A Harmony of Views: Three Songs by Ju Mipham, Changkya Rolpay Dorje, and Chögyam Trungpa

Do different Tibetan Buddhist traditions share an essential, common view? Khenchen Thrangu's practice-oriented explanations of the three songs of the view, translated here, will help to answer that question. The story begins when the great Geluk scholar Changkya Rolpay Dorje wrote a song in the eighteenth century describing the view of the middle way. Later, the nonsectarian polymath Ju Mipham (1846-1911) and the influential Kagyu master Chögyam Trungpa (1959-1987) wrote songs modeled upon ...