Khenjuk

Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche

Khenjuk (Tib. མཁས་འཇུག་, Wyl. mkhas 'jug) — the abbreviated title of The Gateway to Knowledge, an encyclopedic treatise composed by Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche at the turn of the twentieth century, which is often one of the first texts to be taught in a Tibetan Buddhist shedra.

This text has been translated into English by Erik Pema Kunsang, in a four-volume set entitled "Gateway to Knowledge".

Outline

This text is said to teach:

• the vast, the ten topics of knowledge,
• the profound, the four seals, and
• the means of maintaining the profound and vast teachings, the fourfold correct discrimination.

Tibetan Text

• མཁས་པའི་ཚུལ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་སྒོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, mkhas pa'i tshul la 'jug pa'i sgo zhes bya ba'i bstan bcos

Commentaries

• Khenpo Nüden, མཁས་པའི་ཚུལ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་སྒོའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་ལེགས་བཤད་སྣང་བའི་འོད་ཟེར་, mkhas pa'i tshul la 'jug pa'i sgo'i mchan 'grel legs bshad snang ba'i 'od zer

མཁས་པའི་ཚུལ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་སྒོའི་མཆན་འགྲེལ་ལེགས་བཤད་སྣང་བའི་འོད་ཟེར་, mkhas pa'i tshul la 'jug pa'i sgo'i mchan 'grel legs bshad snang ba'i 'od zer

• Lobpön Thekchok Yeshe Dorje, མཁས་འཇུག་གི་ཐུན་མོང་ཐེག་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས་འགའ་ཞིག་ལ་དཔྱད་པ་ལུང་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ, mkhas 'jug gi thun mong theg pa'i chos kyi rnam grangs 'ga' zhig la dpyad pa lung kun las btus pa

མཁས་འཇུག་གི་ཐུན་མོང་ཐེག་པའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས་འགའ་ཞིག་ལ་དཔྱད་པ་ལུང་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ, mkhas 'jug gi thun mong theg pa'i chos kyi rnam grangs 'ga' zhig la dpyad pa lung kun las btus pa

Translations

This text has been translated into English by Erik Pema Kunsang in a four-volume set:

• Mipham Rinpoche, Gateway to Knowledge, vol. I, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1997
• Mipham Rinpoche, Gateway to Knowledge, vol. II, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2000
• Mipham Rinpoche, Gateway to Knowledge, vol. III, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2002
• Mipham Rinpoche, Gateway to Knowledge, vol. IV, Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 2012

See also

• Necklace of Clear Understanding

Further Reading

• Steven Goodman, Mi-pham rgya mtsho: An Account of His life, the Printing of His Works, and the Structure of His Treatise entitled mKhas pa'i tshul la 'jug pa'i sgo, Windhorse I, 1981
• Ways of Enlightenment, Dharma Publishing, 1993
• L.S. Kawamura, 'The Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra and Mi pham's mKhas 'jug' in Ernst Steinkellner and Helmut Tauscher (ed.), Contributions on Tibetan and Buddhist Religion and Philosophy (Proceedings of the Csoma de Koros Symposium Held at Velm-Vienna, Austria, 13-19 September 1981), Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass 1995

External Links

• Four logical arguments of the Middle Way from the Khenjuk, Lotsawa House
• Individual Selflessness from the Khenjuk, Lotsawa House