Sacred Text
The Precious Garland of the Sublime Path
ལམ་མཆོག་རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ།
Gampopa
Gampopa's essential manual of pith instructions, organizing the complete Buddhist path into 28 categories of concise oral advice. From foundational renunciation to the ultimate recognition of spontaneous great bliss, it unites the Kadampa graduated path with Mahamudra realization.
11 chapters6 parts14k wordsKagyu
Part 1
Foundations of the Path
1
The Ten Kinds of Waste and the Ten Necessary Things
995 wordsཆུད་ཟོས་བཅུ་དང་དགོས་པ་བཅུ།
precious human birthimpermanencerenunciationdevotion+4 more
2
Things to Keep, Things to Give Up, and Things Not to Reject
1,139 wordsབསྟེན་པར་བྱ་བ་དང་སྤང་བར་བྱ་བ་དང་དོར་མི་བྱ་བ།
spiritual teacherhermitagesolitudeeight worldly concerns+5 more
Part 2
The Training of the Path
Part 3
Discernment and Self-Correction
Part 4
Signs and Benchmarks
7
Signs of a Sublime Personage and Useless Things
1,153 wordsསྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པའི་རྟགས་དང་ཕན་མེད།
sublime personagehumilitycontentmentsamaya+6 more
8
Self-Destruction, Self-Kindness, and Correct Qualities
1,396 wordsརང་ལ་གནོད་པ་དང་རང་ལ་ཕན་པ་དང་ཡང་དག།
self-destructionself-kindnessthree capacitiesview meditation conduct+6 more
Part 5
The Refinement of Practice
9
Delusions of Practitioners, Necessities, and Unnecessary Things
1,495 wordsསྒོམ་ཆེན་གྱི་འཁྲུལ་པ་དང་དགོས་པ་དང་དགོས་མེད།
self-deceptionsolitudevowsnatural state+6 more
10
Superiority, Excellence, and the Virtues of the Sacred Dharma
1,584 wordsམཆོག་དང་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ་དང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཡོན་ཏན།
superiorityprecious human birthmeditationconditioned and unconditioned virtue+7 more
Part 6