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མཆིམས་ཀྱི་བློ་སྦྱོང་ཐུན་གཅིག་མ།
Chim (Namkha Drak)'s Mind Training in a Single Session
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In the Lhasa edition of the Tibetan original, there is no title for this text. In its place, the editor provides the following brief note: "This is the mind training of Chim. I have received the oral transmission." This is then followed by an additional note that reads, "I do not have the oral transmission for this: I must search for it again." This second note was probably inserted by a later editor. . . . Shönu Gyalchok (Compendium of Well-Uttered Insights, p. 245) also refers to this short work as "the mind training composed by the great Chim."
Chim Namkha Drak was one of the most well-known Kadam masters of [the] thirteenth century. A student of the famous Kadam teacher Sangyé Gompa, the author of Public Explication of Mind Training . . . , Chim became the seventh abbot of Narthang Monastery, occupying the throne for thirty-six years. His students include, among others, the renowned Chomden Rikral and the Sakya patriarch Phakmodrupa, who later became the ruler of Tibet. Among his most famous works are the "Standard Biography of Atiśa" (which can be found in The Book of Kadam), a commentary on Atiśa's Bodhipathapradīpa (Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment), and an exposition of Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośa, the latter two no longer extant. A succinct biography of Chim can be found in Lechen Künga Gyaltsen's Lamp Illuminating the History of the Kadam Tradition, p. 255a-b. (Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection, 609–10n384)
| Reference | mchims kyi blo sbyong thun gcig ma [མཆིམས་ཀྱི་བློ་སྦྱོང་ཐུན་གཅིག་མ།]. [Chim (Namkha Drak)'s Mind Training in a Single Session]. |
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| People | Chim Namkha Drakpa |
