Garland of Jewels
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From the Author: For the sake of inspiration, I, Mipham Nampar Gyalwa, have collected these stories about the heart sons, the eight mahabodhisattvas, taking them from the precious treasury of the tathagata’s perfect words. May all beings throughout space become equal to the eight bodhisattvas and possess all their qualities! May I and all other become just like The eight great heart-sons in their bodhichitta, Deeds, aspirations, wisdom, love, capability, And unsurpassable miracles of primordial wisdom. Virtue! Mangalam!Reviews
‘In the early twentieth century, the great scholar Jamgön Mipham collected stories from the sutras and tantras about the eight great bodhisattvas. Now that collection has been translated into English by the exceptionally skilled Yeshe Gyamtso in A Garland of Jewels. The stories generally follow a familiar pattern: someone, usually another bodhisattva, asks the Buddha who such and such is, and what his origin is, and the Buddha then explains, in florid and expansive detail and praise.’ - Alexander Gardner, Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s QuarterlyAuthor description
Jamgön Mipham (1846 – 1912) was one of the greatest teachers of his time, and is considered to have been an emanation of Manjushri. His writings remain the basis for much of the study conducted by the Nyingma school of Buddhism, and by other traditions such as the Karma Kagyu. Mipham embodied the nonsectarian movement of the nineteenth century, and studied with masters of all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. His root guru was the nonsectarian master Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. His other teachers included both Jamgön Lodrö Thaye and Dza Paltrul Rinpoche. Yeshe Gyamtso, one of the premier translators of Tibetan Buddhism, was trained in two traditional three-year retreats. Since then he has served as an interpreter for many eminent teachers including His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa. His written translations include Ceremony of Offering to the Gurus, Treasury of Eloquence, The Vajra Garland & The Lotus Garden, Chariot of the Fortunate, Precious Essence, Nyima Tashi, and with the Monlam translation team, The Kagyu Monlam Book.Stock Information
General Fields
- : 9781934608036
- : Atlas Books
- : Atlas Books
- : 160mm x 235mm
- : October 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : 338
- : Hardback + Dust Jacket
- : Jamgön Mipham
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