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Enlightened Vagabond: The Life and Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche.

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Influence and Reception of Śāntideva's Works in India and Beyond

• A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati
• An Argument for Cittamātra: Reflections on Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:28 (Tib. 27) cd
• Atiśa's Introduction to the Two Truths, and Its Sources
• Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra als Lehrschrift und Vorhaben: Zum Thema Ritual, Religion, Philosophie und Mystik im Buddhismus
• Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:2 as a Focus for Tibetan Interpretations of the Two Truths in the Prāsangika Mādhyamika
• Bodhicaryāvatāra and Bodhicaryāvatāra-Pañjikā (Malalasekera)
• Bodhicaryāvatāra and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong)
• Bodhicaryāvatāra no kihon seikaku: Ichininshō no imi suru mono
• Bodhicharyavatara (Rigpa Shedra Wiki)
• Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Exposition de la pratique des bodhisattvas
• Bu ston and the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravyākhyāna (-pañjikā)
• Characteristics of the Buddhist Mongolian Texts: The Lineage of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Commentaries on Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Ejima 1966)
• Die "Vollkommenheiten" im BCA und seinen tibetischen Kommentaren
• Die Lehre von Satyadvaya in 'Ju Mi phams Nor bu ke ta ka
• Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
• Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna's Commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Emptiness and Moral Perfection
• Enlightened Vagabond
• Epitome of the Bodhicaryāvatāra with Its Pañjikā, Chap. IX
• General Introduction: Śāntideva and His World
• Gser gling pa's Bodhisattvacaryāvatārapiṇḍārtha and Its Thought
• Identifying the Object of Negation: On Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:140 (Tib. 139)
• Introduction to Gzhan gyis brtsad pa'i lan mdor bsdus pa rigs lam rab gsal de nyid snang byed: An Answer to Blo-bzang-rab-gsal's Refutation of the Author's 'Sher le nor bu ke ta ka' and Its Defence, the Brgal lan nyin byed snang ba
• Jitāri, Śāntideva and Prabhākarakīrti
• Le commentaire de Mi-pham au chapitre IX du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva: Échos modernes d'une controverse du XVème siècle
• Making and Remaking the Ultimate in Early Tibetan Readings of Śāntideva
• Mi pham and the Philosophical Controversies of the Nineteenth Century
• Nachlese zum Mongolischen Turfanfragment des Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Nichtselbst, Leerheit und Altruistische Ethik im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Lecture Transcript)
• Nichtselbst, Leerheit und Altruistische Ethik im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Official Publication)
• Notes on the Deśanā-ritual in the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Evidence of Its Revision
• Nyubosatsugyō-ron kaisetsu saisho no Shyāntidēva rikai
• On Agama and Yukti in Bu ston's Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i 'grel pa
• On Prakṛtinirvāṇa-Prakṛtinirvṛta in the Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Study in the Indo-Tibetan Commentarial Tradition
• On the Role of Vairocanarakṣita in the Later Transmission Period: A Cross-section of the "Bodhisattva theory" Tradition
• On the Sanskrit Manuscript of the Śikṣāsamuccaya
• On the Textual Problems of Śāntideva's Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra: With Special Reference to Chapter 9 Entitled "Perfection of Wisdom (Prajñāpāramitā)"
• On Śāntideva's Position in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
• One Aspect of the Acceptance of the Bodhisattva-śīla in Tibet
• Polemics in Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism - A Late 19th-Century Debate Between 'Ju Mi pham and Dpa' ris Rab gsal
• Proof of the Authenticity of the Mahāyāna in Akṣayamati's Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
• Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice-Review by Harris
• Regional Characteristics of Mongolian Buddhism: A Study on the Basis of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Remarks on Akṣayamati (Blo gros mi zad pa), Being the Author of the Earlier Version of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• Remarks on an Instance of Intertextuality in the Eleventh Chapter of the Śikṣāsamuccaya and the Phrase Tṛṇagulmauṣadhivanaspati in Buddhist Sūtra Literature
• Remarks on the Philosophical Standpoint of the Anonymous Commentary, Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravyākhyāna(-pañjikā)
• Remarks on the Tabo Manuscript of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• Some New Remarks on the Bodhicaryāvatāra Chapter V
• Suffering Made Sufferable: Śāntideva, Dzongkaba, and Modern Therapeutic Approaches to Suffering's Silver Lining
• Suvarṇadvīpa's "Commentaries" on the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Taming Śāntideva: Tsongkhapa's Use of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Tangut Texts of the Five Early Translations and the Texts on the Awakening of the Bodhicitta
• Textcritical Notes on Sanskrit Texts: I. Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• The Bodhicittotpādasamādanāvidhi by Jitari
• The Bodistw-a Čari-a Awatar-un Tayilbur of 1312 by Čosgi Odsir
• The Buddhist Roots of Secular Compassion Training: A Comparative Study of Compassion Cultivation in Indian and Tibetan Mahāyāna Sources with the Contemporary Secular Program of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)
• The Case of 'Ju Mi pham (1846–1912) and Dpa' ris Rab gsal (1840–1912): A Study in Dgag lan Debate
• The Center of the Sunlit Sky
• The Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature
• The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Diss)
• The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India
• The Meaning of Sugata in the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā
• The Middle Way of the Bodhisattva
• The Original Bodhicaryāvatāra
• The Reflexive Nature of Awareness (1998)
• The Tanjur Bodhicaryāvatāra Auxiliaries: A Few Collected Bibliographical Pointers
• The Transmission of the Bodhicaryāvatāra: The History, Diffusion, and Influence of a Mahāyāna Buddhist Text
• Two Kinds of Saṃvṛtis in the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā IX 3-8
• Zu einer zentralen philosophischen Kontroverse mit den "orthodoxen" Philosophen
• Zum Bodhisattvacāryāvatārabhāṣya des Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna
• Śāntideva (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Śāntideva and Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Śāntideva in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
• Śāntideva's Critique of 'I' or Self in the Early and Later Recensions of the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• Śāntideva's Philosophy as Expressed in the Early Version of His Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra, Chapter 8
• Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra: Das Weiterwirken des Werkes dargestellt anhand der Überlieferungsgeschichte des Textes und seiner Kommentare

