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Awakening the Sleeping Buddha
The great Karma Kagyu master, the Twelfth Tai Situ Pema Donyo Nyinje, discusses Mahayana Buddhist thought, focusing first on buddha-nature and bodhicitta.
Tai Situpa, 12th (pad+ma don yod nyin byed). Awakening the Sleeping Buddha. Edited by Lea Terhune. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1996.
Tai Situpa, 12th (pad+ma don yod nyin byed). Awakening the Sleeping Buddha. Edited by Lea Terhune. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1996.;Awakening the Sleeping Buddha;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;Karma Kagyu;Meditation;The Path;Twelfth Tai Situ Pema Dönyö Nyinje;པདྨ་དོན་ཡོད་ཉིན་བྱེད་;pad+ma don yod nyin byed;ta'i si tu bcu gnyis pa;ཏའི་སི་ཏུ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ་;Tai Situpa, 12th;Awakening the Sleeping Buddha
Commentary on The Presentation of Grounds, Paths, and Results
This edited transcript includes a detailed presentation of the five paths (accumulation, junction, seeing, meditation, completion), the two grounds (grounds free from attachment and the Buddha grounds), and the results.
Gyaltsen, Acharya Lama Tenpa. Commentary on The Presentation of Grounds, Paths, and Results in the Casual Vehicle of Characteristics from the Treasury of Knowledge by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas). Root text translation and oral translation by Karl Brunnhölzl. Seattle, WA: Nītārtha Institute, 2004.
Gyaltsen, Acharya Lama Tenpa. Commentary on The Presentation of Grounds, Paths, and Results in the Casual Vehicle of Characteristics from the Treasury of Knowledge by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas). Root text translation and oral translation by Karl Brunnhölzl. Seattle, WA: Nītārtha Institute, 2004.;Commentary on The Presentation of Grounds, Paths, and Results;Karma Kagyu;The Path;Vajrayana;nītārtha;Kagyu;Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen;བསྟན་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་;bstan pa rgyal mtshan; Karl Brunnhölzl;Commentary on The Presentation of Grounds, Paths, and Results in the Casual Vehicle of Characteristics from the Treasury of Knowledge by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye;'jam mgon kong sprul
Ornament of Precious Liberation (Holmes)
The classic overview of the stages of the path by the influential Kagyu forefather, Gampopa.
Holmes, Ken, trans. Ornament of Precious Liberation. By Gampopa (sgam po pa). Edited by Thupten Jinpa. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2017.
Holmes, Ken, trans. Ornament of Precious Liberation. By Gampopa (sgam po pa). Edited by Thupten Jinpa. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2017.;Ornament of Precious Liberation (Holmes);Dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan;Kagyu;gotra;The Path;Sgam po pa;Gampopa;སྒམ་པོ་པ་;sgam po pa;dwags po lha rje;bsod nams rin chen;dwags po zla 'od gzhon nu;dwags po rin po che;དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་;བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་;དྭགས་པོ་ཟླ་འོད་གཞོན་ནུ་;དྭགས་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་;Jé Gampopa;Dakpo Rinpoche;Takpo Rinpoche;Je Dakpo Rinpoche;Je Takpo Rinpoche;Da'od Zhonnu;Dagpo Lhaje;The Physician from Dagpo;Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche;The Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo;Ü-pa Tönpa; Ken Holmes;Ornament of Precious Liberation;Sgam po pa
Path to Buddhahood: Teachings on Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation
Teachings by the contemporary Tibetan teacher Ringu Tulku on Gampopa's beloved work on the stages of the path to enlightenment.
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.
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.;Path to Buddhahood: Teachings on Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation;Kagyu;The Path;Dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan;gotra;Sgam po pa;Contemporary;Ringu Tulku;Path to Buddhahood: Teachings on Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation;Sgam po pa
Stages of the Buddha’s Teachings
The "Stages of the Teachings," or tenrim, genre of Tibetan spiritual writing expounds the Mahayana Buddhist teachings as a systematic progression, from the practices required at the start of the bodhisattva's career to the final perfect awakening of buddhahood. The texts in the present volume each exerted seminal influence in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The first text, The Blue Compendium, presents the instructions of the Kadam teacher Potowa (1027/31-1105) as recorded by his student Dölpa (1059-1131). This verse work is followed by Gampopa's (1079-1153) revered Ornament of Precious Liberation, which, with its extensive quotations from the Indian scriptures, remains the most authoritative text on the path to enlightenment within the Kagyü school. The final selection is Clarifying the Sage's Intent, a masterwork by the preeminent sage of the Sakya tradition, Sakya Pandita (1182-1251).
