Stages of the Buddha's Teachings

Three Key Texts

Dolpa, Gampopa, Sakya Pandita, David P. Jackson, Ulrike Roesler, Ken Holmes, David P. Jackson, Ulrike Roesler, Ken Holmes

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9780861717989
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Buddhism

Stages of the Buddha's Teachings is an extraordinary and systematized representation of the complete path to enlightenment. From the acclaimed Library of Tibetan Classics.

The “stages of the teachings” or tenrim genre of Tibetan spiritual writing expounds the Mahayana teachings as a graded series of topics, from the practices required at the start of the bodhisattva’s career to the final perfect awakening of buddhahood. The three texts in the present volume all exerted seminal influence in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The first text, The Blue Compendium, presents the instructions of the Kadam teacher Potowa (1031–1106) as recorded by his student Dölpa (1059–1131). This text is followed by Gampopa’s (1079–1153) revered Ornament of Precious Liberation, which remains the most authoritative text on the path to enlightenment within the Kagyü school. The final text is Clarifying the Sage’s Intent, a masterwork by the preeiment sage of the Sakya tradition, Sakya Pandita (1182–1251).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Message from the Dalai Lama
• Special Acknowledgments
• Publisher’s Acknowledgment
• Contents
• General Editor’s Preface
• Translators’ Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Technical Note
• Abbreviations
• Part I: The Blue Compendium
• Part II: Ornament of Precious Liberation
• Part III: Clarifying the Sage’s Intent
• The Conclusion of the Treatise
• Appendix 1. Table of Tibetan Transliteration
• Appendix 2. Outline of Clarifying the Sage’s Intent
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Contributors
• The Institute of Tibetan Classics
• The Library of Tibetan Classics
• Become a Benefactor of the Library of Tibetan Classics
• About Wisdom Publications
• Copyright