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    A Garland of Views: A Guide to View, Meditation, and Result in the Nine Vehicles
    A Garland of Views: A Guide to View, Meditation, and Result in the Nine Vehicles
    A Garland of Views: A Guide to View, Meditation, and Result in the Nine Vehicles
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    A Garland of Views: A Guide to View, Meditation, and Result in the Nine Vehicles

    By Padmasambhava, Jamgon Mipham and Padmakara Translation Group

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    A Garland of Views presents both a concise commentary by the eighth-century Indian Buddhist master Padmasambhava on a chapter from the Guhyagarbha Tantra on the different Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical views, including the Great Perfection (Dzogchen), and an explicative commentary on Padmasambhava’s text by the nineteenth-century scholar Jamgön Mipham (1846–1912).

    Padmasambhava’s text is a core text of the Nyingma tradition because it provides the basis for the system of nine vehicles (three sutra vehicles and six tantra vehicles) that subsequently became the accepted way of classifying the different Buddhist paths in the Nyingma tradition.

    Mipham’s commentary is the one most commonly used to explain Padmasambhava’s teaching. Mipham is well known for his prolific, lucid, and original writings on many subjects, including science, medicine, and philosophy, in addition to Tibetan Buddhist practice and theory.
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    PublisherShambhala
    Release dateApr 5, 2016
    ISBN9780834840065
    A Garland of Views: A Guide to View, Meditation, and Result in the Nine Vehicles
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    Padmasambhava

    GURU PADMASAMBHAVA was miraculously born within a blossoming lotus flower on the shore of Lake Dhanakosha in the northwest of Uddiyana. Known as Padmasambhava, the Lotus-Born, he grew to adulthood in the kingdom of Uddiyana and travelled extensively thereafter through ancient India, in search of realized masters of sutra and tantra with whom to study the Dharma. The Lotus-Born Guru then travelled to Nepal, where he engaged in rigorous practices and extraordinary displays of compassion. Finally, he reached Tibet at the invitation of the renowned Dharma King Trisong Detsen, taking teachings with him that would inspire and transform, and that continue to do so to this day.

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      A Garland of Views - Padmasambhava

      This unique and classic text composed by Guru Padmasambhava has been transmitted, studied, and revered by Tibetans for centuries. A pithy guide to the View and the nine spiritual vehicles, culminating in Dzogpachenpo, the Great Perfection, it is accompanied by indispensable clarifications from the peerless Mipham Rinpoche. It must be read by anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the ancient tradition of Tibet’s extraordinary Buddhist wisdom.

      —Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

      "A Garland of Views is a great manual for traveling the Dzogpachenpo path of the early Translation School of Tibetan Buddhism. With detailed insights, it elucidates how all the yanas are stepping-stones to the summit of Great Perfection, the realization of Samantabhadra. This is the way of great teachers such as Guru Padmasambhava, Vimalamitra, and Longchenpa, and what they have taught throughout history. I am delighted that Padmakara has made a text like this available to Western audiences so readers can comprehend the extensive teachings on the Dzogpachenpo lineage. It will greatly serve the transplantation of buddhadharma in the West."

      —Dzigar Kongtrül, author of It’s Up to You

      ABOUT THE BOOK

      A Garland of Views presents both a concise commentary by the eighth-century Indian Buddhist master Padmasambhava on a chapter from the Guhyagarbha Tantra on the different Buddhist and non-Buddhist philosophical views, including the Great Perfection (Dzogchen), and an explicative commentary on Padmasambhava’s text by the nineteenth-century scholar Jamgön Mipham (1846–1912). Padmasambhava’s text is a core text of the Nyingma tradition because it provides the basis for the system of nine vehicles (three sutra vehicles and six tantra vehicles) that subsequently became the accepted way of classifying the different Buddhist paths in the Nyingma tradition. Mipham’s commentary is the one most commonly used to explain Padmasambhava’s teaching. Mipham is well known for his prolific, lucid, and original writings on many subjects, including science, medicine, and philosophy, in addition to Tibetan Buddhist practice and theory.

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      Buddha Śākyamuni

      Guru Rinpoche

      A GARLAND OF VIEWS

      A GUIDE TO VIEW, MEDITATION, AND RESULT IN THE NINE VEHICLES

      Padmasambhava’s classic text

      with a commentary by

      JAMGÖN MIPHAM

      TRANSLATED BY THE PADMAKARA TRANSLATION GROUP

      SHAMBHALA

      BOSTON & LONDON

      2015

      Shambhala Publications, Inc.

      Horticultural Hall

      300 Massachusetts Avenue

      Boston, Massachusetts 02115

      www.shambhala.com

      © 2015 by the Padmakara Translation Group

      Cover design: Gopa & Ted2, Inc.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Padma Sambhava, approximately 717 to approximately 762, author.