Roesler, Ulrike, Ken Holmes, and David P. Jackson, trans. Stages of the Buddha's Teachings: Three Key Texts. By Dölpa (Dol pa shes rab rgya mtsho), Gampopa (Sgam po pa), and Sakya Paṇḍita (Sa skya paN+Di ta). Library of Tibetan Classics. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2015.
Roesler, Ulrike, Ken Holmes, and David P. Jackson, trans. Stages of the Buddha's Teachings: Three Key Texts. By Dölpa (Dol pa shes rab rgya mtsho), Gampopa (Sgam po pa), and Sakya Paṇḍita (Sa skya paN+Di ta). Library of Tibetan Classics. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2015.;Stages of the Buddha’s Teachings;The Path;Kadam;Kagyu;Sakya;Sgam po pa;Sa skya paN+Di ta;Dol pa shes rab rgya mtsho;Dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan;Dölpa Sherab Gyatso;དོལ་པ་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་;Dol pa shes rab rgya mtsho;dol pa dmar zhur ba;rog shes rab rgya mtsho;དོལ་པ་དམར་ཞུར་བ་;རོག་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་; Gampopa;སྒམ་པོ་པ་;sgam po pa;dwags po lha rje;bsod nams rin chen;dwags po zla 'od gzhon nu;dwags po rin po che;དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་;བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་;དྭགས་པོ་ཟླ་འོད་གཞོན་ནུ་;དྭགས་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་;Jé Gampopa;Dakpo Rinpoche;Takpo Rinpoche;Je Dakpo Rinpoche;Je Takpo Rinpoche;Da'od Zhonnu;Dagpo Lhaje;The Physician from Dagpo;Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche;The Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo;Ü-pa Tönpa;Sakya Paṇḍita;ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ་;sa skya paN+Di ta;kun dga' rgyal mtshan;sa skya paN+Di ta kun dga' rgyal mtshan;ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་;ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜི་ཏ་ཀུན་དགའ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་;Sapaṇ;Sapen;Sapan;Ulrike Roesler;Ken Holmes;David Jackson;Stages of the Buddha’s Teachings: Three Key Texts;dol pa shes rab rgya mtsho;sgam po pa;sa skya paN+Di ta
The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Guenther)
In this skillful translation, Herbert Guenther offers English-speaking readers sGam.po.pa's comprehensive and authoritative exposition of the stages of the Buddhist path. A masterly survey of Tibetan Buddhism, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation explains how an enlightened attitude is strengthened by practicing the six perfections (generosity, discipline, patience, exertion, meditation, and knowledge) and offers a concise presentation of Buddhism as a living experience.
As Chögyam Trungpa writes in his foreword: "It is in the flow of karma that this book materialized in 1959 on the very eve of the destruction of the spiritual land of Tibet. Professor Guenther was instrumental in making available the only commentary and guide in English to the bodhisattva tradition of Tibet, Japan, and China. The book remains the classic text of all Buddhists."
sGam.po.pa, who lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, was the organizer of the Kagyü order of Tibetan Buddhism.
Herbert V. Guenther is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Far Eastern Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.
(Source: back cover)Guenther, Herbert V., trans. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation. By Gampopa (sgam po pa). The Clear Light Series. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1989. First published 1959 by Rider & Co. (London).
Guenther, Herbert V., trans. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation. By Gampopa (sgam po pa). The Clear Light Series. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1989. First published 1959 by Rider & Co. (London).;The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Guenther);Kagyu;Dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan;The Path;gotra;Sgam po pa;Gampopa;སྒམ་པོ་པ་;sgam po pa;dwags po lha rje;bsod nams rin chen;dwags po zla 'od gzhon nu;dwags po rin po che;དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་;བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་;དྭགས་པོ་ཟླ་འོད་གཞོན་ནུ་;དྭགས་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་;Jé Gampopa;Dakpo Rinpoche;Takpo Rinpoche;Je Dakpo Rinpoche;Je Takpo Rinpoche;Da'od Zhonnu;Dagpo Lhaje;The Physician from Dagpo;Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche;The Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo;Ü-pa Tönpa; Herbert V. Guenther;The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Guenther);sgam po pa bsod nams rin chen
The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Könchog Gyaltsen)
The Jewel Ornament of Liberation is a masterwork of Tibetan Buddhism. For more than eight centuries, this text has provided a complete foundation for Buddhist study and practice–covering the initial entry into the path and continuing through to the achievement of Buddhahood. It includes teachings on Buddha-nature, finding a spiritual master, impermanence, karma, the cultivation of bodhicitta, the development of the six perfections, the ten Bodhisattva bhumis, Buddhahood, and the activities of a buddha.
