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 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Founded the institutional basis of what became the Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
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