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.

Fundamental Mind: The Nyingma View of the Great Completeness, Mipam Gyamtso, comm. by Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay, trans. & ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins, Snow Lion Publications, Paperback, 170 pp, $18.95

Mi-pam-gya-tso (1846-1912) was a grest Nyingma yogi-scholar and one of the leaders of the Ri-me (nonsectarian) movement in eastern Tibet.

Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay is one of the few remaining Nyingma lamas trained in Tibet and capable of transmitting in complete form the special precepts of the Nyingma order. A lay priest and renowned yogi-scholar, he was trained in all four lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He is among the most senior lamas and Great Completeness masters in the Nyingma Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the most eminent Nyingma historian alive today.

Jeffrey Hopkins is a seminal and influential scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, he is the author and translator of over thirty-five books on Tibetan Buddhism.

	Contents: Fundamental Mind
	Preface	7
	Technical Note	11
	Biography of Mi-pam-gya-tso	13
	The Meaning of Fundamental Mind, Clear Light, Expressed in Accordance with the Transmission of Conqueror Knowledge-Bearer: Vajra Matrix	31
	Introduction	33
	1. Vajra Matrix	61
	2. Uncompounded Wisdom	71
	3. Refuting a Contrary View	99
	4. Distinctions	119
	Glossary	139
	List of Abbreviations	141
	Bibliography	143
	Endnotes	155
	Index	163