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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 Prajñāvarman.

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The Ornament of the Middle Way ( དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་, dbu ma rgyan)

Commentaries

Indian

Shantarakshita, Commentary on the Ornament of the Middle Way (Skt. Madhyamakālamkāra-vṛtti; Wyl. dbu ma'i rgyan gyi 'grel pa)
Kamalashila, Commentary on the Difficult Points of the Ornament of the Middle Way (Skt. Madhyamakālaṅkāra-pañjikā;

དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་གྱི་དཀའ་གྲེལ་, Wyl. dbu ma'i rgyan gyi dka' 'grel)

Tibetan

Gyaltsab Darma Rinchen, Remembering “The Ornament of the Middle Way” (dbu ma rgyan gyi brjed byang)
- English translation: Remembering “The Ornament of the Middle Way”, in Blumenthal, James, The Ornament of the Middle Way: A Study of the Madhyamaka Thought of Shantarakshita, Snow Lion, 2004
Mipham Rinpoche, Words to Delight My Teacher Manjughosha ( དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་གྱི་རྣམ་བཤད་འཇམ་དབྱངས་བླ་མ་དགྱེས་པའི་ཞལ་ལུང་, dbu ma rgyan gyi rnam bshad 'jam dbyangs bla ma dgyes pa'i zhal lung
- English translation: Mipham Rinpoche and Shantarakshita, Adornment of the Middle Way, Shambhala Publications, 2005
- English translation: Ju Mipham Rinpoche and Thomas H. Doctor, Speech of Delight, Snow Lion Publications, 2004
Lobzang Dongak Chökyi Gyatso, The Sword to Cut Through False Views ( 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)

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Rigpa Shedra West, Dzogchen Beara, 2 to 13 October, 2004
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Rigpa Shedra West, Lerab Ling, 13 to 21 September, 2005
Khenpo Sönam Tobden, Rigpa Shedra East, 11 December 2007 to 29 March, 2008

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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.
-It was translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan by [[Yeshe De]] under the guidance of [[acharya]] [[Śīlendrabodhi]]. [[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 [[Prajñāvarman]].
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