{"title":"Khenpo Kalsang Dhondup’s “Incomparable Guide,” Translated by Khenpo Kalsang Dhondup and Patrick Dowd","authors":"Kalsang Dhondup, Patrick Dowd","doi":"10.58371/jtl.2023.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58371/jtl.2023.66","url":null,"abstract":"In his poem \"Incomparable Guide\" (ston pa mtshungs med), Khenpo Kalsang Dhondup brings a modern, almost scientific, perspective to the traditional Indo-Tibetan genre of \"hymns of praise\" (Skt. stotra, Tib. bstod pa), a thematically-oriented verse form that may date as far back as the sixth century BCE. The poem offers us an intriguing glimpse at the poetry of a learned Khenpo who writes beautifully, but whose humility has previously prevented him from sharing his work more widely with others.","PeriodicalId":508460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tibetan Literature","volume":"19 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139173101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Origins of the Dzogchen Eleven Words and Meanings","authors":"Khenpo Yeshi","doi":"10.58371/jtl.2023.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58371/jtl.2023.69","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is threefold: to provide a historical overview of Dzogpa Chenpo (rdzogs pa chen po), commonly referred to as the Great Perfection; to translate and interpret Nyima Bum’s (Nyi ma ’bum, 1158-1213) seminal work, his “Introduction” to the Great Perfection: Eleven Words and Meanings (rdzogs pa chen po tshig don bcu gcig pa); and to analyze its impact on later Dzogchen thinkers like Longchen Rabjam (Klong chen rab ’byams, 1308-1364) and Rikzin Gödemchen (Rig ’dzin rGod ldem can, 1337-1408). This paper aims to contribute to the broader understanding of Buddhist literature, with a specific focus on the Dzogchen Nyingthik (Heart Essence) tradition. Dzogchen remains a relatively untapped field of academic study, and this paper aims to illuminate its early development, enriching contemporary understanding among both scholars and practitioners. རྩོམ་ཡིག་འདི་ལ་དགོས་དོན་གསུམ་ཡོད། རྒྱུན་ལྡན་རྫོགས་ཆེན་དུ་འབོད་པའི་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་སྤྱི་བཤད་བྱ་རྒྱུ་དང་། ཉི་མ་འབུམ་(༡༡༥༨-༡༢༡༣)གྱི་གསུང་གི་རྩ་བ་སྟེ་རྫོགས་ཆེན་ངོ་སྤྲོད་དང་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ཚིག་དོན་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ་བསྒྱུར་འགྲེལ། དེ་ཡིས་ཕྱིས་ཀྱི་རྫོགས་ཆེན་པ་ཀློང་ཆེན་རབ་འབྱམས་པ་(༡༣༠༨-༡༣༦༤)དང་རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ་(༡༣༣༧-༡༤༠༨)ལྟ་བུར་ཤུགས་རྐྱེན་ཅི་འཐེབས་ལ་དཔྱད་ཞིབ། དེ་ནས་རྫོགས་ཆེན་སྙིང་ཐིག་གི་ཕྱག་སྲོལ་གཙོར་བཟུང་གིས་སངས་རྒྱས་པའི་རྩོམ་རིགས་ཀྱི་དོན་རྒྱ་ཆེར་རྟོགས་པར་བྱ་རྒྱུ་དང་། ལྟོས་བཅས་ཀྱིས་རྫོགས་ཆེན་གྱི་གཞུང་རྣམས་ཡོངས་གྲགས་ཀྱི་སློབ་གཉེར་བྱ་ཡུལ་དུ་མ་གྱུར་བར་སོང་། རྩོམ་ཡིག་འདིས་མཁས་པ་དང་ཉམས་ལེན་པ་རྣམས་ལ་གཞུང་འདིའི་ཐོག་མའི་འཕེལ་རིམ་དང་དེང་དུས་གོ་རྟོགས་ཆེ་རུ་འགྲོ་བའི་སྐོར་གསལ་བྱེད་བྱེད་པ་བཅས་སུ་དམིགས་ཡོད།","PeriodicalId":508460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tibetan Literature","volume":"51 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139174623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interview with Karma Phuntsho","authors":"K. Phuntsho","doi":"10.58371/jtl.2023.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.58371/jtl.2023.74","url":null,"abstract":"Karma Phuntsho discusses the golden age of Bhutanese literature, Bhutan’s history and vibrant oral culture, and the challenges and opportunities of cultural preservation and entrepreneurship in present-day Bhutan. Watch our accompanying video of Karma Phuntsho. Explore the Bhutan Cultural Library at the University of Virginia. Enjoy some Tsangmo poems here from UVA's Mandala Library: 1. An Exchange of Antagonizing Tsangmo Poems, from Lhamo and Phurpa Lhamo 2. An Exchange of Befriending Tsangmo Poems, Lhamo and Phurpa Lhamo 3. Affectionate and Antagonizing Tsangmo Poetry, from Ap Nakchung and Friends.","PeriodicalId":508460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tibetan Literature","volume":"7 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139173590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}