Khenjuk

Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche

Khenjuk (T. mkhas 'jug མཁས་འཇུག་), or Gateway to Knowledge. An encyclopedic treatise composed by Mipham Rinpoche at the turn of the twentieth century.

This text presents the major topics of the three pitakas in condensed form. It presents the Abhidharma from both a Hinayana and Mahayana point of view, as well as the basics of prajnaparamita and Madhyamaka philosophy.

This text is often one of the first texts to be taught in the shedras ("study colleges") of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.

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

(For the text of the same name composed by Sakya Pandita, see Sapan Khenjuk.)

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

Tibetan 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

English translation

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
• The Buddhist Psychology of Awakening

Further reading

• Dharma Publishing Editors (1993), Ways of Enlightenment, Berkeley, CA: Dharma Publishing CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
• Goodman, Steven D. (2020), The Buddhist Psychology of Awakening: An In-Depth Guide to the Abhidharma, Shambhala Publications 
• 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
• 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
• Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, Middle-way Meditation Instructions: Developing Compassion through Wisdom, Based on Mipham Rinpoche’s Gateway to Knowledge (Tib. mkhs ‘jug). Translated by Ken and Katia Holmes. Namo Buddha 2001

External links

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