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Dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan
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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Thub pa'i dgongs pa rab tu gsal ba
Clarifying the Sage's Intent (Thub pa’i dgongs pa rab tu gsal ba) is one of the major doctrinal treatises of Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182-1251). Among all the writings of Sakya Pandita (or Sapan, for short), it formulates most completely the theory and practice of the Mahāyāna. It was meant to gradually lead and inspire the student to practice the bodhisattva’s path, and its perennial importance within the Sakya tradition is underlined by the fact that it is the required text for the first teaching of each new Sakya Trizin after his enthronement. (Adapted from Stages of the Buddha's Teachings: Three Key Texts, 16)
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Be'u bum sngon po
The Blue Compendium contains lamrim instructions from the lineage of Dromtönpa and Potowa. These early teachers did not commit their instructions to writing. However, a tradition of written lamrim and tenrim as well as lojong ("mind training") works emerged within the next two generations of Kadampa teachers. This development went hand in hand with a transition from individual instructions for selected disciples (Ikog chos) to public teachings for a wider audience (tshogs chos). It can therefore be viewed as an attempt to preserve the teaching in an authentic form while at the same time making it accessible to a larger public. It is in this context that the Blue Compendium was composed, not long after its sister text, the Dharma Exemplified: A Heap of Jewels (Dpe chos rin chen spungs pa), which stems from the same generation and teaching lineage. Tradition regards these two works as the seminal treatises of their genre, and they have been described as complementing each other, containing the meaning and the examples, respectively, of the lamrim teachings. Both were composed in the early twelfth century by disciples of Potowa following his death in order to preserve his teachings. (Stages of the Buddha's Teachings: Three Key Texts, translator's introduction, 6)
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Bstan pa la 'jug pa'i rim pa ston pa'i gzhung
glang ri ba thub bstan sbyin pa. Bstan pa la 'jug pa'i rim pa ston pa'i gzhung. bod kyi gtsug lag gces btus, 10. bod kyi gtsug lag zhib dpyod khang, 2009.
གླང་རི་བ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་སྦྱིན་པ། བསྟན་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་རིམ་པ་སྟོན་པའི་གཞུང་། བོད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ལག་གཅེས་བཏུས། ༡༠ བོད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ལག་ཞིབ་དཔྱོད་ཁང་།
Thupten Jinpa. Stages of the Doctrine: 3 Works. Tibetan Classics Series, 10. New Delhi: Institute of Tibetan Classics, 2009.
