The Life and Works of Kyoton Monlam Tsultrim (Phuntsho 2023)

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The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim

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The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim publishes the collected works of the early Kadam master Kyoton in clear Uchen (dbu can) type based on the manuscripts in the Bka gdams gsung 'bum, which are very difficult to decipher in the old Ume (dbu med) scripts. The book contains many short works on buddha-nature and several other important subjects. It also includes a detailed introduction from Karma Phuntsho about the life and works of Kyotön. This publication was supported by Tsadra Foundation.

Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim, the abbot who led Narthang monastery at the peak of its history, was an illustrious figure of his time in Central Tibet. A resolute monk, a meditation master, a learned scholar, author, and public figure, he epitomized the high ideals, practices, and approaches of the Kadam school and championed its traditions of scriptural exegesis and meditation instructions. A Kadam luminary, he also left behind religious writings which hold great significance for Tibetan Buddhist scholarship and practice today.

The writings of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim appear in volume 50 of the second batch and volume 61 of the third batch of the Collected Works of Kadam series published in 2007 and 2009 by Paltsek Bodyig Penying Zhibjugkhang and Sichuan People's Publishing House. (Source: Karma Phuntsho, Preface, page iii.)

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Phuntsho, Karma, ed. སྐྱོ་སྟོན་སྨོན་ལམ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་མཛད་རྣམ་དང་གསུང་རྩོམ། The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim. Bhutan: Loden Foundation, 2023.

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Skyo ston smon lam tshul khrims (སྐྱོ་སྟོན་སྨོན་ལམ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་). slob dpon zhi ba lha nas brgyud pa'i byang chub kyi sems sbyong [སློབ་དཔོན་ཞི་བ་ལྷ་ནས་བརྒྱུད་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་སྦྱོང་།]. [The Practice of Bodhicitta in the Lineage that Hails from the Master Śāntideva].

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Kyotön Mönlam Tsultrim's guidance manual for Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya