Jewel Ornament of Liberation
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Gampopa
The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Tib. དྭགས་པོ་ཐར་རྒྱན་, Dakpo Targyen; or Tib. དམ་ཆོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ཐར་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན་, Wyl. dwags po thar rgyan, or dam chos yid bzhin nor bu rin po che'i rgyan), or Ornament of Precious Liberation is a key text in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism that is said to capture the essence of both the Kadampa and Kagyüpa lineages of Mahayana teachings. The text was written by Gampopa, the foremost disciple of Milarepa.
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Outline
The text is structured around the following points:
- The cause is the buddha nature.
- The support is the most precious human body.
- The circumstance is the spiritual friend.
- The method consists of his instructions.
- The result consists of the kayas of perfect buddhahood.
- The activity is the spontaneous accomplishment of beings’ benefit.
Tibetan Text
Translations
- Gampopa, Ornament of Precious Liberation, translated by Ken Holmes, Wisdom, 2017
- Gampopa, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation : the Wish-fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings, translated Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche, Snow Lion, 1998
- sGam Po Pa, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, translated by Herbert V. Guenther, Shambhala, 1986
Commentaries
In English
- Ringu Tulku, Path to Buddhahood: Teachings on Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation, Shambhala, 2003
References
Further Reading
- David Seyfort Ruegg, ‘A Propos of a Recent Contribution to Tibetan and Buddhist Studies’ in Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 82, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1962), pp. 320- 331
External Links
- Template:TBRC
- - Dharmadownload.net
- དྭགས་པོ་ཐར་རྒྱན། - Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation in Tibetan
Videos
- The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje's teachings on the Jewel Ornament of Liberation, 2014
- The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje's teachings on the Jewel Ornament of Liberation, 2015