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The '''Ornament of the Middle Way''' (Skt. ''Madhyamakālaṃkāra''; Tib. [[དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་]], ''Uma Gyen'', [[Wyl.]] ''dbu ma rgyan'') was written by [[Shantarakshita]], the great Indian scholar who assisted Guru [[Padmasambhava]] in introducing Buddhism to Tibet and founding the famous monastery of [[Samyé]]. There is a famous commentary by [[Mipham Rinpoche]], his most comprehensive work on [[Madhyamika]], which brilliantly sets out the unique [[Nyingma]] view bringing together themes from the [[Middle Way]] and the [[Mind Only]] schools.  
The '''Ornament of the Middle Way''' (Skt. ''Madhyamakālaṃkāra''; Tib. [[དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་]], ''Uma Gyen'', [[Wyl.]] ''dbu ma rgyan'') was written by [[Shantarakshita]], the great Indian scholar who assisted Guru [[Padmasambhava]] in introducing Buddhism to Tibet and founding the famous monastery of [[Samyé]]. There is a famous commentary by [[Mipham Rinpoche]], his most comprehensive work on [[Madhyamika]], which brilliantly sets out the unique [[Nyingma]] view bringing together themes from the [[Middle Way]] and the [[Mind Only]] schools.  


It was translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan by [[Yeshe De]] under the guidance of [[acharya]] [[Shilendrabodhi]]. [[Kamalashila]]'s ''Commentary on Difficult Points'' was also translated by Yeshe De, under the guidance of [[Surendrabodhi]] and [[Prajñāvarman]].
It was translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan by [[Yeshe De]] under the guidance of [[acharya]] [[Shilendrabodhi]]. [[Kamalashila]]'s ''Commentary on Difficult Points'' was also translated by Yeshe De, under the guidance of [[Surendrabodhi]] and [[Prajñavarman]].


==Text==
==Text==
*[[Shantarakshita]], '''The Ornament of the Middle Way''' (Skt. ''Madhyamakālaṃkāra''; Tib. {{TBRCW|O1GS6011|O1GS60111GS36142$W23703|དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་}}, ''dbu ma rgyan'')
*[[Shantarakshita]], '''The Ornament of the Middle Way''' (Skt. ''Madhyamakālaṃkāra''; Tib. {{TBRCW|O1GS6011|O1GS60111GS36142$W23703|དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་}}, ''dbu ma rgyan'')
* *{{SL|09d46b27-9b36-431f-bebc-15e94918fa54|Sakya Library}}
**English translation: ''Madhyamakalankara'', in [[Mipham Rinpoche]] and Shantarakshita, ''Adornment of the Middle Way'' (Shambhala Publications, 2005), pages 49-66.
**English translation: ''Madhyamakalankara'', in [[Mipham Rinpoche]] and Shantarakshita, ''Adornment of the Middle Way'' (Shambhala Publications, 2005), pages 49-66.


