The Jewel Ornament of Liberation is a twelfth century lamrim treatise composed by Gampopa (1079 to 1153), the physician-monk who united the philosophical Kadam tradition he received from his teachers with the Mahamudra meditation instructions he received from Milarepa, founding the institutional basis of what became the Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The text lays out the entire Buddhist path from Buddha-nature and impermanence through the stages of the bodhisattva to full awakening, and remains a core doctrinal text across the Kagyu lineages.
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Manuscript TraditionComposed in the twelfth century by Gampopa, who united the scholastic Kadam tradition with the meditative lineage of his teacher Milarepa, a synthesis foundational to the later Kagyu schools. 1Tradition: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism Scholarship and Forensics
Scholarly NoteIdentified as one of the most systematic Tibetan expositions of the Mahayana path, widely used as a study text well beyond its own Kagyu lineage of origin. 1Tradition: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism Origins
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Literary FormPhilosophical treatise 1Tradition: The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism Connections
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Founded the institutional basis of what became the Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Source The Jewel Ornament of Liberation (Wikipedia)
Additional Source The Princeton Dictionary of BuddhismRobert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr.Stored attributed-author property on this entity, cited to this source: Gampopa (1079 to 1153)
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1. The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr., Princeton University Press, 2014- s.v. Gampopa; Jewel Ornament of Liberation
- Entry on the text's ordered stages-of-the-path structure
- Entry on Gampopa uniting Kadam scholasticism with Milarepa's meditative lineage
- Entry describing the text's use as a study text beyond the Kagyu schools
- Authored By: Gampopa, Stored attributed-author property on this entity, cited to this source: Gampopa (1079 to 1153)
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Authored By: Gampopa, Lead
The text was written by Gampopa (1074-1153 C.E.), one of the two most important disciples of Milarepa.
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The Jewel Ornament of Liberation or Ornament of Precious Liberation (Tibetan: དམ་ཆོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ཐར་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན, Wylie: dam chos yid bzhin nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan) is a key text in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism that is said to capture the essence of both the Kadampa and Kagyüpa lineages of Mahayana teachings.
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