(Source: back cover)
Gyaltsen, Khenpo Könchog, trans. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The Wish-fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings. By Gampopa (sgam po pa). Edited by Ani K. Chodron. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1998.
Gyaltsen, Khenpo Könchog, trans. The Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The Wish-fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings. By Gampopa (sgam po pa). Edited by Ani K. Chodron. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1998.;The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Könchog Gyaltsen);Dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan;Kagyu;Sgam po pa;The Path;gotra;Gampopa;སྒམ་པོ་པ་;sgam po pa;dwags po lha rje;bsod nams rin chen;dwags po zla 'od gzhon nu;dwags po rin po che;དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་;བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་;དྭགས་པོ་ཟླ་འོད་གཞོན་ནུ་;དྭགས་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་;Jé Gampopa;Dakpo Rinpoche;Takpo Rinpoche;Je Dakpo Rinpoche;Je Takpo Rinpoche;Da'od Zhonnu;Dagpo Lhaje;The Physician from Dagpo;Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche;The Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo;Ü-pa Tönpa; Khenchen Konchog Gyaltsen;མཁན་ཆེན་དཀོན་མཆོག་རྒྱལ་མཚན་;mkhan chen dkon mchog rgyal mtshan;Ani K. Trinlay Chödron;The Jewel Ornament of Liberation: The Wish-fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings;sgam po pa
The Light of Wisdom, Vol. 1 (1999)
The Light of Wisdom Vol. 1 contains the root terma—hidden treasure text—of Padmasambhava, The Gradual Path of the Wisdom Essence and its commentary The Light of Wisdom by Jamgon Kongtrul the Great. Annotations on the commentary Entering the Path of Wisdom spoken by Jamyang Drakpa and recorded by Jokyab Rinpoche are included as well as clarifications from other masters. Volume I presents in-depth explanations of the Vajrayāna Buddhist perspective. It begins with the nature of the ground, the buddha nature present in all beings, continues with the teachings that are common to all vehicles, and concludes with the Mahāyāna and the link to Vajrayāna. (Source Accessed Feb 13, 2020)
Kunsang, Erik Pema, trans. The Light of Wisdom. Vol. 1. With the root text Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo by Padmasambhava, the commentary The Light of Wisdom by Jamgön Kongtrül the First, and the notes Entering the Path of Wisdom by Jamyang Drakpa. Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1999. https://www.scribd.com/read/353095132/Light-of-Wisdom-Volume-I.
Kunsang, Erik Pema, trans. The Light of Wisdom. Vol. 1. With the root text Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo by Padmasambhava, the commentary The Light of Wisdom by Jamgön Kongtrül the First, and the notes Entering the Path of Wisdom by Jamyang Drakpa. Hong Kong: Rangjung Yeshe Publications, 1999. https://www.scribd.com/read/353095132/Light-of-Wisdom-Volume-I.;The Light of Wisdom, Vol. 1 (1999);The doctrine of buddha-nature in Tibetan Buddhism;The Path;dharmakāya;Buddha-nature as Luminosity;'jam mgon kong sprul;Pad+ma 'byung gnas;Padmasambhava;པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་;pad+ma 'byung gnas;gu ru rin po che;o rgyan chen po;o rgyan gyi slob dpon;blo ldan mchog sred;gu ru nyi ma 'od zer;gu ru shAkya seng ge;gu ru seng ge sgra sgrog;གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་;ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཆེན་པོ་;ཨོ་རྒྱན་གྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་;བློ་ལྡན་མཆོག་སྲེད་;གུ་རུ་ཉི་མ་འོད་ཟེར་;གུ་རུ་ཤཱཀྱ་སེང་གེ་;གུ་རུ་སེང་གེ་སྒྲ་སྒྲོག་; Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo;འཇམ་དབྱངས་མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་དབང་པོ་;'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po;mkhyen brtse'i dbang po;rdzong gsar mkhyen brtse 01;kun dga' bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan dpal