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

In the 1970s, with the goal of preserving the oral tradition, Matthieu Ricard began collecting stories of Patrul Rinpoche (dpal sprul rin po che) (1808-1887). Many of the sources for these accounts were personally acquainted with direct students of Patrul Rinpoche. This book is a collection of many of these brief anecdotes, translated into English, supplemented by excepts from two written biographies (namthar), which have been arranged roughly in chronological order to read as a larger biographical account.

These are stories of a humorous and inspirational nature, a record of oral tradition rather than scholarly history. Perhaps few but Matthieu Ricard, with decades of intimacy with such a number of Tibetan masters, could have collected so many stories and recounted them in such moving English.

This book also contains short biographies of a number of Patrul Rinpoche's masters, disciples, and influences, illustrations, glossary, and finely detail source information. (Source: Shambhala Publications)

Citation

Ricard, Matthieu, trans. Enlightened Vagabond: The Life and Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche. Edited by Constance Wilkinson. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.

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1 Full translations

Ricard, Matthieu. Kun spangs kun tu rgyu: Dpal sprul rin po che'i rnam thar dang gdams pa (Enlightened Vagabond). New Delhi: Shechen Publications, 2025.ཀུན་སྤངས་ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ། དཔལ་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྣམ་ཐར་དང་གདམས་པ།

Tibetan Publications2025About this item

The Tibetan translation of Enlightened Vagabond: The Life and Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche. Originally published by Shambhala Publications in 2017.

2 Contains chapter or part

Ricard, Matthieu. "Patrul and Lama Mipham." In Enlightened Vagabond: The Life and Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche, 105–6. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.

Articles2017About this item

Ricard, Matthieu. "Patrul and Lama Mipham." In Enlightened Vagabond: The Life and Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche, 105–6. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.

Ricard, Matthieu. "The Great Master Patrul; A Monk Makes a Full Confession; Patrul Waits in Line to Receive a Blessing." In Enlightened Vagabond: The Life and Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche. Edited by Constance Wilkinson, 42–45. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.

Articles2017About this item

Ricard, Matthieu. "The Great Master Patrul; A Monk Makes a Full Confession; Patrul Waits in Line to Receive a Blessing." In Enlightened Vagabond: The Life and Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche. Edited by Constance Wilkinson, 42–45. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, 2017.

1 Scholarly presentations

Ricard, Matthieu. "Enlightened Vagabond by Patrul Rinpoche." Produced by Thinley Norbu Jan 26, 2025. Video, 13:13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7knwRZNiqI.ཀུན་སྤངས་ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ།

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Matthieu Ricard talks about his book Enlightened Vagabond, which is a collection of stories about Patrul Rinpoche.དགེ་སློང་དཀོན་མཆོག་བསྟན་འཛིན་གྱི་རྫ་དཔལ་སྤྲུལ་འཇིགས་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབང་པོའི་རྣམ་ཐར་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིག་སྐོར་གླེང་བ།

2 Interviews

Ricard, Matthieu. "In Conversation with Matthieu Ricard: Enlightened Vagabond." Produced by BDG: Buddhistdoor Global July 19, 2021. Video, 1:09:52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm8AAXogMgI.

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"In conversation with Matthieu Ricard" was an English-language presentation hosted over Zoom by our sister site, Buddhistdoor en Español (BDE) and Padmapani, of the Spanish edition of Matthieu Ricard's new book Enlightened Vagabond: The Life and Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche. Held on July 19, 2021 via Zoom

Ricard, Matthieu. "On His Experience Writing about the Life Stories of Enlightened Masters." Interview by Lopen Dr. Karma Phuntsho. Conversations on Buddha-Nature Series 1. October 24, 2020. Video, 7:18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlKT8DOFYV4.

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Excerpt from "Conversations on Buddha-Nature" with Lopen Dr. Karma Phuntsho