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Khenchen Namdrol teaching at the Rigpa Shedra East 2008 / 2009 in Pharping

Khenchen Namdrol Rinpoche is currently teaching the Rigpa Shedra on Mipham Rinpoche's work on buddha nature (Skt. sugatagarbha): The Lion's Roar: A Commentary on Sugatagarbha.

We will update this page on a daily basis with recordings of the teachings as we progress. The recordings contain the Tibetan teaching and its live English translation.

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Recorded during Shedra East 2008-2009 in Pharping, Nepal

Khenchen Namdrol and Gyurmé the translator

Study Material

Douglas Duckworth has recently published an English translation of the text we are studying:

Douglas Duckworth, Mipam on Buddha-Nature. The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition, State University of New York Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7914-7521-8. The translation is contained in Appendix 1.

The Tibetan is contained in Mipham Rinpoche's collected works (gsung 'bum), Volume pod 4 pa

bde gshegs snying po'i stong thun chen mo seng ge'i nga ro p. 563-608. See TBRC

The Lion's Roar: A Commentary on Sugatagarbha

By Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche

Prologue

1^st teaching, 16-Dec-2008: How is buddha nature taught in sutra, tantra and Dzogchen?
online: 20081216PH0930KN.mp3

Introduction

2^nd teaching, 17-Dec-2008: Our teacher the Buddha has taught on buddha nature emphazising sugatagarbha's essence (Wyl. ngo bo) by teaching on emptiness. On other occasions, he gave clarifications on its nature (Wyl. rang bzhin) by explaining its primordially present qualities. It is crucial to understand that those two aspects are in union.
online: 20081217PH0930KN.mp3
See Tibetan: Mipham gsung 'bum, Vol 4., p. 564-565. English: Duckworth, p.147-148

3^rd teaching, 18-Dec-2008: Accuracy of scriptures can be examined by the three types of investigation and understanding establishes irreversible trust by means of the three types of valid cognition.^[1] How can buddha nature (tathagatagarbha) be established in this way, as being empty in essence while cognizant in nature?
online: 20081218PH0930KN.mp3
See Tibetan: Mipham gsung 'bum, Vol 4., p. 566-567. English: Duckworth, p.148-149

1. Proof of the Presence of the Tathagatagarbha in all Sentient Beings

The Uttaratantra Shastra says:

Because the perfect buddhas’s kaya is all-pervading,
Because reality is undifferentiated,
And because they possess the potential,^[2]
Beings always have the buddha nature.^[3]

1.1 The Mistaken Apprehension of Others

4^th teaching, 19-Dec-2008: A refutation of the position of early Tibetan commentators concerning the interpretation of the meaning of the Uttaratantra Shastra verse. Neither is the fact that the dharmakaya pervades everything sufficient for the existent of the nature (Tib. rigs) nor can suchness be simply understood as mere emptiness in the sense of the approximate ultimate.
online: 20081219PH0930KN.mp3
See Tibetan: Mipham gsung 'bum, Vol 4., p. 567-569. English: Duckworth, p.149-151

Nature (rigs) as the union of the two truths

5^th teaching, 20-Dec-2008: The sugatagarbha is the indivisible union, beyond any possibility of being united or separated, of the primordial purity of the cause and effect of samsara, and untainted appearances which are natural and spontaneous clear light.
online: 20081220PH0930KN.mp3
See Tibetan: Mipham gsung 'bum, Vol 4., p. 569-572. English: Duckworth, p.151-153

1.2 Our Tradition

1.2.1 The Meaning of the First Line

1.2.1.1 General Reasoning

1.2.1.2 Specific Points

6^th teaching, 22-Dec-2008: How to establish by reasoning that the sugatagarbha is already present in all beings?
online: 20081222PH0930KN.mp3
See Tibetan: Mipham gsung 'bum, Vol 4., p. 572-575. English: Duckworth, p.153-156

