Fundamental Mind: The Nyingma View of the Great Completeness - Softcover

Mi-Pam-Gya-Tso, .

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559392509 ISBN 13: 9781559392501

Publisher: Snow Lion, 2006

Synopsis

Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche provides an illuminating, expansive, and practical commentary on Mi-pam-gya-tso's incisive work on the Great Completeness view of ultimate reality called "The Meaning of Fundamental Mind Clear Light." Fundamental Mind begins with a biography of Mi-pam-gya-tso, after which Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche explains the aim of the book: the differentiation of mistaken mind and fundamental mind. The main theme is primordial enlightenment in the basal clear light, self-arisen pristine wisdom. The emphasis is on being introduced to and identifying fundamental mind in naked experience through a lama's quintessential instructions.

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Review:

"The combination of topic, well-known authors, and accessible presentation of the material should make this an important book for practitioners. In Khetsun Sangpo, we meet Tibet's finest traditions of contemplative education, literary expression, and gentle courage. In Jeffrey Hopkins, we encounter an intrepid explorer and virtually peerless expositor of Tibetan Buddhist inquiry into the practical and profound. It is wonderful to read this record of their mutual interests and startling discoveries drawn from a collaboration that stretches over more than three decades."--Jules B. Levinson, PhD, Light of Berotsana Translation Group

"This collaboration is a valuable introduction to the concept of fundamental mind." --Tricycle

Synopsis:

Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche provides an expansive and illuminating commentary on the great Nyingma scholar-yogi Mipam Gyatso's incisive work on the Great Completeness view of ultimate reality, called "Three Cycles on Fundamental Mind". Beginning with a biography of Mipam, Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche explains the aim of this book - the differentiation of mistaken mind and fundamental mind. The main theme is primordial enlightenment in the basic clear light, self-arisen pristine wisdom. Then in four chapters Mipam presents the basic mind, or vajra matrix, drawing on myriad explanations in tantras; details how fundamental mind is an uncompounded union of luminosity and emptiness; refutes Jawa Do-ngak's presentation of the Great Completeness as a compounded mind; and draws distinctions about the nature and appearance of fundamental mind prior to and after realization. The emphasis is on being introduced to and identifying fundamental mind in naked experience through a lama's quintessential instructions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Snow Lion
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1559392509
• ISBN 13: 9781559392501
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176