Khenpo Namdrol 2008 Teachings on Buddha Nature
Khenchen Namdrol Rinpoche is currently teaching the Rigpa Shedra on Mipham Rinpoche's work on buddha nature (Skt. sugatagarbha): The Lion's Roar of the Great Harmony of Emptiness and 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.
Recorded during Shedra East 2008-2009 in Pharping, Nepal
Study Material
Douglas Duckworth has recently published an English translation of the text we are studying:
Douglas S. 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 of the Great Harmony of Emptiness and Sugatagarbha
By Jamgön Mipam Rinpoche
Prologue
- 1st teaching, 16-Dec-2008: How is buddha nature taught in sutra, tantra and Dzogchen?
online: 20081216PH0930KN.mp3
Introduction
- 2nd teaching, 17-Dec-2008: Our teacher the Buddha has taught on buddha nature emphazising sugatagarbha's essence (ngo bo) by teaching on emptiness. On other occasions he gave clarifications on it's nature (rang bzhin) by explaining it's primordially present qualitites. It is crucial to understand that those two aspects are in union.
NOT online yet (upload is incomplete, please wait) 20081217PH0930KN.mp3
See Tibetan: Mipham gsung 'bum, Vol 4., p. 564-565. English: Duckworth, p.147-148