The full Title of this book is Lion of Speech: The life of Mipham Rinpoche.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche composed his biography of Jamgön Mipham in 1939. Incorporating much of the material gathered in an earlier biography by Khenpo Kunzang Pelden, one of Mipham’s closest disciples, Khyentse Rinpoche enlarged and enriched his account from two important sources: oral accounts preserved in notes kept by his elder brother Shedrup Tendzin and, most especially, the personal recollections of Lama Ösel Jalü Dorje, who had been Mipham’s devoted personal attendant for thirty-seven years.

Khyentse Rinpoche’s biography of Mipham is in many ways a traditional namthar, an account of the “life and liberation” of a man who is widely considered to be among the greatest scholars and accomplished masters in the history of Tibetan Buddhism. Profoundly reverential in tone, the text is composed in a rich, honorific, literary style, filled with the kind of poetic elegance for which its author is famous.