16 Facts About Ju Mipham

Jamgon Ju Mipham Gyatso, or Mipham Jamyang Namgyal Gyamtso was a very influential philosopher and polymath of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Ju Mipham wrote over 32 volumes on topics such as painting, poetics, sculpture, alchemy, medicine, logic, philosophy and tantra.

Ju Mipham is considered one of the leading figures in the Ri-me movement in Tibet.

Ju Mipham the Great was born to an aristocratic family in 1846 in the Derge Principality of Kham or Eastern Tibet.

Ju Mipham was recognized as an exceptional child from a young age, memorizing texts as early as age six.

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Ju Mipham made many medicinal pills blessed with Manjushri's mantra, and many miraculous signs were said to have been manifest.

Ju Mipham went to many lamas to obtain the necessary lungs, but he needed no study or teachings for any texts.

Ju Mipham was "a luminary of the nineteenth century Nyingma renaissance and Rime movement ecumenical movement, which started in the Kham region of eastern Tibet".

Unlike Tsongkhapa who held that emptiness, as an absolute negation, was the definitive reality and view, Ju Mipham sees coalescence of gnosis and emptiness, form and emptiness, etc.

Ju Mipham developed a twofold model of the Buddhist two truths doctrine.

Ju Mipham's writings comprise works on a wide range of subjects, covering almost every science known to his milieu.

Together with Rongzompa and Longchenpa, Ju Mipham is considered to be one of the three "omniscient" writers of the Nyingma tradition.

Ju Mipham showed particular interest in the Kalachakra and the kingdom of Shambhala, and one of his last and most extensive of his esoteric works are his two volumes of commentary, initiation and sadhana related to the Kalachakra Tantra, the esoteric teaching from Shambhala.

Ju Mipham wrote extensively about astrology which was, in his words, a "delightful game" that he mastered in his teens but later applied to more serious topics such as medicine; these two topics, with various texts on more or less related topics of divination, occupy perhaps 2,000 pages of his writing.

When some of his scholarly rivals thought it inappropriate for a monk to devote so much time to matters of future events, Ju Mipham wrote a short essay explaining the purpose of divination, citing sources in the Sutras and Tantras where the utility and value of divination are explained.

Ju Mipham is known as Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and is the spiritual head of Shambhala International.