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[[Image:JKCLWiki.jpg|frame|'''[[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]]''', [[Samdrup Podrang]], Lhasa, 1955]]
'''Opening of the Dharma''' (Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྒོ་འབྱེད་, [[Wyl.]] ''chos kyi sgo 'byed'') is a brief survey of [[Tibetan Buddhism]] from a [[Rimé]] standpoint composed by [[Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö]] in Sikkim at the request of Apa Pant, who was the Indian Political Officer at that time. Its full title is ''Opening of the Dharma: A Brief Discourse on the Essence of All Vehicles'' (Wyl. ''theg pa mtha' dag gi snying po mdo tsam brjod pa chos kyi sgo 'byed'').

==Translations==
*Michael Aris, 'Jamyang Khyentse's Brief Discourse on the Essence of All the Ways' in ''Kailash'' 5 no 3 (1977) pp. 205-228. [http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/kailash/pdf/kailash_05_03_01.pdf (Available for download here)]
*H.H. The XIVth Dalai Lama, First Panchen Lama, Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche & Kalu Rinpoche, ''Four Essential Buddhist Texts'', LTWA, 1981 revised edition 1982, pp. 3-22
*[[Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche]], ''Opening the Dharma: A brief explanation of the essence of the limitless vehicles of the Buddha'', Reflection Publications, 1984

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