Lopon Karma Phuntso's Introduction of Kyoton's Life and Works

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2023 Buddha-Nature Conference Kathmandu

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Khenpo Gyurme Tshultrim and Lopon Karma Phuntsho launch the new book The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim (སྐྱོ་སྟོན་སྨོན་ལམ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་མཛད་རྣམ་དང་གསུང་རྩོམ།). Following the formal release, Lopon Karma Phuntsho presents the account of why and how the book was created. The original texts, he shares, are in dbu med manuscript and were discovered about twenty years ago in the Nechu temple of Drepung monastery in Tibet. The texts are in volumes 50 and 61 of the Collection of Kadam Writings published by Paltsek Bodyig Penying Zhibjugkhang. The original texts, which are in archaic and difficult dbu med script with many abbreviations, were rendered in modern computer typeset so as to make the writings easily available to all Tibetan readers.

The book contains 32 works, including 30 titles attributed to Kyotön Monlam Tshultrim, one biography of Kyotön by his student, and a long introduction by the editor in English. He mentions how some titles from the two volumes from Drepung were excluded from this book, as they appear to be by other authors. He also explains the significance of Narthang and the early Kadam tradition for buddha-nature studies and how Kyotön lived at an interesting period of Tibetan religious history. The interest to publish the writings of this master came about as Kyotön has written several short and interesting works related to buddha-nature, which present the meditative tradition of Maitreya's teachings passed down from Tsen Khawoche.

The typeset was created and the layout and design done by the staff of Loden Foundation, which published the book with funding from Tsadra Foundation.

About the video

Featuring	Karma Phuntsho
Creator	Tsadra Foundation
Director	Perman, M.
Producer	Tsadra Foundation
Event	2023 Buddha-Nature Conference Kathmandu (2 June 2023, Shechen Monastery, Kathmandu)
Related Website	Buddha-Nature
Creation Date	2 June 2023
Citation	Karma Phuntsho. "Lopon Karma Phuntso's Introduction of Kyoton's Life and Works." 2023 Buddha-Nature Conference, Shechen Monastery, Kathmandu. Produced by the Tsadra Foundation Research Department. Video,