Sakyong Mipham

Sakyong Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche (born in 1963 in Bodhgaya, India) is a Buddhist priest.

He was born in the birthplace (place of enlightenment) of the Buddha in India and is the son of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Lady Kunchok Palden. Chögyam Trungpa had Lady Kunchok asked to bless her unborn son, by making a pilgrimage to all the holy places of the Buddha in India, which she did; in Bodhgaya he was born. His earliest Sakyong Mipham spent eight years with his mother in a Tibetan refugee village in northwest India. He went to school in the USA and also spent some time at the University of Oxford in England. In 1987, the Sakyong back to India to study in the traditional manner of Tibetan monks. Practiced for several years, he studied under the care of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Penor Rinpoche ( Palyul ) and Khenpo Namdral. He belongs to the Kagyu and Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

Since 1990 he leads Shambhala International, a school of Tibetan Buddhism with 165 meditation centers worldwide, and teaches Buddhism and Shambhala.

• Sakyong Mipham: Like the vast space. The power of meditation. dtv, 2005, ISBN 3423244453
• Sakyong Mipham: the everyday enlighten. The four Buddhist king way. dtv, 2007, ISBN 3423245867
• Sakyong Mipham: Running with the mind of meditation. Random House, 2013, ISBN 0-307-88817-7
• Sakyong Mipham: The Shambhala Principle: Discovering humanity 's hidden treasure. Harmony, 2013, ISBN 0-7704-3743-5