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((Short description|Key text in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism))
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'''''The Jewel Ornament of Liberation''''' or ''Ornament of Precious Liberation'' (((Bo|t=དམ་ཆོས་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ཐར་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན|w=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 [[Kagyü]]pa lineages of [[Mahayana]] teachings. The text was written by [[Gampopa]] (1074-1153 C.E.), one of the two most important disciples of [[Milarepa]].

Gampopa, both a [[Kadampa]] monk and [[Vajrayana]] student of the famed yogi [[Milarepa]], based this text on [[Atisha]]'s "[[Bodhipathapradīpa|Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]]". [[Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen|Khunu Lama Rinpoche]] said that this was the first [[lamrim]] text written in [[Tibet]] and that all the later great lamrim texts were based on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation. It's a critically important text to study as a foundation for the traditional three year retreat.

Gampopa said, "For anyone who wishes to see me, studying The Jewel Ornament of Liberation and The Precious Garland of the Excellent Path is the same as meeting me." This text contains the complete form of [[Mahayana]] Buddhism—from the starting point of [[Buddha-nature]], all the way to enlightenment.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.shambhala.com/snowlion_articles/the-jewel-ornament-of-liberation/|title = The Jewel Ornament of Liberation|date = 6 March 2017))</ref><ref>Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche, "Jewel Ornament of Liberation." 1998</ref>

==Outline==
The text is structured around the following points:
#The primary cause: [[buddha nature]].
#The support: precious human existence.
#The contributory cause: the spiritual teacher. 
#The methods of practice.
#The result: perfect buddhahood. 
#The activities of the Buddha.

==Buddha Nature==
According to The Jewel Ornament, all living beings, even the smallest insects, have the potential of Buddhahood. All beings have this same essence, or Buddha nature. Gampopa presented the example of the sesame seed and sesame seed oil. Though the oil is present in the seed, there are steps to take to separate (or realize) the oil.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.dharmadownload.net/pages/english/Natsok/0010_Teaching_English/Teaching_English_0073.htm|title = Bodhisattva Chenrezig))</ref>

==Translations into English==
The text by Gampopa was first translated into English by [[Herbert Guenther]] in 1959. More recent translations include the one by Khenpo Konchog Gyaltsen Rinpoche in 1998. Ken Holmes's translation, entitled ''Ornament of Precious Liberation'', was published in 2017.

==Tibetan Text==
*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''<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.dharmadownload.net/pages/english/Texts/texts_0028.htm|title = Dakpo Tharjen))</ref>
((Wikisourcelang|wikisource|དྭགས་པོ་ཐར་རྒྱན།))

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