Mipam Gyatso

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Mipam Gyatso

མི་ཕམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་

1846 – 1912

Ju Mipam Gyamtso was a prolific author who brought formal philosophical study, including debate, to the Nyingma tradition. Based in Kham during a period of great inter-sectarian exchange, he trained with the Kagyu lama Jamgön Kongtrul and the Sakya lama Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, among others, even as he preserved a strong Nyingma identity. Among his most celebrated works are the Beacon of Certainty and a commentary on the Ninth Chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra. In addition to his considerable literary output he spent decades of his life in retreat.

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མི་ཕམ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་འཇམ་དཔལ་དགྱེས་པའི་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཇུ་མི་ཕམ་mi pham 'jam dbyangs rnam rgyal rgya mtsho'jam dpal dgyes pa'i rdo rje'ju mi phammipham

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Classical Tibetan Authors

Student of

Jamyang Khyentse WangpoJamgön Kongtrul Lodrö TayePatrul RinpocheNyoshul Lungtok Tenpai NyimaDzogchen Drubwang4th

Teacher of

Kunzang PaldenNyoshul Lungtok Tenpai NyimaAdzom Drukpa Drodul Pawo DorjeLerab LingpaDodrupchen3rdZhechen Gyaltsab4thKhyentseDilgoTai Situpa11th

30 Authored & Translated Works

Library items authored or translated by Mipam Gyatso.

18 Works About Mipam Gyatso

Scholarship and editorial content in which this person is a subject rather than an author.

Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib རྙིང་མ་  

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Gtong len - A contemplative practice, particularly in the Tibetan tradition, where one visualizes taking on the suffering and negative actions of others and giving them one's own happiness, well-being, and merit. It is performed to enhance compassion (karuṇā) and develop the ultimate aspiration of bodhicitta. Tib གཏོང་ལེན་  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib ས་སྐྱ་  

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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Bodhicaryāvatāra [बोधिचर्यावतार]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [The Way of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3216 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3216&typ=2.

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