"Path to Buddhahood constitutes one of the best introductions to the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism available today. In simple, intelligent language, using images that appeal to our everyday experience and yet are surprisingly subtle, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche guides us with clarity to the discovery of the basic principles of the contemplative and philo­sophical path of Buddhism as it is practiced in Tibet.

Here he both extracts the quintessence from and gives a commen­tary on The Jewel Ornament of Liberation a text composed by Gampopa, the main spiritual son of the great hermit Milarepa.

Gampopa’s manual is a classic that guides us step by step toward enlightenment. The stages of this path are in no way artificial: they mark the unfolding of the inner transformation, of the growth that makes a spiritual child an adult in wisdom. To try to hurry the process in an artificial way risks withering the bud of knowledge before it can even bloom.