Jamgön Mipham Gyatso
1846 CE–1912 CE · Modern · Derge region, Kham
1846–1912 CE
Jamgön Mipham Gyatso (1846–1912 CE), usually called Mipham Rinpoche, was the foremost philosopher of the Nyingma school in the modern period and a major figure of the 19th-century nonsectarian (Rimé) movement in eastern Tibet. Born in the Derge region of Kham, a student of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, he wrote influential commentaries across the whole range of Buddhist learning—Madhyamaka, epistemology, tantra, and Dzogchen—and gave the Nyingma tradition a systematic scholastic literature of its own. He is a securely historical and well-documented figure whose works remain central to Nyingma study.
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Derge region, Kham
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Birthplace of Jamgön Mipham Gyatso.
About Derge region, Kham
Derge (Dege) is a region of Kham in eastern Tibet (now in Sichuan, China), famous for its great printing house (parkhang) and as a centre of the nineteenth-century non-sectarian (Rimé) movement. It was the birthplace, in 1846, of the Nyingma scholar-polymath Jamgön Ju Mipham Gyatso.
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