The Jewel Ornament of Liberation

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. ==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'' == References ==