipated by English-language readers.
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