Ornament of Precious Liberation (Holmes)

Ornament of Precious Liberation (Holmes)

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

Ornament of Precious Liberation is a spiritual and literary treasure of Tibetan Buddhism and of the Kagyü lineage in particular. Laying out step by step the path to buddhahood that is open to us all, to read Gompopa's text is like receiving the teachings directly from the master himself.

      It is a quintessential guide to enlightenment that students will return to again and again for its insights into living an awakened life. (Source: Wisdom Publications)

This publication is an updated version of the translation found in Stages of the Buddha's Teachings: Three Key Texts.

Citation

Holmes, Ken, trans. Ornament of Precious Liberation. By Gampopa (sgam po pa). Edited by Thupten Jinpa. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2017.

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https://www.wisdompubs.org/book/ornament-precious-liberation

Texts Translated

1. Sgam po pa. dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan.
   1. rtsib ri woodblocks preserved in Solukhumbu Monastery of northern Nepal.
   2. Palpung edition. Thimpu, 1985.
   3. For digital edition see

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Translation of

 

Dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyanདམ་ཆོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ཐར་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན།

One of Gampopa's (b. 1079 - d. 1153) 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. Sometimes called the Dakpo Targyen (དྭགས་པོ་ཐར་རྒྱན།), Thar pa rin po che'i rgyan (ཐར་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན།) or simply Targyen (ཐར་རྒྱན། ) for short, is one of the core Lamrim treatises of the Kagyu school by one of the early founders of the Kagyu tradition, student of Milarepa in the 12th century. The text presents a graduated path to enlightenment, synthesizing Kadam teachings of Atisha and Mahamudra teachings of Milarepa and Marpa.

Text

• Foreword by His Holiness the Karmapavii
• Editor’s Prefaceix
• Translator’s Introduction1

• Ornament of Precious Liberation: A Wish-Fulfilling Gem of Sublime Dharma
• Gampopa Sonam Rinchen (1079–1153)
  • Author’s Preface11

• I. The Prime Cause
  • 1. Buddha Nature15
• II. The Basis
  • 2. A Precious Human Existence25
• III. The Condition
  • 3. Relying on the Dharma Master37
• IV. The Means: The Dharma Master’s Instruction
  • 4. The Impermanence of Conditioned Existence47
  • 5. The Suffering of Samsara59
  • 6. Karma and Its Effects77
  • 7. Loving Kindness and Compassion89
  • 8. Taking Refuge99
  • 9. The Proper Adoption of Bodhicitta111
  • 10. Precepts for Generating Aspiring Bodhicitta145
  • 11. Presentation of the Six Perfections151
  • 12. The Perfection of Generosity155
  • 13. The Perfection of Moral Discipline169
  • 14. The Perfection of Forbearance181
  • 15. The Perfection of Diligence191
  • 16. The Perfection of Meditative Concentration199
  • 17. The Perfection of Wisdom215
  • 18. The Presentation of the [Five] Paths247
  • 19. The Presentation of the Levels253
• V. The Result
  • 20. The Bodies of Perfect Buddhahood275
• VI. Enlightened Activities of the Buddhas
  • 21. Enlightened Activities of the Buddhas291

• Notes297
• Glossary319
• Bibliography331
• Index341
• About the Contributors357

Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (slob dpon chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes). Bodhipathapradīpa [बोधिपथप्रदीप]. byang chub lam gyi sgron ma [བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མ།]. [A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]. Tengyur, RKTST 3288 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3288&typ=2.

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib བཀའ་གདམས་  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Stender, Daniel. "Bodhicitta." In Buddhism and Jainism, edited by K. T. S. Sarao and Jeffery D. Long, 252–54. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, 2017.

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Ringu Tulku. "Bodhicitta." In Śāntidevas "Eintritt in das Leben zur Erleuchtung", transcribed and prepared by Gabriele Hollmann, 171–84. Vol. 3 of Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Hamburg: Universität Hamburg (Weiterbildendes Studium), 1999. https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/4-publikationen/buddhismus-in-geschichte-und-gegenwart/bd3-k10rinpoche.pdf.

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Gelek, Ngawang. Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 8; Concentration. Transcription of Teachings, 2004. Ann Arbor: Jewel Heart, 2008.

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