The Jewel Ladder
by Tsepak Rigzin (Ed. & Tr.)

The Jewel Ladder (Rin-chen them-skas) is a short and comprehensive Nyingma Lamrim for beginners by Minling Terchen Gyurme Dorjee, commonly known as Terdak Lingpa, one of the foremost early master-scholars of Tibet, who was both a teacher and disciple of the Great Fifthe Dalai Lama.The text introduces us to the preliminaries of the Buddhist practice required for higher spiritual development such as the four basic ways of concentrating one`s mind on the Dharma and Four Noble Truths.This commentary by Khamtrul Rinpoche given in simple and lucid language unravels the gist of Rin-chen them-skas. Apended at the end of the book is a guided to the voluminous Nyingma Lamrim (kun-bzang blama`izhal-lung).