Khenjuk

Mipham Rinpoche

Khenjuk (Tib. མཁས་འཇུག་, Wyl. mkhas 'jug) — the abbreviated title of The Entrance to the Way of the Wise or Introduction to Scholarship, an encyclopedic treatise composed by Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche at the turn of the twentieth century, which is often one of the first texts to be taught in a shedra. (For information on the text of the same name composed by Sakya Pandita, see Sapan Khenjuk.)

Outline

Mipham Rinpoche's famous treatise teaches:

• the vast—the ten topics of knowledge,
• the profound—the four seals, and
• the means of maintaining the profound and vast teachings—the four perfect knowledges.

Tibetan Text

• མཁས་པའི་ཚུལ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་སྒོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, mkhas pa'i tshul la 'jug pa'i sgo zhes bya ba'i bstan bcos
• Adarsha.dharma-treasure.org

Commentaries

• Khenpo Nüden, མཁས་པའི་ཚུལ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་སྒོའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་ལེགས་བཤད་སྣང་བའི་འོད་ཟེར་, mkhas pa'i tshul la 'jug pa'i sgo'i mchan 'grel legs bshad snang ba'i 'od zer

མཁས་པའི་ཚུལ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་སྒོའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་ལེགས་བཤད་སྣང་བའི་འོད་ཟེར་, mkhas pa'i tshul la 'jug pa'i sgo'i mchan 'grel legs bshad snang ba'i 'od zer

• Lobpön Thekchok Yeshe Dorje, མཁས་འཇུག་གི་ཐུན་མོང་ཐེག་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས་འགའ་ཞིག་ལ་དཔྱད་པ་ལུང་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ, mkhas 'jug gi thun mong theg pa'i chos kyi rnam grangs 'ga' zhig la dpyad pa lung kun las btus pa

མཁས་འཇུག་གི་ཐུན་མོང་ཐེག་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས་འགའ་ཞིག་ལ་དཔྱད་པ་ལུང་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ, mkhas 'jug gi thun mong theg pa'i chos kyi rnam grangs 'ga' zhig la dpyad pa lung kun las btus pa

Translations

• Mipham Rinpoche, Gateway to Knowledge, vol. I (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1984 & 1997). Contains the teachings on the first seven topics of knowledge.
• Mipham Rinpoche, Gateway to Knowledge, vol. II, (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2000). Contains the teachings on the eighth topic of knowledge.
• Mipham Rinpoche, Gateway to Knowledge, vol. III, (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2002). Contains the teachings on the ninth and tenth topics of knowledge.
• Mipham Rinpoche, Gateway to Knowledge, vol. IV, (Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2012). Contains the teachings on the four seals and the four perfect knowledges.

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

• Khenpo Pasang Tenzin, Rigpa Shedra East, Pharping, Nepal, 2006
• Lopön Tenzin Wangdü, Rigpa Shedra East, Pharping, Nepal, 2013

Further Reading

• Steven Goodman, Mi-pham rgya mtsho: An Account of His life, the Printing of His Works, and the Structure of His Treatise entitled mKhas pa'i tshul la 'jug pa'i sgo, Windhorse I, 1981
• Ways of Enlightenment, Dharma Publishing, 1993
• L.S. Kawamura, 'The Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra and Mi pham's mKhas 'jug' in Ernst Steinkellner and Helmut Tauscher (ed.), Contributions on Tibetan and Buddhist Religion and Philosophy (Proceedings of the Csoma de Koros Symposium Held at Velm-Vienna, Austria, 13-19 September 1981), Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass 1995

External Links

• Four logical arguments of the Middle Way from the Khenjuk
• Individual Selflessness from the Khenjuk