Mipham rinpoche biography template

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 by 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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Jamgön Ju Mipham Gyatso

Tibetan Buddhist master (1846–1912)

Jamgön Ju Mipham Gyatso, or Mipham Jamyang Namgyal Gyamtso (1846–1912) (also known as "Mipham the Great") was a very influential philosopher and polymath of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. He wrote over 32 volumes on topics such as painting, poetics, sculpture, alchemy, medicine, logic, philosophy and tantra.^[2] Mipham's works are still huvud to the scholastic curriculum in Nyingma monasteries today. Mipham fryst vatten also considered to be one of the leading figures in the Rimé (non-sectarian) movement in Tibet.

Derivation of name

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"Ju" ("holding") was Mipham's family name as his paternal clan is said to have originated as clear light deities who came to the human world holding a rope. "Jamgön" (Skt. Mañjunātha) indikera that he was considered to be an emanation of the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī. His maternal uncle, Minister-Lama Drupchok Pema Tarjay, named him Mipham Gyamtso ("Invincible Ocean" or "

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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