      A garland of views: a guide to view, meditation, and result in the nine vehicles: Padmasambhava’s classic text with a commentary by Jamgön Mipham / Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group.—First edition.

      pages cm.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Translated from Tibetan.

      eISBN 978-0-8348-4006-5

      ISBN 978-1-61180-296-2 (hardback)

      1. Rñin-ma-pa (Sect)—Doctrines—Early works to 1800. I. Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho, ’Jam-mgon ’Ju, 1846–1912. II. Padma Sambhava, approximately 717 to approximately 762. Man ngag lta ba’i phreng ba. III. Padma Sambhava, approximately 717 to approximately 762. Man ngag lta ba’i phreng ba. English. IV. Comité de traduction Padmakara. V. Title.

      BQ7950.P324M3613 2015

      294.3′923—dc23

      2015009884

      The Padmakara Translation Group gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Tsadra Foundation in sponsoring the translation and preparation of this book.

      Contents

      Publisher’s Note

      Topical Outline of A Treasury of Gems

      Foreword

      Translator’s Introduction

      A Garland of Views, A Pith Instruction by Padmasambhava

      A Treasury of Gems, A Commentary by Jamgön Mipham

      Notes

      Glossary

      Bibliography

      Index

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      Topical Outline of A Treasury of Gems

      I. Introduction

      A. Explanation of the title

      B. Expression of veneration

      II. The main body of the text

      A. Explanation of the different views

      1. Explanation of non-Buddhists’ views

      a. Brief introduction

      b. Detailed explanation

      i. Explanation of the unreflective and the materialists

      ii. Explanation of the nihilistic extremists and eternalistic extremists

      2. Explanation of Buddhists’ views

      a. Brief introduction

      b. Detailed explanation

      i. Presentation of the vehicle of characteristics

      A) Brief introduction

      B) Detailed explanation

      1) Explanation of the Listener Vehicle

      2) Explanation of the Solitary Realizer Vehicle

      3) Explanation of the Bodhisattva Vehicle

      ii. Presentation of the Mantra Vehicle

      A) Brief introduction

      B) Detailed explanation

      1) Presentation of Kriyātantra

      2) Presentation of Ubhayatantra

      3) Presentation of Yogatantra

      a) Brief introduction

      b) Detailed explanation

      i) Presentation of the outer Yogatantra

      ii) Presentation of the inner Yogatantra

      (A) Brief introduction

      (B) Detailed explanation

      (1) A general explanation of the three methods

      (a) The method of generation

      (b) The method of perfection

      (c) The method of the Great Perfection

      (2) A specific explanation of the avenues for applying the three methods

      (a) The four kinds of realization

      (b) The three characteristics

      (c) The four branches

      (d) The four stages of entering the ma ṇ ḍ ala

      B. An explanation of the different kinds of yogic disciplines

      1. Brief introduction

      2. Detailed explanation

      III. Conclusion

      A. The disciples for whom these instructions were intended

      B. Colophon marking the completion of the text

      Foreword

      The great Indian master Padmasambhava is considered to be an emanation of Buddha Shakyamuni, who predicted that he would be a great propagator of the tantric teachings in this world. He was instrumental, along with other great masters, in establishing the Buddha’s teachings in Tibet in the eighth century. So preeminent was his influence that ever since he has been revered in the Land of Snows as Guru Rinpoche, the Precious Teacher.

      While most of the numerous teachings that he gave during his stay in Tibet were hidden as treasure by his disciples, to be rediscovered later by their emanations in accordance with the Guru’s predictions, this text is unusual in that it has come down to us through the oral lineage, passed on from master to disciple over the centuries. In it, Guru Rinpoche gives an account of the different views held by the various Buddhist schools and by non-Buddhists. If we wish to attain awakening or buddhahood, adopting the right view is crucial to the practice of the path, for as Mipham Rinpoche has pointed out, it is necessary for us to see properly if our feet are to take us in the right direction. It is by gaining a knowledge of the different views that we can know which views should be rejected and which views will most benefit us in our progress on the spiritual path that leads to our becoming a buddha.

      Although an intellectual understanding of the view of the Middle Way, for example, one arrived at by employing analysis and debate, is certainly useful in serving as a basic foundation for establishing the correct view, Guru Rinpoche’s intention in this text is not to provide us with a subject for academic discussion but rather to inspire us to practice the Buddhist path sincerely, with the aim of attaining buddhahood and benefiting all those whose erroneous views have led them into their present condition of obscuration and suffering.

      I am very happy that the Padmakara Translation Group has made a new translation of this precious work available for English readers, along with the illuminating commentary of Mipham Rinpoche, and I hope that all who read it will find in it the inspiration necessary in order to progress in their spiritual practice, to become awakened as did all the buddhas in the past.

      Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche

      Translator’s Introduction

      From the time he first began to teach the Dharma, Buddha Śākyamuni recognized in his followers the very human need to order things into neat categories. In an age when the teachings were yet to be preserved in written form, the recording and broadcasting of the Buddha’s word depended on his disciples’ memories. For those who did not have the arhats’ superhuman powers of retention, breaking the different subjects down into categories must have been a valuable aid. A tradition of enumeration and classification was thus established and was further developed and refined by the great Indian masters during the centuries that followed.

      With the introduction of Buddhism into Tibet in

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