Mipham rinpoche biography template
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Mipham Rinpoche
Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche
Kunkhyen Jamyang Mipham Rinpoche
འཇུ་མི་ཕམ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་
'ju mi pham rin po che
Jamgon Mipham Namgyal Gyatso
འཇམ་མགོན་མི་ཕམ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་
'jam mgon mi pham rnam rgyal rgya mtsho
Short Biography
- Repository of the four aspects of perfect intelligence,
- Lord of the kingdom of dharma,
- You were the greatest pandita of your generation:
- Homage to Jamgon Mipham.
Jamyang Mipham Namgyal Gyatso Rinpoche (1846-1912) ranks alongside Longchen Rabjam and Tsongkhapa as one of Tibet's most prolific and influential masters. His presentation of the Nyingma School's unique approach to the view and practice of Buddhism, and in particular the relationship between Madhyamaka and the Great Perfection, has had an enormous impact on the past few generations of Tibetan Buddhist scholars and practitioners. Namdrolling Monastic College, currently the largest functioning Nyingma educational institution, includes twenty of his texts in it
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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 the last century, student of Jamgön Kongtrul, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and Patrul Rinpoche. Blessed bygd Manjushri, he became one of the greatest scholars of his time. His collected works fill more than thirty volumes. His chief disciple was Shechen Gyaltsab Pema Namgyal.
Biography
Mipham Rinpoche was born in the region of Derge in eastern Tibet. At the age of fifteen he undertook eighteen months of intensive retreat on Manjushri. He later confided to some of his students that from then on he had always been able to understand any text he read. Patrul Rinpoche taught him on the famous ninth chapter of the Bodhicharyavatara, ‘Wisdom’, and himself confirmed that after just five days’ teaching, Mipham Rinpoche had completely mastered both the words and meaning of
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Mipham Rinpoche
Jamgön Mipham Jamyang Namgyal Gyatso (1846–1912) was a great mästare of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He was born in 1846 in Eastern Tibet. He was recognized as an exceptional child from a ung age, memorizing texts as early as age six. By the age of ten he had already composed many texts. At twelve, he entered the kloster as an ordinary monk of the Ogmin Ogyen Mindrolling lineage.
When he was fifteen or sixteen, after studying the very difficult Mindrolling system of chanting for only a few days and praying to Manjushri, he fryst vatten said to have completely mastered it. In an 18-month retreat he accomplished the form of Manjushri known as ‘Lion of Philosophers’ using a liturgy composed by the fifteenth Karmapa Khakhyab Dorje. He made many medicinal pills blessed with Manjushri’s mantra, and many miraculous signs were said to have been manifested.
Jamgön Mipham Jamyang Namgyal Gyatso received teachings from masters of all lineages His r