Dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan
One of Gampopa's most enduring works. It was one of the first "stages of the path" (lam rim) texts to be written by a Tibetan, after the genre was introduced by Atiśa through his famous composition Bodhipathapradīpa, The Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
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Other Titles | ~ dwags po thar rgyan ~ Jewel Ornament of Precious Liberation ~ The Jewel Ornament of Liberation |
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Text exists in | ~ Tibetan ~ English |
Literary Genre | ~ Stages of the Teachings - bstan rim ~ Stages of the Path - lam rim |
Gampopa
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As Chögyam Trungpa writes in his foreword: "It is in the flow of karma that this book materialized in 1959 on the very eve of the destruction of the spiritual land of Tibet. Professor Guenther was instrumental in making available the only commentary and guide in English to the bodhisattva tradition of Tibet, Japan, and China. The book remains the classic text of all Buddhists."
sGam.po.pa, who lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, was the organizer of the Kagyü order of Tibetan Buddhism.
Herbert V. Guenther is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Far Eastern Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.
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