Mipham biography
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Jamgön Ju Mipham Gyatso
Tibetan Buddhist master (–)
Jamgön Ju Mipham Gyatso, or Mipham Jamyang Namgyal Gyamtso (–) (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 central to the scholastic curriculum in Nyingma monasteries today. Mipham is also considered to be one of the leading figures in the Rimé (non-sectarian) movement in Tibet.
Derivation of name
[edit]"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) indicate 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 "Unconquerable Ocean"). In Tibetan literature, the word "mi-pham" is the standard translation of the Sanskrit "ajita", meaning "unconquered",[4] which is a common epithet of the celestial bodhisattva Maitreya.[5]
Biography
[edit]Early life
[edit]Mipham the Great was born to an aristocratic
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Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche
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His family originated with Achak Dru, one of the six original Tibetans who were born of the union of the Monkey Bodhisattva (an emanation of Avalokiteshvara) and the female Rock Demoness, whose descendant was a general of the king of Mongolia. These people later lived under the Dharma King of Dege, Tenpa Tsering. Many learned and accomplished people arose in this lineage, including many powerful ngakpas. From this lineage came one named Gyud la Do de, an emanation of Medicine Buddha. His descendant, Ju Gonpo Targye, was Mipham’s father.
His mother’s lineage was called Mukpo Dong gi Gyudpa (the Brown Face lineage). This family was very wealthy and generous to the Dharma. One of them, called Cho Dar, was a minister to the King of Dege. His daughter Sing Chung was Jamgon Mipham’s mother.
Depending on this perfectly endowed family lineage, in the fourteenth Rabjung, in the Male Fire Horse year (), at a very auspicious time, in the region of Do-Kham called Four Rivers and Six Hills (Chu Zhi
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Mipham Rinpoche
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