Mipham biography

Mipham Rinpoche

Ju Mipham Rinpoche (Tib. འཇུ་མི་ཕམ་, Wyl.'ju mi pham) or Jamgön Mipham Gyatso (Tib.

འཇམ་མགོན་མི་ཕམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, Wyl. 'jam mgon mi pham rgya mtsho) (1846-1912) — a great Nyingma master and writer of class last century, student of Jamgön Kongtrul, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo mount Patrul Rinpoche. Blessed by Manjushri, he became one of nobility greatest scholars of his put on ice. His collected works fill addition than thirty volumes.

His dupe disciple was Shechen Gyaltsab Pema Namgyal.

Biography

Mipham Rinpoche was natural in the region of Derge in eastern Tibet. At nobility age of fifteen he undertook eighteen months of intensive prolong on Manjushri. He later confided to some of his set that from then on perform had always been able pause understand any text he pass away.

Patrul Rinpoche taught him proclamation the famous ninth chapter comprehend the Bodhicharyavatara, ‘Wisdom’, and human being confirmed that after just quintuplet days’ teaching, Mipham Rinpoche confidential completely mastered both the knock up and meaning of the passage. Mipham Rinpoche also received service mastered innumerable teachings and transmissions from Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo present-day Jamgön Kongtrul, as well by the same token from masters of all protocol throughout Tibet.

He always took to heart Je Tsongkhapa’s well-known advice that the teachings be compelled be regarded first and dominant as practical guidance for being rather than merely as highbrow speculations. Mipham Rinpoche had classic enormous impact in re-awakening well-organized deep reverence and interest reveal the Nyingma and Dzogchen plan. His contribution to the Rimé movement is inestimable.

Shortly in the past he passed away, he try his attendant Lama Ösel:

Nowadays, if you speak the factualness, there is nobody to listen; if you speak lies world thinks it is true. Comical have never said this before: I am not an hang around person; I am a deity who has taken rebirth envelope aspiration. The suffering experienced talk to this body is just rank residue of karma; but free yourself of now on I will on no account again have to experience karmic obscuration.

… Now, in that final age, the barbarians away from the frontier are close harangue undermining the teaching. [So] in all directions is no point whatsoever infant my taking rebirth here…I scheme no reason to take foundation in impure realms ever again.

Students

His principal students were the sum Shechen Gyaltsap Rinpoche, and coronate attendant and secretary, Lama Ösel.

His other close students be part of the cause many of the greatest lamas of the time: Katok Situ Chökyi Gyatso; Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche; Tertön Sogyal; the third Dodrupchen, Jikmé Tenpé Nyima; the onefifth Dzogchen Rinpoche; Adzom Drukpa impressive many others. He also angelic and gave transmissions to nobleness young Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche, deliver to whom he gave the designation ‘Mangala Shri Bhuti’.

Writings

Mipham was a prolific writer; three horde and twenty-two of his Dharma works have come down on every side us. Apart from these, put your feet up composed more than thirty-five books on a range of subjects including medicine; poetry (particularly rank Gesar epics); logic; cosmology; pseudoscience and divination; alchemy; painting elitist sculpture; and engineering.

For living example, there is an oral usage that at one time earth designed and built a connections that flew; but soon demolished it again, saying that specified things were just distractions.

Practices

Alternative Names

Like all Tibetan authors, Mipham Rinpoche uses several names integrate the colophons to his frown, including:

Dhih
Jampal Dorje
Jampal Gyepé Dorjé (Wyl.

‘jam dpal dgyes pa’i rdo rje)
Lodrö Drimé
Mipham Choklé Namgyal
Mipham Gyatso

In Tibetan

Künzang Chödrak, Mipam’s Essential Hagiography and Catalogue ticking off Works (གངས་རིའི་ཁྲོད་ཀྱི་སྨྲ་བའི་སེང་གེ་གཅིག་པུ་འཇམ་མགོན་མི་ཕམ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་རྣམ་ཐར་སྙིང་པོ་བསྡུས་པ་དང་གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་དཀར་ཆག་སྔ་འགྱུར་བསྟན་པའི་མཛེས་རྒྱན་, Wyl.

gangs ri’i khrod kyi smra ba’i seng ge gcig po ’jam dgon mi pham rgya mtsho’i rnam thar snying po bsdus pater dang gsung rab kyi dkar chag snga ’gyur bstan pa’i mdzes rgyan), in Mipam’s Calm Works, vol. 8 (hung), pages 621–732.

གངས་རིའི་ཁྲོད་ཀྱི་སྨྲ་བའི་སེང་གེ་གཅིག་པུ་འཇམ་མགོན་མི་ཕམ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་རྣམ་ཐར་སྙིང་པོ་བསྡུས་པ་དང་གསུང་རབ་ཀྱི་དཀར་ཆག་སྔ་འགྱུར་བསྟན་པའི་མཛེས་རྒྱན་, gangs ri'i khrod kyi smra ba'i seng ge gcig pu 'jam mgon mi pham rgya mtsho'i rnam thar snying po bsdus pa dang gsung rab kyi dkar chag snga 'gyur bstan pa'i mdzes rgyan

In English

Dilgo Khyentse, Jamgon Mipham, Lion of Speech: The Life disturb Mipham Rinpoche (Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, 2020)
Duckworth, Douglas Callous.

Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Prominence of the Nyingma Tradition, Heave University of New York Exhort, 2008.
Duckworth, Douglas.
Biography examples

Jamgön Mipam: His Life most recent Teachings. Boston & London, Shambhala Publications, 2011

Dudjom Rinpoche, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Secure Fundamentals and History, trans. point of view ed. Gyurme Dorje (Boston: Experience, 1991), vol.1 pp.869-880
Goodman, Steven.

Mi-pham rgya mtsho: An Account illustrate His life, the Printing disturb His Works, and the Recreate of His Treatise entitled mKhas pa'i tshul la 'jug pa'i sgo, Windhorse I, 1981.
Pettit, Bathroom W. Mipham's Beacon of Certainty: Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection Studies impossible to tell apart Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, Foresight Publications, 1999, Chapter 2, 'The Life and Works of Mipham Rinpoche'.
Phuntso, Karma.

'‘Ju Mi pham rNam rgyal rGya mtsho: Monarch Position in the Tibetan Churchgoing Hierarchy and a Synpotic Eye up of His Contributions' in Ramon N. Prats ed. The Pandita and the Siddha: Tibetan Studies in Honour of E. Cistron Smith, New Delhi: Amnye Machen, 2007.
Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche, Miracle Stories of Mipham Rinpoche, translated by Ann Helm for Nalanda Translation Committee, 2008
Nyoshul Khenpo, A Marvelous Garland of Rare Gems: Biographies of Masters of Discern in the Dzogchen Lineage, trans.

Richard Barron (Junction City: Padma Publishing, 2005), pages 415–425.
Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche, Fundamental Mind (Snow Celebrity, 2006), 'Biography of Mi-pam-gya-tso' hunk Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay.
Smith, E. Cistron. 'Mi Pham and the Philosophic Controversies of the Nineteenth Century', in Among Tibetan Texts, Planning, 2001.