A Harmony of Views
Translated by Thrangu Dharmakara Translation Collab
By Khenchen Thrangu
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Snow Lion08/04/2020Pages: 240Size: 6 x 9ISBN: 9781559394963DetailsDo different Tibetan Buddhist traditions share an essential, common view? Khenchen Thrangu’s practice-oriented explanations of the three songs of the view, translated here, will help to answer that question. The story begins when the great Geluk scholar Changkya Rolpay Dorje wrote a song in the eighteenth century describing the view of the middle way. Later, the nonsectarian polymath Ju Mipham (1846–1912) and the influential Kagyu master Chögyam Trungpa (1939–1987) wrote songs modeled upon his song that describe the views of dzogchen and mahamudra, respectively. Khenchen Thrangu explains that studying the profound view helps to develop the certainty that is necessary to bring meditation practice to fruition. These songs are especially beneficial because of their engaging eloquence, which makes them a delight to read, reread, and memorize. By clarifying the view again and again in this way, they offer continual inspiration to practitioners. Moreover, read together, these songs reveal how the middle way, dzogchen, and mahamudra are harmonious.RelatedCheck items to add to the cart orAuthor BioKhenchen Thrangu is an eminent teacher of the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He was appointed by the Dalai Lama to be the personal tutor for His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa and has authored many books, including Tilopa’s Wisdom, Naropa’s Wisdom, The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer, and Advice from a Yogi.Praise"The three songs here by greatly realized masters from three distinct Tibetan Buddhist traditions show that the famous 'three Great Ones'—Great Madhyamaka, the Great Seal, and the Great Perfection—all come down to the same essential point: the unmistaken realization of mind’s true nature, just as it is. In their clarity and poetic beauty, these songs resemble brilliant ornaments crafted from the pure gold of our innate nature, while the Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche’s lucid comments are like displaying these ornaments in the most conducive vitrines so that they can be viewed and appreciated from all kinds of different angles. These teachings are indispensable for all Buddhist practitioners in order to gain perfect clarity about the profound view of ultimate reality and how it informs our practice." —Karl Brunnhölzl, translator of A Compendium of the Mahāyāna
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