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* ''2nd teaching, 17-Dec-2008:'' Our teacher the Buddha has taught on buddha nature emphazising sugatagarbha's essence ''(ngo bo)'' by teaching on emptiness. On other occasions he gave clarifications on it's nature ''(rang bzhin)'' by explaining it's primordially present qualitites. It is crucial to understand that those two aspects are in union.<br>'''online:''' [http://www.rigpawiki.org/Media/Audio/2008-2009/20081217PH0930KN.mp3 20081217PH0930KN.mp3]<br>See Tibetan: Mipham ''gsung 'bum'', Vol 4., p. 564-565. English: Duckworth, p.147-148
* ''2nd teaching, 17-Dec-2008:'' Our teacher the Buddha has taught on buddha nature emphazising sugatagarbha's essence ''(ngo bo)'' by teaching on emptiness. On other occasions he gave clarifications on it's nature ''(rang bzhin)'' by explaining it's primordially present qualitites. It is crucial to understand that those two aspects are in union.<br>'''online:''' [http://www.rigpawiki.org/Media/Audio/2008-2009/20081217PH0930KN.mp3 20081217PH0930KN.mp3]<br>See Tibetan: Mipham ''gsung 'bum'', Vol 4., p. 564-565. English: Duckworth, p.147-148


* ''3rd teaching, 18-Dec-2008:'' Accuracy of scriptures can be examined by the [[three types of investigation]] and understanding establishes irreversible trust by means of the [[three types of valid cognition]]. How can the buddha nature ''(tathagatagarbha)'' be established in this way as being empty in essence while cognizant in nature?<br>'''NOT online yet, please wait for upload to complete.''' [http://www.rigpawiki.org/Media/Audio/2008-2009/20081218PH0930KN.mp3 20081218PH0930KN.mp3]<br>See Tibetan: Mipham ''gsung 'bum'', Vol 4., p. 566-567. English: Duckworth, p.148-149
* ''3rd teaching, 18-Dec-2008:'' Accuracy of scriptures can be examined by the [[three types of investigation]] and understanding establishes irreversible trust by means of the [[three types of valid cognition]]. How can the buddha nature ''(tathagatagarbha)'' be established in this way as being empty in essence while cognizant in nature?<br>'''online:''' [http://www.rigpawiki.org/Media/Audio/2008-2009/20081218PH0930KN.mp3 20081218PH0930KN.mp3]<br>See Tibetan: Mipham ''gsung 'bum'', Vol 4., p. 566-567. English: Duckworth, p.148-149


===A. Proof of the presence of the tathagarbha in all sentient beings===
===A. Proof of the presence of the tathagarbha in all sentient beings===

Revision as of 07:12, 18 December 2008

Khenchen Namdrol teaching at the Rigpa Shedra East 2008 / 2009 in Pharping

Khenchen Namdrol Rinpoche is currently teaching the Rigpa Shedra on Mipham Rinpoche's work on buddha nature (Skt. sugatagarbha): The Lion's Roar of the Great Harmony of Emptiness and Sugatagarbha.

We will update this page on a daily basis with recordings of the teachings as we progress. The recordings contain the Tibetan teaching and its live English translation.

Recorded during Shedra East 2008-2009 in Pharping, Nepal

Khenchen Namdrol and Gyurmé the translator

Study Material

Douglas Duckworth has recently published an English translation of the text we are studying:
Douglas S. Duckworth: Mipam on Buddha-Nature. The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition, State University of New York Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7914-7521-8. The translation is contained in appendix 1.

The Tibetan is contained in Mipham Rinpoche's collected works (gsung 'bum), Volume pod 4 pa

  • bde gshegs snying po'i stong thun chen mo seng ge'i nga ro p. 563-608. See TBRC

The Lion's Roar of the Great Harmony of Emptiness and Sugatagarbha

By Jamgön Mipam Rinpoche

Prologue

Introduction

  • 2nd teaching, 17-Dec-2008: Our teacher the Buddha has taught on buddha nature emphazising sugatagarbha's essence (ngo bo) by teaching on emptiness. On other occasions he gave clarifications on it's nature (rang bzhin) by explaining it's primordially present qualitites. It is crucial to understand that those two aspects are in union.
    online: 20081217PH0930KN.mp3
    See Tibetan: Mipham gsung 'bum, Vol 4., p. 564-565. English: Duckworth, p.147-148
  • 3rd teaching, 18-Dec-2008: Accuracy of scriptures can be examined by the three types of investigation and understanding establishes irreversible trust by means of the three types of valid cognition. How can the buddha nature (tathagatagarbha) be established in this way as being empty in essence while cognizant in nature?
    online: 20081218PH0930KN.mp3
    See Tibetan: Mipham gsung 'bum, Vol 4., p. 566-567. English: Duckworth, p.148-149

A. Proof of the presence of the tathagarbha in all sentient beings

The Uttaratantra Shastra says:
Because the perfect buddhas’s kaya is all-pervading,
Because reality is undifferentiated,
And because they possess the potential,
Beings always have the buddha nature.
Sublime Continuum, I, 27[1]

References

  1. Translation Adam Pearcey, Compendium of Quotations VI, p. 49