Name/Title
Bob McCallum's Notebooks and PapersEntry/Object ID
2020.1.1Scope and Content
Two boxes of Robert (Bob) Bruce McCallum's notebooks, papers, and photocopied documents.
Detailed contents:
Robert (Bob) Bruce McCallum, Box 2020.1.1a
--Abhidhamma Exposition: Bardo photocopy or typed rough draft.
--Abhidhammatha Sangaha, work done on the freighter Zygmunt Starry Sept 75-Jan 76, from a teaching course given by Ven Namgyal Rimpoche, handwritten notes taken by Paul Curtis.
--Brief notes on Thangka Painting and Drawing (photocopy; 4 pages of loose legal paper).
--Deities; printed images, and a deity sketched in white on black cloth approx 24x24”.
--A Discourse of Seeing (photocopy).
--Dying, death, and rebirth, pages 108-154 of The Diamond Healing by Terry Clifford (photocopy); Bardo Teachings, the way of death and rebirth by Ven Lama Lodo, Snow Lion Pub, NY (photocopy); The transformation yoga, a chapter from the Six Yogas of Naropa (photocopy); Death and Rebirth notes from lectures given by Ven Namgyal Rinpoche March 1981, and more notes on Reincarnation and Rebirth, some handwritten and some photocopied text; Prayer of the Powa Lineage; Meditation of Dorje Sempa; the Teaching of Powa; parts from the Wish-Fulfilling Golden Sun of the Mahayana Thought Training; the Dewachen Menlamof the scholar and siddha Raga Ahsay.
--Foundational Practices: excerpts from the Chariot for Travelling the Supreme Path by the IXth Karmapa (small book).
--Green journal containing handwritten notes of unidentified content.
--Handwritten notes compiled by Karma Thegchen Norbu at Kinmount in a Retreat Mar 18-25, 1986.
--Handwritten notes from a Course on Judaism given by Ven Namgyal Rimpoche Jan 15/86-Mar 6/86.
--Handwritten notes from Lectures on the Abhidamata Sangaha Chapter 1 by Ven Namgyal Rimpoche, Feb 18-Mar 8, 1986.
--Handwritten notes of a class in spring 1989, no title or topic listed.
--Handwritten notes of a discourse on the Buddhist Teaching of Totality Pt II given by Professor Dawson at retreat Dec 17-20 1985.
--Handwritten notes on The Buddha of Healing.
--Liber Mysterium: Book of Wonders Book I, manuscript by RB MacCallum, handwritten.
--Liber Mysteriorum: Book of Wonders Part II Book II, travellers notes from an amazing journey, 2004, handwritten.
--Liber Mysteriorum: Book of Wonders IV, work copy, study notes to mid KKG, June 2005, handwritten.
--Mandala notes (photocopy; loose legal paper in folder).
--A manual of Abhidhamma, chapter 1 (photocopy) .
--Medicine Buddha; Loka Vido, seer of the worlds; NR 1991 Nov 9-13 Lake Laberge, YT (handwritten / loose papers).
--Sadhana of Samvara Pancadeva (Demchog Five Devas) in the Nigu Tradition; Sri Chakrasamvara tantra (photocopies).
--Six Yogas of Naropa/Dumo Heat (photocopy; loose legal paper).
--Song of Praise, booklet in memory of Ranjung Rigpe Dorje.
--Tibetan manuscript with english translation (photocopy).
--Transcendence: photocopy of some chapters in the book “The Womb, Karma, and Transcendence” plus handwritten lecture notes from “Dedicated to Transcendence” a weekend teaching by Ven Namgyal Rimpoche in 1987, recorded and transcribed by K. Thegchen Norbu.
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Robert (Bob) Bruce McCallum, Box 2020.1.1b
--Bridging the Sutras and Tantras by the First Dalai Lama, Snow Lion, Ithaca, New York (photocopy).
--A Buddhist Marriage Service, Karma Rogdol Pub.
--Concerning the Kalachakra Initiation in America by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, c1981 (photocopy).
--Concise summary of the Anusasana Teachings and accompanying Sadhanas; Sadhana of Shakyamuni .
--Dorje Purba: Fierce [illegible] from the book of the secret heart drop: Sadhana of the Unique Mudra of Vajra Kumara; Sadhana of Fierce Guru; Sadhana of Sri Jajra Bhairava; Sadhana of the Red Shinje; Guardians of Deva Chen; Sadhana and authorization of four-armed Mahakala, mandala of 17 Devas; Wong-Kur of the Mandala of six-armed Mahakala; the authorization of the Raksa protector – Srin-Gon Yab-Yum; Vajra Rain-Clouds Sadhana; Mahakala Sadhana of the Kham Tsang Kargya Sect; Authorization of the Protectors and Bernag Chen, Palden Lhamo, together with five attendants; Secret Daily Mahakala Prayers compiled by Gelongma Palmo Nov 1974 at Dharma Centre.
--The Dhyani Buddhas, and the Amitayus Wongkur.
--Elements of Buddhadharma by Ven Namgyal Rimpoche, Norbu Press (2 copies).
--Eleven Maha Paritta Suttas; and the Buddha of Healing prayer.
--Foundations of the Dharma: Collected Writings, Norbu Press.
--Graveside Discourses by Namgyal Rinpoche, 1975.
--The Great Seal of Voidness, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dharamsala.
--Healing the Seven Senses: notes on lectures given by ven. Namgyal Rinpoche in Banou, France 1977, edited in Toronto 1985 (photocopy).
--The Heavens, National Geographic Map, 1970.
--Holistic Clearing Meditation: an anti-paralytic practice for honest people.
--Kalachakra writings: Kalachakra Initiation, Madison, 1981.
--Karmapakshipa, Lama Minjur Dorje for the Pakshi Latub Realisation, Karma Rogdol Pub.
--Mahamudra, collected teachings, Norbu Press 1987.
--Philosophical Discourses by Ven. Namgyal Rimpoche, Norbu Press (2 copies, plus 1 in 2020.1.1a)
--Sadhana of Fierce Guru; Sadhana of Sri Vajra Bhairava; Six Armed Mahakala Mandala; The authorization of the Raksa protector – Srin-Gon Yab-Yum.
--Shing-Chong Nag Po Je Nang (Guardians of Deva Chen).
--Sixty page untitled booklet on Death: contents include Adhidhamma exposition of death, energy body, sambhogakaya/karmic energies, through bardo, practicalities; Thegchen Norbu, reprinted Nov 2008.
--Teachings on Aspects of the Six Yogas of Naropa and other works, Norbu Press.
--Typed content from untitled retreat/unidentified teacher; chapters titled ‘Monday morning’ to ‘Sunday afternoon’; includes unreferenced, now outdated and largely discredited medical theories (e.g. “Schizophrenics are made at the breast”), which may be of interest for historical value.
