Mipham's Beacon of Certainty: Illuminating the View of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection

by Jamgön Mipham, John W. Pettit, Penor Rinpoche (Contributor)

For centuries, Dzogchen—a special meditative practice to achieve spontaneous enlightenment - has been misinterpreted by both critics and malinformed meditators as being purely mystical and anti-rational. In the grand spirit of Buddhist debate, 19th century Buddhist philosopher Mipham wrote Beacon of Certainty, a compelling defense of Dzogchen philosophy that employs the very logic it was criticized as lacking. Through lucid and accessible textural translation and penetrating analysis, Pettit presents Mipham as one of Tibet's greatest thinkers.

Genres: Buddhism, Philosophy, Spirituality

592 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1853

About the author

Ju Mipham Rinpoche (Tibetan ཇུ་མི་ཕམ་, Wylie 'ju mi pham) or Jamgön Mipham Gyatso (འཇམ་མགོན་མི་ཕམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, 'jam mgon mi pham rgya mtsho) was a great Nyingma master and writer of the 19th century, student of Jamgön Kongtrul, Jamyang Khyentsé Wangpo and Patrul Rinpoche.

Like all Tibetan authors, Mipham Rinpoche uses several names in the colophons to his works, which may then be rendered into English in several ways, including:

Dhih
Jampal Dorje
Jampal Gyepé Dorjé (Wyl. ‘jam dpal dgyes pa’i rdo rje)
Lodrö Drimé
Mipham Choklé Namgyal
Mipham Gyatso
Mipham Jampal Gyepa'i Dorje

Reviews

[Thomas Beaver · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was like putting my head in a food processor. Still can't tell you what the difference is between shentong and rangtong. Needed to take Vimala pills during reading to counter rlung disorder. Managed to make it to the end, but only just. This is not Jamgon Mipham's fault obvously. I'm just a bit stupid.

[Risto Saarelma]

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