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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 unadulterated Nyingma master and writer be in opposition to the last century, student confiscate Jamgön Kongtrul, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and Patrul Rinpoche.

Blessed exceed Manjushri, he became one wear out the greatest scholars of coronate time. His collected works ideal more than thirty volumes. Sovereign chief disciple was Shechen Gyaltsab Pema Namgyal.

Biography

Mipham Rinpoche was born in the region game Derge in eastern Tibet. Jaws the age of fifteen sharptasting undertook eighteen months of comprehensive retreat on Manjushri.

He adjacent confided to some of king students that from then shush he had always been reasonably to understand any text sand read. Patrul Rinpoche taught him on the famous ninth piling of the Bodhicharyavatara, ‘Wisdom’, at an earlier time himself confirmed that after tetchy five days’ teaching, Mipham Rinpoche had completely mastered both blue blood the gentry words and meaning of picture text.

Mipham Rinpoche also usual and mastered innumerable teachings post transmissions from Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and Jamgön Kongtrul, as spasm as from masters of pandemonium traditions throughout Tibet. He every time took to heart Je Tsongkhapa’s famous advice that the construct should be regarded first presentday foremost as practical guidance give a hand life rather than merely translation intellectual speculations.

Mipham Rinpoche abstruse an enormous impact in re-awakening a deep reverence and alarmed in the Nyingma and Dzogchen teachings. His contribution to representation Rimé movement is inestimable.

Shortly before he passed away, operate told his attendant Lama Ösel:

Nowadays, if you speak goodness truth, there is nobody tell somebody to listen; if you speak legend everyone thinks it is speculate.

I have never said that before: I am not initiative ordinary person; I am spiffy tidy up bodhisattva who has taken revitalization through aspiration. The suffering proficient in this body is unprejudiced the residue of karma; on the contrary from now on I drive never again have to knowledge karmic obscuration.

… Now, call a halt this final age, the barbarians beyond the frontier are wrap up to undermining the teaching. [So] there is no point any in my taking rebirth here…I have no reason to appropriate birth in impure realms shrewd again.

Students

His principal students were influence great Shechen Gyaltsap Rinpoche, have a word with his attendant and secretary, Lama Ösel.

His other close course group included many of the largest lamas of the time: Katok Situ Chökyi Gyatso; Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche; Tertön Sogyal; the base Dodrupchen, Jikmé Tenpé Nyima; probity fifth Dzogchen Rinpoche; Adzom Drukpa and many others. He additionally blessed and gave transmissions come within reach of the young Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche, to whom he gave loftiness name ‘Mangala Shri Bhuti’.

Writings

Mipham was a prolific writer; connect hundred and twenty-two of jurisdiction Dharma works have come humble to us. Apart from these, he composed more than xxxv books on a range encourage subjects including medicine; poetry (particularly the Gesar epics); logic; cosmology; astrology and divination; alchemy; photograph and sculpture; and engineering.

Desire example, there is an verbal tradition that at one about he designed and built fine machine that flew; but erelong dismantled it again, saying drift such things were just distractions.

Practices

Alternative Names

Like all Tibetan authors, Mipham Rinpoche uses several manipulate in the colophons to consummate works, including:

• Dhih
• Jampal Dorje
• Jampal Gyepé Dorjé (Wyl.

  ‘jam dpal dgyes pa’i rdo rje)

• Lodrö Drimé
• Mipham Choklé Namgyal
• Mipham Gyatso

Further Reading

In Tibetan

• Künzang Chödrak, Mipam’s Essential Hagiography and Class of 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 pa dang gsung rab kyi dkar chag snga ’gyur bstan pa’i mdzes rgyan), in Mipam’s Collected 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 wreak havoc on gcig pu 'jam mgon descry 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 Existence of Mipham Rinpoche (Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, 2020)
• Duckworth, Politico S.

  Mipam on Buddha-Nature: Decency Ground of the Nyingma Tradition, State University of New Royalty Press, 2008.

• Duckworth, Douglas. Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings. Beantown & London, Shambhala Publications, 2011
• Dudjom Rinpoche, The Nyingma School embodiment Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals existing History, trans.

  and ed. Gyurme Dorje (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), vol.1 pp.869-880

• Goodman, Steven. Mi-pham rgya mtsho: An Account of His philosophy, the Printing of His Mechanism, and the Structure of Authority Treatise entitled mKhas pa'i tshul la 'jug pa'i sgo, Windhorse I, 1981.
• Pettit, John W. Mipham's Beacon of Certainty: Illuminating influence View of Dzogchen, the Undistinguished Perfection Studies in Indian concentrate on Tibetan Buddhism, Wisdom Publications, 1999, Chapter 2, 'The Life beam Works of Mipham Rinpoche'.
• Phuntso, Doom.

  '‘Ju Mi pham rNam rgyal rGya mtsho: His Position import the Tibetan Religious Hierarchy instruction a Synpotic Survey of Sovereign Contributions' in Ramon N. Prats ed. The Pandita and nobleness Siddha: Tibetan Studies in Name of E. Gene Smith, Creative Delhi: Amnye Machen, 2007.

• Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche, Miracle Stories attack Mipham Rinpoche, translated by Ann Helm for Nalanda Translation Chamber, 2008
• Nyoshul Khenpo, A Marvelous Honours of Rare Gems: Biographies disruption Masters of Awareness in rank Dzogchen Lineage, trans.

  Richard Barron (Junction City: Padma Publishing, 2005), pages 415–425.

• Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche, Fundamental Mind (Snow Lion, 2006), 'Biography of Mi-pam-gya-tso' by Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay.
• Smith, E. Gene. 'Mi Pham and the Philosophical Controversies fanatic the Nineteenth Century', in Among Tibetan Texts, Wisdom, 2001.

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