{"id":11509,"date":"2014-11-30T01:54:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T01:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/?p=11509"},"modified":"2018-10-05T15:24:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T15:24:54","slug":"life-and-teachings-of-jamgon-mipam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2014\/11\/30\/life-and-teachings-of-jamgon-mipam\/","title":{"rendered":"Life and teachings of Jamg\u00f6n Mipam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jamg\u00f6n Mipam (1846 \u2013 1912) is a representative of the Nyingma school, or \u201cold school,\u201d of Tibetan Buddhism. The Nyingma trace their roots to the earliest entry of Buddhism into Tibet in the eighth century of the Common Era by Indian Buddhists, including luminaries Santaraksita and Padmasambhava. The \u201cnew\u201d schools \u2013 Jonang, Geluk, Sakya, and Kagyu \u2013 that developed from the eleventh century viewed the Nyingma with suspicion, charging that Nyimgma scriptures were not based on Indian originals.<\/p>\n

Mipam\u2019s great strength was his ability to synthesize currents from the different new schools into the Nyingma tradition. As a monastic who spent considerable time in meditation and a scholar versed in the Middle Way, logic, poetics, medicine, astrology, and tantra, Mipam was well-placed to bridge the gap between the scriptural and meditative approaches to enlightenment. His writings cover a vast range of topics and genres, all the more surprising considering that he spent so much time in meditative retreat.<\/p>\n

Religion professor Douglas Duckworth is a specialist on Indian and Tibetan Buddhism. His 2011 book Jamgon Mipam: His Life and Teachings<\/a><\/em> fills a need for an introduction on this important scholar, polymath, and mystic. Organized into three parts, it reviews Mipam\u2019s life and the Buddhist traditions and teachers from which he drew, explores Mipam\u2019s doctrines and philosophy, and then provides selected translations of Mipam\u2019s works.<\/p>\n

I spoke to Professor Douglas Duckworth on September 22, 2014 about his book Jamg\u00f6n Mipam: His Life and Teachings<\/strong><\/em>, published in 2011 with Shambhala Publications.<\/p>\n

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