Path to Buddhahood

Path to Buddhahood

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

The Jewel Ornament of Liberation is regarded by all Tibetan Buddhist schools as one of the most inspiring and comprehensive works of the tradition. Written by Gampopa (born 1079 CE), the main spiritual son of the great hermit Milarepa, this important text lays out the stages of the Buddhist path and explains how an enlightened attitude is strengthened by practicing the six perfections of generosity, discipline, patience, exertion, meditation, and knowledge. (Source: Shambhala Publications)

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Ringu Tulku Rinpoche. Path to Buddhahood: Teachings on Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation. Edited by Maggy Jones, Briona Nic Dhiarmada, and Corinne Segers. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2003. Originally published in French as Et si vous m'expliquiez le bouddhisme? Paris: Nil Editions, 2001.

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https://www.shambhala.com/path-to-buddhahood.html

Texts Translated

Sgam po pa. dam chos yid bzhin nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan. Kathmandu: gam-po-pa library, 2005.

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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.

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• Forewordxi
• Prefacexv
• Acknowledgmentsxix
• Homage to Manjushrixxi
• Introduction1

• 1. The Cause: Buddha Nature7

• 2. The Basis: A Precious Human Life15

• 3. The Condition: The Spiritual Friend23
  • Why We Need a Spiritual Friend24
  • The Different Categories of Spiritual Friends25
  • The Qualities of Ordinary Spiritual Friends26
  • The Master-Disciple Relationship27
  • Receiving the Teachings in the Right Way29

• 4. The Method: The Instructions of the spiritual Friend37
  • First Antidote: Contemplating Impermanence32
  • Second Antidote37
    • Contemplating the Misery of Samsara37
    • Understanding Karma44
  • Third Antidote: Love and Compassion50
    • The Development of Loving-Kindness51
    • The Development of Compassion60
  • Fourth Antidote: Bodhichitta64
    • The Bodhichitta of Aspiration67
    • Refuge67
      • Taking Refuge in the Buddha68
      • Taking Refuge in the Dharma70
      • Taking Refuge in the Sangha70
      • The Three Kayas72
      • The Refuge Ceremony74
    • The Bodhichitta of Commitment76
    • The Bodhisattva Vows76
    • Instructions for Developing the Bodhichitta of Commitment: The Six Paramitas80
      • First Paramita: Generosity82
      • Second Paramita: Ethics or Right Conduct87
      • Third Paramita: Forbearance88
      • Fourth Paramita: Diligence93
      • Fifth Paramita: Meditation99
      • Sixth Paramita: Wisdom108
    • The Five Levels of the Bodhisattva Path138
      • Accumulation139
      • Integration140
      • Insight141
      • Meditation142
      • Complete Accomplishment142
    • The Ten Bodhisattva Levels143

• 5. The Result: perfect Buddhahood149

• 6. The Activities of a Buddha163

• • Conclusion169
  • Dedication of Merit171
  • Notes173
  • Index179

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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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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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Garfield, Jay L. "Ethics." Chap. 9 in Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

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