Mi-pam-gya-tso : FUNDAMENTAL MIND: The Nyingma View of the Great Completeness

Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay provides an illuminating, expansive, and practical commentary on Mi-pam-gya-tso's incisive work on the Great Completeness view of ultimate reality, called The Meaning of Fundamental Mind, Clear Light.

Fundamental Mind begins with a biography of Mi-pam-gya-tso, after which Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay explains the aim of the book--the differentiation of mistaken mind and fundamental mind. The main theme is primordial enlightenment in the basal clear light, self-arisen pristine wisdom. The emphasis is on being introduced to and identifying fundamental mind in naked experience through a lama's quintessential instructions.

The combination of topic, well-known authors, and accessible presentation of the material should make this an important book for practitioners.

"In Khetsun Sangpo we meet Tibet's finest traditions of contemplative education, literary expression, and gentle courage. In Jeffrey Hopkins we encounter an intrepid explorer and virtually peerless expositor of Tibetan Buddhist inquiry into the practical and profound. It is wonderful to read this record of their mutual interests and startling discoveries, drawn from a collaboration that stretches over more than three decades."--Jules B. Levinson, Ph.D., Light of Berotsana Translation Group

"In his insightful and practical commentary on Mipham Gyatso's The Meaning of Fundamental Mind, Clear Light, senior Nyingma lama Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche explores the difference between mistaken mind--with which we engage in all our daily activities--and the fundamental mind of buddhas. Fundamental Mind begins with the biography of Mipham Gyatso (1846-1912), tracing the Tibetan scholar-yogi's journey from a childhood in Kham to his position as one of the leaders of the Rime movement. Translated and edited by leading scholar Jeffrey Hopkins, this collaboration is a valuable introduction to the concept of fundamental mind."--Tricycle

Mi-pam-gya-tso (1846-1912) was a great Nying-ma scholar-yogi and one of the leaders of the Ri-me (nonsectarian) movement in eastern Tibet.

Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay is one of the few remaining Nyingma lamas trained in Tibet and capable of transmitting in complete form the special precepts of the Nyingma order. A lay priest and renowned yogi-scholar, he was trained in all four lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He is among the most senior lamas and Great Completeness masters in the Nyingma Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and the most eminent Nyingma historian alive today.

Jeffrey Hopkins is a seminal and influential scholar of Tibetan Buddhism. Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, he is the author and translator of over thirty-five books on Tibetan Buddhism

SNOW LION
05/12/2006
PAGES: 175
SIZE: 5 X 7
ISBN: 9781559392501