bzang po;rdo rje gzi brjid rtsal;'od gsal rdo rje thugs mchog rtsal;mtsho skyes bla ma dgyes pa'i 'bangs;Fifth Terton King;མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་དབང་པོ་;རྫོང་གསར་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་༠༡་;ཀུན་དགའ་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་དཔལ་བཟང་པོ་;རྡོ་རྗེ་གཟི་བརྗིད་རྩལ་;འོད་གསལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐུགས་མཆོག་རྩལ་;མཚོ་སྐྱེས་བླ་མ་དགྱེས་པའི་འབངས་;གཏེར་སྟོན་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྔ་པ་;Chogyur Lingpa;མཆོག་གྱུར་གླིང་པ་;mchog gyur gling pa;mchog gyur bde chen gling pa;མཆོག་གྱུར་བདེ་ཆེན་གླིང་པ་;Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye;འཇམ་མགོན་ཀོང་སྤྲུལ་;'jam mgon kong sprul;blo gros mtha' yas;yon tan rgya mtsho;'jam mgon chos kyi rgyal po;pad+ma gar dbang blo gros mtha' yas;pad+ma gar gyi dbang phyug rtsal;pad+ma gar dbang phrin las 'gro 'dul rtsal;བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་;ཡོན་ཏན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་;འཇམ་མགོན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་;པདྨ་གར་དབང་བློ་གྲོས་མཐའ་ཡས་;པདྨ་གར་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་རྩལ་;པདྨ་གར་དབང་ཕྲིན་ལས་འགྲོ་འདུལ་རྩལ་;Dru Jamyang Drakpa;འབྲུ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་གྲགས་པ;'bru 'jam dbyangs grags pa;'bri 'jam dbyangs grags pa;འབྲི་འཇམ་དབྱངས་གྲགས་པ;Erik Pema Kunsang;The Light of Wisdom, Vol. 1;Mchog gyur gling pa;'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po;'jam mgon kong sprul
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Gampopa: Ornament of Precious Liberation: A Wish-Fulfilling Gem of Sublime Dharma
One of Gampopa's 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.
Dwags po thar rgyan;The Path;Kagyu;Gampopa;སྒམ་པོ་པ་;sgam po pa;dwags po lha rje;bsod nams rin chen;dwags po zla 'od gzhon nu;dwags po rin po che;དྭགས་པོ་ལྷ་རྗེ་;བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན་;དྭགས་པོ་ཟླ་འོད་གཞོན་ནུ་;དྭགས་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་;Jé Gampopa;Dakpo Rinpoche;Takpo Rinpoche;Je Dakpo Rinpoche;Je Takpo Rinpoche;Da'od Zhonnu;Dagpo Lhaje;The Physician from Dagpo;Nyamed Dakpo Rinpoche;The Incomparible Precious One from Dagpo;Ü-pa Tönpa;Dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan;དམ་ཆོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ཐར་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན།;Ornament of Precious Liberation: A Wish-Fulfilling Gem of Sublime Dharma;དམ་ཆོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ཐར་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན།
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Shenpen Hookham at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium
Lama Shenpen Hookham discusses the Rangtong (rang stong) and Shentong (gzhan stong) interpretations of Buddhism and how the seeds of the controversy around Tathāgatagarbha and the Shentong interpretation of Buddhism was present even at the time of the Buddha.
Hookham, Shenpen. "The Impact of a Shentong Interpretation of Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine from the Point of View of a Western Buddhist Practitioner." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 41:03. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM93AeQIR4I.
Hookham, Shenpen. "The Impact of a Shentong Interpretation of Tathāgatagarbha Doctrine from the Point of View of a Western Buddhist Practitioner." Paper presented at the University of Vienna Symposium, Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia, Vienna, Austria, July 2019. Video, 41:03. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM93AeQIR4I.;Shenpen Hookham at the 2019 Tathāgatagarbha Symposium;Rangtong;Zhentong;Contemporary;History of buddha-nature in India;The doctrine of buddha-nature in Early Buddhism;The Path;Terminology;Shenpen Hookham;The impact of a Shentong interpretation of Tathāgatagarbha doctrine from the point of view of a western Buddhist practitioner