Lion of Speech: The Life of Mipham Rinpoche

Dilgo Khyentse,Jamgon Mipham,The Padmakara Translation Group

Lion of Speech: The Life of Mipham Rinpoche
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Shambhala Publications Inc
Country
United States
Published
24 February 2021
Pages
288
ISBN
9781559394949

Lion of Speech: The Life of Mipham Rinpoche

Dilgo Khyentse,Jamgon Mipham,The Padmakara Translation Group

A traditional biography on the life of Mipham Rinpoche–one of the greatest 19th-century masters–from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the greatest 20th-century masters.

A traditional biography on the life of Mipham Rinpoche–one of the greatest 19th-century masters–from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the greatest 20th-century masters.

The first half of this volume comprises the first-ever English translation of the biography of Mipham Rinpoche written by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, a teacher to His Holiness the Dalai Lama as well as an entire generation of other teachers and students throughout the Himalayan region and the West. Composed in 1939, it was left behind in Tibet in 1959 when Khyentse Rinpoche went into exile and was lost for fifty-one years before its discovery in 2010 by an extraordinary stroke of good luck. Reverential in tone, it is informed by both oral accounts preserved in notes kept by Khyentse Rinpoche’s elder brother and the recollections of Mipham’s devoted personal attendant of thirty-seven years.

In keeping with the identification of Mipham as an emanation of Manjushri, the lion of speech, the second half comprises a selection of Mipham’s writings, designed to give the reader an experience of Mipham’s eloquent speech and incisive thought. It includes both a new translation of The Lion’s Roar- A Comprehensive Discourse on the Buddha-Nature and A Lamp to Dispel the Dark, a teaching of the Great Perfection, as well as excerpts from previously published translations of his works on Madhyamaka and tantra.

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