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* {{i|About the Author|viii}}
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* Part I:
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** {{i|The Root Text-The Jewel Ladder|1}}
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* Part II
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** Commentary/Introductory Teachings
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** {{i|Preliminaries of Composing the Text|51}}
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** {{i|Qualities of an Author|53}}
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** {{i|Obeisance|55}}
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** {{i|Promise to Compose|57}}
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** {{i|Preliminaries of the Actual Text|58}}
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** {{i|Extensive motivation-generation of Mind of Enlightenment|59}}
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** {{i|Precepts of the Aspiring Mind of Enlightenment|64}}
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** {{i|Precepts of the venturing Mind of Enlightenment-the six perfections|66}}
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** {{i|Perfection of Generosity|66}}
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** {{i|Perfection of Morality|67}}
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** {{i|Perfection Patience|68}}
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** {{i|Perfection of Enthusiastic Perseverance|68}}
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** {{i|Perfection of Concentration|69}}
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** {{i|Perfection of Wisdom|69}}
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** {{i|Benefits of the Mind of Enlightenment|70}}
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** {{i|Extensive means-generating motivation according to secret mantrayana<br>tradition|72}}
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** {{i|Taking Faith as a Path|72}}
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** {{i|Taking Aspiration as a Path|73}}
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** {{i|Behaviour|74}}
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** {{i|How a Teacher must give a Discourse|74}}
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** {{i|Three Scopes of Person|76}}
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** {{i|The Four Common Points|79}}
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** {{i|The Difficulty of Finding a Precious Human Rebirth|79}}
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** {{i|Recognizing the Freedom and Endowments|79}}
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** {{i|Rarity of Finding a Precious Human Rebirth|84}}
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** {{i|Significance of Precious Human Rebirth|87}}
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** {{i|Contemplating Death and Impermanence of Human Rebirth|89}}
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** {{i|Death is Certain|90}}
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** {{i|The Time of Death is Uncertain|93}}
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** {{i|At Death only Dharma is of Benefit|96}}
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** {{i|Contemplating the Drawbacks of Cyclic Existence|99}}
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** {{i|The Sufferings of the Three Lower Realms|100}}
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** {{i|The Sufferings of the Hot Hells|104}}
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** {{i|The Sufferings of the Cold Hells|109}}
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** {{i|The suffering of the Neighbouring hells|112}}
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** {{i|The sufferings of Occasional hells|116}}
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** {{i|The Sufferings of the Hungry Ghosts|119}}
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** {{i|The Sufferings of the Animals|123}}
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** {{i|The Sufferings of the Higher Realms|127}}
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** {{i|The Nature of the three types of Sufferings|138}}
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** {{i|Contemplating the Law of Cause and Effect|138}}
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** {{i|The General Contemplation of Cause and Effect|139}}
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** {{i|The Specific Contemplation of Cause and Effect|143}}
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** {{i|Transforming the Unspecified Karmas into Virtues|159}}
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** {{i|A Summary of the Four Noble Truths|163}}
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** {{i|The Truth of Origin of Suffering|166}}
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** {{i|The Truth of Suffering|170}}
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** {{i|The Truth of Path|173}}
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** {{i|The Truth of Cessation|178}}
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** {{i|Concluding Remarks on the Four Noble Truths|180}}
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** {{i|Taking Refuge|183}}
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** {{i|Footnotes|188}}
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* Part III
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** {{i|Guide to the Nyingma Lamrim (''Kun-bzang bla-ma'i zhal-lung'')|197}}
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* Part IV
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** {{i|Guide to the Nyingma Lamrim - Tibetan text|213}}
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The Jewel Ladder (Rin-chen them-skas) is a short and comprehensive Nyingma Lamrim for beginners by Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorjee (1643–1714), commonly known as Terdak Lingpa, one of the foremost early master-scholars of Tibet, who was both a teacher and disciple of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama.
     The text introduces us to the preliminaries of the Buddhist practice required for higher spiritual development such as the four basic ways of concentrating one's mind on the Dharma and the Four Noble Truths.
     This commentary by Khamtrul Rinpoche given in simple and lucid language unravels the gist of the Rin-chen them-skas. Appended at the end of the book is a guide to the voluminous Nyingma Lamrim (Kun-bzang bla-ma'i zhal-lung). (Source: Back Cover)

Citation Rigzin, Tsepak, trans. and ed. The Jewel Ladder: A Preliminary Nyingma Lamrim. By Minling Terchen Gyurmed Dorjee (smin gling gter chen 'gyur med rdo rje). With commentary by Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche. Dharamsala, India: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1990. http://promienie.net/images/dharma/books/gyurme-dorjee_jewel-ladder.pdf.

Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་

śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt. श्रावक Tib. ཉན་ཐོས། Ch. 聲聞

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