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Damngak Rinpoché Dzö, Volume 3 (ག)
Kadam Text Collections Volume 1
བཀའ་གདམས་པོད་གཅིག་པ་
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Kadam Stages of the Path, Mind Training and Esoteric Practice - Part 1(Engle 2024)-front.jpg

by Person:Engle, A.Person:Jinpa, Thupten

Engle, Artemus B., trans. Kadam: Stages of the Path, Mind Training and Esoteric Practice, Part 1. Vol. 3 of The Treasury of Precious Instructions: Essential Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet (gdams ngag rin po che'i mdzod), compiled by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Taye ('jam mgon kong sprul blo gros mtha' yas). Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2024.

Read the book's introduction

Volume 3 Contents[1]

Part One: Three Root Texts for the Treatise, Instruction, and Esoteric Instruction Lineages

  1. Lamp on the Path to Enlightenment, authored by the Noble Lord, Person:Atīśa[2]
    ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པའི་གཞུང་བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མ་ pp 1–8 (1b1-4b6)
    theg pa chen po'i lam gyi rim pa'i gzhung byang chub lam gyi sgron ma - Translated: Many Times by various people, but not by Thupten Jinpa.
  2. Source Verses for the Seven Points of Mental Training in the Mahāyāna Approach, by Person:Thogs med bzang po
    ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་གདམས་ངག་བློ་སྦྱོང་དོན་བདུན་མའི་རྩ་བ་ pp 8–11 (4b6-6a4)
    theg pa chen po'i gdams ngag blo sbyong don bdun ma'i rtsa ba
  3. A Bodhisattva’s Garlands of Gems: Source Verses for the Precious Volumes of the Kadampa Pith Instructions in the Mahāyāna Approach
    ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མན་ངག་བཀའ་གདམས་གླེགས་བམ་རིམ་པོ་ཆེའི་རྩ་ཚིག་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ནོར་བུའི་ཕྲེང་བ་ pp 11–14 (6a4-7b1)
    theg pa chen po'i man ngag bka' gdams glegs bam rin po che'i rtsa tshig byang chub sems dpa' nor bu'i phreng ba - Translated: Jinpa, Thupten, trans. "Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland." In The Book of Kadam: The Core Texts, Volume 2, 61-64. The Library of Tibetan Classics. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2008. Jinpa, Thupten, trans. "Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland." In Mind Training: The Great Collection, Volume 1, 21-25. The Library of Tibetan Classics. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2006. Also Berzin, Alexander, trans. A Bodhisattva's Garland of Gems - Atisha. Online at Berzin Archives)

Part Two: The Treatise Lineage

  1. Utterly Clear Illumination of the Path to Enlightenment, a commentary on the Lamp by Person:'jam mgon kong sprul
    བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མའི་འགྲེལ་པ་སྙིང་པོར་བསྡུས་པ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྣང་བ་རབ་ཏུ་གསལ་བ་ pp 15-61 (1b1-24a6)
    byang chub lam gyi sgron ma'i 'grel pa snying por bsdus pa byang chub lam gyi snang ba rab tu gsal ba, by blo gros mtha' yas
  2. Verses on the Concise Meaning of the Graduated Path, authored by the Precious Lord Lozang Drakpai Pal (Person:Tsong kha pa)
    བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པའི་ཉམས་ལེན་བསྡུས་དོན་གྱི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་ pp 63-69 (1b1-4a4)
    byang chub lam gyi rim pa'i nyams len bsdus don gyi tshigs su bcad pa
  3. A supplication to the direct lineage of blessings, authored by the Precious Lord Person:Tsong kha pa
    བྱིན་རླབས་ཉེ་བརྒྱུད་ཀྱི་གསོལ་འདེབས་དངོས་གྲུབ་སྙེ་མ་ pp 71-72 (a-b)
    byin rlabs nye brgyud kyi gsol 'debs dngos grub snye ma
  4. Refined Gold, Instruction on the Graduated Path authored by Gyalwa Sönam Gyatso (Person:Dalai Lama, 3rd)
    བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པའི་འཁྲིད་གསེར་གྱི་ཡང་ཞུན་ pp 73–110 (a-b)
    byang chub lam gyi rim pa'i 'khrid gser gyi yang zhun
  5. Blissful Path That Leads to Omniscience, a definitive instruction on the graduated path authored by Paṇchen Lozang Chökyi Gyaltsen[3] (Person:Paṇchen Lama, 1st)
    བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པའི་ཁྲིད་ཡིག་ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པར་བགྲོད་པའི་བདེ་ལམ་ pp 111–160 (a-b)
    byang chub lam gyi rim pa'i khrid yig thams cad mkhyen par bgrod pa'i bde lam - Translated: Jinpa, Thubten, trans. Path to Bliss: A Practical Guide to the Stages of Meditation. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1991.
  6. Practical Means of Implementing the Graduated Path, authored by Jamyang Khyentse (Person:'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po)
    བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པ་ཉམས་སུ་ལེན་ཚུལ་གྱི་ཕྱག་བཞེས་སྙིང་པོར་དྲིལ་བ་ pp 161-179 (a-b)
    byang chub lam gyi rim pa nyams su len tshul gyi phyag bzhes snying por dril ba
  7. Quintessence of Nectar, a manual of instruction on the graduated paths of the three spiritual models, authored by Person:Tāranātha[4]
    སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་གྱི་མན་ངག་གི་ཁྲིད་ཡིག་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཉིང་ཁུ་ pp 181-273 (a-b)
    skyes bu gsum gyi man ngag gi khrid yig bdud rtsi'i nying khu
  8. Main Pathway to Enlightenment, a ritual for the arousal of bodhicitta according to the Middle Way tradition of the Mahāyāna approach
    ཟབ་མོ་ལྟ་བརྒྱུད་ལུགས་ཀྱི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པའི་ཆོ་ག་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཆེན་པོའི་གཞུང་ལམ་ pp 275-321 (a-b)
    zab mo lta brgyud lugs kyi sems bskyed pa'i cho ga byang chub chen po'i gzhung lam
  9. Noble Path of the Bodhisattva, a ritual for the arousal of bodhicitta according to the tradition of extensive conduct in the Mahāyāna approach, authored by Jamyang Khyentse ( Person:'jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po).
    ཐེག་ཆེན་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པའི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་དང་སྡོམ་པའི་ཆོ་ག་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ལམ་བཟང་ pp 323-375 (a-b)
    theg chen shin tu rgyas pa'i sems bskyed dang sdom pa'i cho ga byang chub sems dpa'i lam bzang