The disposition^[4] is empty of the adventitious stains,
Which are characterized by their total separateness.
But it is not empty of the unsurpassed qualities,
Which have the character of total inseparability.^[5]

7^th teaching, 23-Dec-2008: The nature as the great uncompounded which is unchanging and never separated from it's qualities.
NOT YET online: 20081223PH0930KN.mp3
See Tibetan: Mipham gsung 'bum, Vol 4., p. 575-577. English: Duckworth, p.156-158

References

↑ (Wyl. tshad ma gsum) Another expression for the three types of investigation
↑ The alternative translation for potential (Tib. rig; Wyl. rigs) used during the teachings is nature or the Sanskrit gotra (here go comes from guna, quality. Tra means to protect. So gotra means to protect the qualities (Wyl. yon ten skyob pa) [RY])
↑ Sublime Continuum, I, 27. Translation Adam Pearcey, Compendium of Quotations VI, p. 49
↑ (Wyl. khams), translated as element during the teachings.
↑ Sublime Continuum, I, 155. Translation Adam Pearcey, Compendium of Quotations VI

[1] (Wyl. tshad ma gsum) Another expression for the three types of investigation

[2] The alternative translation for potential (Tib. rig; Wyl. rigs) used during the teachings is nature or the Sanskrit gotra (here go comes from guna, quality. Tra means to protect. So gotra means to protect the qualities (Wyl. yon ten skyob pa) [RY])

[3] Sublime Continuum, I, 27. Translation Adam Pearcey, Compendium of Quotations VI, p. 49

[4] (Wyl. khams), translated as element during the teachings.

[5] Sublime Continuum, I, 155. Translation Adam Pearcey, Compendium of Quotations VI

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 * ''6<sup>th</sup> teaching, 22-Dec-2008:'' How to establish by reasoning that the sugatagarbha is already present in all beings?<br>'''online:''' [http://www.rigpawiki.org/Media/Audio/2008-2009/20081222PH0930KN.mp3 20081222PH0930KN.mp3]<br>See Tibetan: Mipham ''gsung 'bum'', Vol 4., p. 572-575. English: Duckworth, p.153-156
-:The disposition<ref>(Wyl. ''khams''), translated as element during the teachings.</ref> is empty of the adventitious stains,<br>Which are characterized by their total separateness.<br>But it is not empty of the unsurpassed qualities,<br>Which have the character of total inseparability.''<ref>''Sublime Continuum, I, 155''. Translation Adam Pearcey, ''[http://lotsawaschool.org/maitreya_quotes.html Compendium of Quotations VI]''</ref>
+:''The disposition''<ref>(Wyl. ''khams''), translated as ''element'' during the teachings.</ref>'' is empty of the adventitious stains,<br>Which are characterized by their total separateness.<br>But it is not empty of the unsurpassed qualities,<br>Which have the character of total inseparability.''<ref>''Sublime Continuum, I, 155''. Translation Adam Pearcey, ''[http://lotsawaschool.org/maitreya_quotes.html Compendium of Quotations VI]''</ref>
-* ''7<sup>th</sup> teaching, 23-Dec-2008:'' The nature as the great uncompounded which is unchanging and never separated from it&apos;s qualities. <br>'''NOT YET online:''' [http://www.rigpawiki.org/Media/Audio/2008-2009/20081223PH0930KN.mp3 20081223PH0930KN.mp3]<br>See Tibetan: Mipham ''gsung 'bum'', Vol 4., p. 575-577. English: Duckworth, p.156-158
+* ''7<sup>th</sup> teaching, 23-Dec-2008:'' The nature as the great uncompounded which is unchanging and never separated from it's qualities. <br>'''NOT YET online:''' [http://www.rigpawiki.org/Media/Audio/2008-2009/20081223PH0930KN.mp3 20081223PH0930KN.mp3]<br>See Tibetan: Mipham ''gsung 'bum'', Vol 4., p. 575-577. English: Duckworth, p.156-158
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