Sacred Text
The Jewel Ornament of Liberation
དམ་ཆོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་ཐར་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན།
Gampopa
The complete stages of the path to enlightenment according to the Kagyu tradition. From Buddha nature through the ten bodhisattva grounds, Gampopa synthesizes Kadampa lamrim with Mahamudra, presenting the entire path with systematic precision and profound insight.
22 chapters7 parts51k wordsKagyu
Part 0
Introduction
Part 1
The Primary Cause
Part 2
The Working Basis
Part 3
The Contributory Cause
Part 4
The Method
4
Impermanence
1,908 wordsམི་རྟག་པ།
impermanencedeath meditationfour obstaclesgross and subtle impermanence+4 more
5
The Suffering of Samsara
2,012 wordsའཁོར་བའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ།
suffering of samsarathree types of sufferingsix realmshell realms+6 more
6
Karma and Its Result
3,097 wordsལས་རྒྱུ་འབྲས།
karmaten non-virtuous actionsten virtuous actionsthree types of karma+8 more
7
Loving-Kindness and Compassion
2,711 wordsབྱམས་པ་དང་སྙིང་རྗེ།
loving-kindnesscompassionmaitrikaruna+6 more
8
Refuge and Precepts
2,231 wordsསྐྱབས་འགྲོ།
refugethree jewelsBuddhaDharma+7 more
9
Cultivation of Bodhicitta
2,029 wordsབྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད།
bodhicittaaspiration bodhicittaaction bodhicittaultimate bodhicitta+7 more
10
Training in Aspiration Bodhicitta
1,570 wordsསྨོན་སེམས་སྦྱོང་བ།
aspiration bodhicitta trainingfive trainingsfour unwholesome deedsfour wholesome deeds+4 more
11
Training in Action Bodhicitta
1,045 wordsའཇུག་སེམས་སྦྱོང་བ།
action bodhicitta trainingsix paramitasthree moral trainingsperfection of generosity+6 more
12
The Perfection of Generosity
3,340 wordsསྦྱིན་པའི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
perfection of generositydana paramitasix perfectionsgiving wealth+7 more
13
The Perfection of Moral Ethics
3,166 wordsཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
perfection of moral ethicsshila paramitasix perfectionsmoral discipline+6 more
14
The Perfection of Patience
2,893 wordsབཟོད་པའི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
perfection of patiencekshanti paramitasix perfectionsantidote to anger+6 more
15
The Perfection of Perseverance
2,154 wordsབརྩོན་འགྲུས་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
perseveranceviryaeffortdiligence+6 more
16
The Perfection of Meditative Concentration
2,842 wordsབསམ་གཏན་གྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
meditative concentrationdhyanashamathacalm abiding+6 more
17
The Perfection of Wisdom
3,132 wordsཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།
wisdomprajnaemptinesstwo selves+7 more
18
The Aspects of the Five Paths
1,767 wordsལམ་ལྔའི་རྣམ་གཞག།
five pathspath of accumulationpath of applicationpath of insight+6 more
19
The Ten Bodhisattva Bhumis
1,986 wordsབྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས་བཅུ།
ten bhumisbodhisattva levelsgreat joystainless+8 more
Part 5
The Result
Part 6