Part Three: The Instruction Lineage


  1. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་བློ་སྦྱོང་གི་དཀར་ཆག་ pp 377-378 (a-b)
    theg pa chen po'i blo sbyong gi dkar chag

  2. ཇོ་བོ་རྗེས་རྒྱལ་སྲིད་སྤངས་ནས་ཐར་པ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ་ pp 379–404 (a-b)
    jo bo rjes rgyal srid spangs nas thar pa sgrub pa'i rnam par thar pa - Translated: Jinpa, Thupten, trans. "How Atiśa Relinquished His Kingdom and Sought Liberation." In Mind Training: The Great Collection, Volume 1, 27-55. The Library of Tibetan Classics. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2006.

  3. ཇོ་བོ་མཉམ་མེད་གསེར་གླིང་པ་དང་མཇལ་བའི་རྣམ་ཐར་ pp 405–420 (a-b)
    jo bo mnyam med gser gling pa dang mjal ba'i rnam thar - Translated: Jinpa, Thupten, trans. "The Story of Atiśa's Voyage to Sumatra." In Mind Training: The Great Collection, Volume 1, 57-70. The Library of Tibetan Classics. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2006.)
  4. The source verses for the Seven Points of Mental Training by Ja Chekhawa Yeshe Dorje, together with interlinear notes
    ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་བློ་སྦྱོང་གི་རྩ་ཚིག་མཆན་བཅས་ pp 421–426 (a-b)
    theg pa chen po'i blo sbyong gi rtsa tshig mchan bcas - Translated: Jinpa, Thupten, trans. "Annotated Root Lines of Mahayana Mind Training." In Mind Training: The Great Collection, Volume 1, 75-82. The Library of Tibetan Classics. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2006.)

  5. ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་བློ་སྦྱོང་གི་རྩ་ཚིག་མཆན་མེད་ pp 427–428 (a-b)
    theg pa chen po'i blo sbyong gi rtsa tshig mchan med - Translated: Jinpa, Thubten, trans. "Root Lines of Mahayana Mind Training." In Mind Training: The Great Collection, Volume 1, 71-73. The Library of Tibetan Classics. Boston, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2006.

  6. བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་ཀྱི་རིམ་པ་ལ་བློ་སྦྱོང་བ་ལ་ཐོག་མར་བློ་སྦྱོང་བ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྒོ་འབྱེད་ pp 429–544 (a-b)
    byang chub lam kyi rim pa la blo sbyong ba la thog mar blo sbyong ba chos kyi sgo 'byed, by blo gros rgyal mtshan dpal bzang po (spyan snga ba)

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Footnotes

  1. All English titles reported here are from Engle Artemus B., trans. Kadam: Stages of the Path, Mind Training and Esoteric Practice, Part 1. The Treasury of Precious Teachings of the Eight Practice Lineages of Tibet - Volume 3. Tsadra Foundation Series. Boulder, CO: Snow Lion, 2024.
  2. Barron, The Catalog of The Treasury of Precious Instructions, Note 141. Theg pa chen po’i lam gyi rim pa’i gzhung byang chub lam gyi sgron ma, vol. 3, pp. 1–8. This text, which is the source for the branch based on primary sources, is combined in volume 3 of The Treasury of Precious Instructions with the two texts that are, respectively, the sources for the branches based on spiritual advice and pith instructions and that are not mentioned at this point in Kongtrul’s catalog: Source Verses for the Seven Points of Mental Training in the Mahāyāna Approach (Theg pa chen po’i gdams ngag blo sbyong don bdun ma’i rtsa ba), which includes an interlinear structural analysis, vol. 3, pp. 8–11; and A Bodhisattva’s Garlands of Gems: Source Verses for the Precious Volumes of the Kadampa Pith Instructions in the Mahāyāna Approach (Theg pa chen po’i man ngag bka’ gdams glegs bam rin po che’i rtsa thig byang chub sems dpa’i nor bu’i ’phreng ba), vol. 3, pp. 11–14.
  3. Barron, The Catalog of The Treasury of Precious Instructions, Note 148. In his catalog, Kongtrul gives the abbreviated title of this work as Blissful Path to Primordial Unity (Zung ’jug bde lam).
  4. This entry is given in a different order, before Tsonkhapa's first text above in Kongtrul's The Catalog of The Treasury of Precious Instructions.