Wheel of Analytical Meditation

Mipham Rinpoche.

Wheel of Analytical Meditation (T. dpyad sgom 'khor lo ma དཔྱད་སྒོམ་འཁོར་ལོ་མ་, pron. Chegom Khorloma) — a text on analytical meditation composed by Mipham Rinpoche in a single day in 1891. This celebrated verse text offers a practical guide to meditating analytically on the multiplicity, impermanence, suffering nature and selflessness of the aggregates, as an antidote to the mental afflictions (kleśa).

Translations

• Wheel of Analytical Meditation, Lotsawa House, translated by Adam Pearcey, 2004
• Lama Mipham (1987), "Wheel of Analytic Meditation" in Calm and Clear, Dharma Publishing
  • Online: Calm and Clear, Kieth Dowman
  • Softcover: Calm and Clear, Dharma Publishing
• "A Complete Purification of Mind’s activity Called 'The Wheel of Practice of Analytical Investigation (dPyad sgom ’khor lo)'" in Radical Nonduality: Ju Mipham Namgyal Gyatso's Discourse On Reality. Translated by Gregory Forgues. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde. 2024 PDF

Commentaries

• Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Wheel of Investigation: An Explanation of Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche's Instructions for Examining the Mind, Dilgo Khyentse's Collected Works (Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, 2010), Vol. 2, pages 103-132.
• Khenchen Palden Sherab and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal (2019), Uprooting Clinging: A Commentary on Mipham Rinpoche’s Wheel of Analytic Meditation, Dharma Samudra Publisher's page

Related works

The following works are considered as addendums to the Wheel of Analytical Meditation:

• Putting the Instruction on the Purification of Mental Activity into Practice, Lotsawa House

  Mipham Rinpoche elaborates on the practice that he introduced in The Wheel of Analytical Meditation (dpyad sgom 'khor lo ma) by offering further instruction on contemplating how the five aggregates are multiple, impermanent, painful and devoid of self.

• Profound Instruction on the View of the Middle Way, Lotsawa House

  Composed in 1892 and appended to The Wheel of Analytical Meditation (dpyad sgom 'khor lo ma), this instruction continues that text's analysis, extending it to all phenomena. Its central message is that the nature of all things, i.e., appearance and emptiness, can only be fully understood through meditation.

Both of the works above are also translated in:

• Gregory Forgues (2024). Radical Nonduality: Ju Mipham Namgyal Gyatso's Discourse On Reality. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde. PDF

External links

• Wheel of Analytical Meditation, Rigpa Shedra Wiki