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**English translation: ''Herein is Contained a Commentary on the Ornament of the Middle Way Entitled: The Oral Transmission that Delights the Master of Gentle Melody'', in Ju [[Mipham Rinpoche]] and Thomas H. Doctor, ''Speech of Delight'' (Snow Lion Publications, 2004), pages 3-694.
**English translation: ''Herein is Contained a Commentary on the Ornament of the Middle Way Entitled: The Oral Transmission that Delights the Master of Gentle Melody'', in Ju [[Mipham Rinpoche]] and Thomas H. Doctor, ''Speech of Delight'' (Snow Lion Publications, 2004), pages 3-694.
*[[Lobzang Dongak Chökyi Gyatso]], '''The Sword to Cut Through False Views''' (Tib. {{TBRCW|O00EGS1013724|O00EGS101372413763$W19277|དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་གྱི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་ཉུང་ངུ་ལྟ་ངན་གཅོད་པའི་རལ་གྲི་}}, ''dbu ma rgyan gyi mchan 'grel nyung ngu lta ngan gcod pa'i ral gri'')
*[[Lobzang Dongak Chökyi Gyatso]], '''The Sword to Cut Through False Views''' (Tib. {{TBRCW|O00EGS1013724|O00EGS101372413763$W19277|དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་གྱི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་ཉུང་ངུ་ལྟ་ངན་གཅོད་པའི་རལ་གྲི་}}, ''dbu ma rgyan gyi mchan 'grel nyung ngu lta ngan gcod pa'i ral gri'')
* Chomden Rigpe Raltri, དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་གྱི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་ཚིག་དོན་གསལ་བའི་མེ་ཏོག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་, ''dbu ma rgyan gyi rnam par bshad pa tshig don gsal ba'i me tog ces bya ba'', *{{SL|4bd2fdb5-ea5b-41bb-8766-a156777a1f96|Sakya Library}}
===English===
===English===
*''Tattvasiddhi: The Attainment of Suchness and Madhyamakalankara: The Ornament of the Middle Way by Shantarakshita'' with commentaries by [[Khenpo Palden Sherab|Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche]] and [[Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal]] Rinpoche.
*''Tattvasiddhi: The Attainment of Suchness and Madhyamakalankara: The Ornament of the Middle Way by Shantarakshita'' with commentaries by [[Khenpo Palden Sherab|Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche]] and [[Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal]] Rinpoche (Cool Grove Press, 2017)


==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
==Teachings Given to the [[About Rigpa|Rigpa]] Sangha==
*Dominique Side, Rigpa Shedra West, Dzogchen Beara, 30 September 2004, Introduction to ''Madhyamakalankara''.
*[[Dominique Side]], Rigpa Shedra West, Dzogchen Beara, 30 September 2004, Introduction to ''Madhyamakalankara''.
*[[Ringu Tulku Rinpoche]], [[Rigpa Shedra]] West, [[Dzogchen Beara]], 2-13 October 2004
*[[Ringu Tulku Rinpoche]], [[Rigpa Shedra]] West, [[Dzogchen Beara]], 2-13 October 2004
*Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Rigpa Shedra West, [[Lerab Ling]], 13-21 September, 2005
*Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Rigpa Shedra West, [[Lerab Ling]], 13-21 September, 2005
*[[Khenpo Sönam Tobden]], Rigpa Shedra East, 11 December 2007 to 29 March 2008
*[[Khenpo Sönam Tobden]], Rigpa Shedra East, 11 December 2007 to 29 March 2008
*Lopön Lodrö Palge, Rigpa Shedra East, 2014  
*Lopön Lodrö Palge, Rigpa Shedra East, 2014  
*Lopön Tashi Tseten, Rigpa Shedra East, 2018
*[[Lopön Tashi Tseten]], Rigpa Shedra East, 2018


==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==

Latest revision as of 08:56, 5 June 2024

Shantarakshita, author of the Madhyamakalankara

The Ornament of the Middle Way (Skt. Madhyamakālaṃkāra; Tib. དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་, Uma Gyen, Wyl. dbu ma rgyan) was written by Shantarakshita, the great Indian scholar who assisted Guru Padmasambhava in introducing Buddhism to Tibet and founding the famous monastery of Samyé. There is a famous commentary by Mipham Rinpoche, his most comprehensive work on Madhyamika, which brilliantly sets out the unique Nyingma view bringing together themes from the Middle Way and the Mind Only schools.

It was translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan by Yeshe De under the guidance of acharya Shilendrabodhi. Kamalashila's Commentary on Difficult Points was also translated by Yeshe De, under the guidance of Surendrabodhi and Prajñavarman.

Text

    • English translation: Madhyamakalankara, in Mipham Rinpoche and Shantarakshita, Adornment of the Middle Way (Shambhala Publications, 2005), pages 49-66.

Commentaries

Indian

Tibetan

English

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

Further Reading

  • Kennard Lipman, A Study of Śāntarakṣita's Madhyamakālaṃkāra, PhD dissertation, Saskatchewan 1979.
  • Masamichi Ichigo, Madhyamakālaṃkāra, Kyoto 1985.
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