5/4/2021: New Rime Shedra Course: Mipham, Emptiness & Buddha-Nature
New course starting Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Mipham, Emptiness & Buddha-Nature
Based upon The Lion of Speech: The Life of Mipham Rinpoche, by Dilgo Khyentse and Jamgon Mipham
A Rime Shedra NYC Course, Online via Zoom
Eight Tuesdays, May 4 to June 29, 2021, 7-9:15 pm, omitting May 11, 2021
Registration available now on the Rime Shedra NYC website.
This course will focus on the main inspiration for Rime Shedra NYC, Jamgön Mipham Namgyal Rinpoche (1846–1912). Mipham is one of the greatest luminaries of Tibetan Buddhism in modern times. He had a dominant and vitalizing influence on the Nyingma school in particular and, despite spending most of his life in retreat, is one of Tibet’s most prolific authors. We will read the recently published biography of Mipham composed by one of the greatest teachers of the 20th century, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, in the book, The Lion of Speech: The Life of Mipham Rinpoche, ably translated by the Padmakara Translation Committee.
We will also study Mipham’s writings included in this book on madhyamaka and his famous text on buddha nature, Lion’s Roar Discourse on Buddha Nature. In addition, we will also study Mipham’s Lion’s Roar of Other Emptiness (Shentong). Together these two texts present Mipham’s view of the essence of the Buddha’s third turning of the wheel of dharma--Buddha Nature and the ultimate nature of reality as being ‘empty of other’ (shentong).
Please purchase the book ASAP so you can read along with us; it is published by Shambhala Publications. An excerpt from Mipham’s Lion’s Roar of Other Emptiness will be provided in class.
The course will be led by Derek Kolleeny.
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