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'''The Jewel Ornament of Liberation''' (Tib. དྭགས་པོ་ཐར་རྒྱན་, ''Dakpo Targyen''; or Tib. དམ་ཆོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ཐར་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན་, [[Wyl.]] ''dwags po thar rgyan'', or ''dam chos yid bzhin nor bu rin po che'i rgyan'') — a famous survey of the ground, path and fruition of the Buddhadharma, written by [[Gampopa]], the foremost disciple of [[Milarepa]]. It is said to capture the essence of both the [[Kadampa]] and [[Kagyü|Kagyüpa]] lineages of [[Mahayana]] teachings.

==Outline==
The text is structured around the following points:

#The cause is the [[buddha nature]].
#The support is the most precious human body.
#The circumstance is the spiritual friend. 
#The method consists of his instructions.
#The result consists of the kayas of perfect buddhahood. 
#The activity is the spontaneous accomplishment of beings’ benefit.

==Tibetan Text==
* {{TBRC|W00KG02533|དམ་ཆོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ཐར་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན་, ''dam chos yid bzhin gyi nor bu thar pa rin po che'i rgyan''}}
*[http://www.dharmadownload.net/pages/english/Texts/texts_0028.htm - Dharmadownload.net]

==Translations==
*Gampopa, ''The Jewel Ornament of Liberation : the Wish-fulfilling Gem of the Noble Teachings'', translated Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche, Snow Lion, 1998
*sGam Po Pa, ''The Jewel Ornament of Liberation'', translated by [[Herbert V. Guenther]], Shambhala, 1986

==Commentaries==
===In English===
*[[Ringu Tulku]], ''Path to Buddhahood: Teachings on Gampopa's Jewel Ornament of Liberation'', Shambhala, 2003

==Further Reading==
*David Seyfort Ruegg, ‘A Propos of a Recent Contribution to Tibetan and Buddhist Studies’ in ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'', Vol. 82, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1962), pp. 320- 331

==External Links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tomF1YFLvlU The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje's teachings on the ''Jewel Ornament of Liberation'', 2014]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llMa86meAws The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje's teachings on the ''Jewel Ornament of Liberation'', 2015]

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