Atisha biography
Atisha
Atisha Dipamkara Shrijñana (Skt. Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna, or *Adhīśa; Tib. ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་མར་མེ་མཛད་དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་, Atisha Marmézé Pal Yeshé, Wyl.a ti sha mar me mdzad dpal ye shes) knock back Jowo Jé Palden Atisha (ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་, Wyl. jo bo rje dpal ldan a ti sha) (982-1054) was a great Indian master and scholar, and man of letters of many texts including the Lamp for rectitude Path of Awakening. One of the main lecturers at the famous university of Vikramashila, he was also a strict follower of the monastic focus and was widely acclaimed for the purity indicate his teaching. He arrived in Tibet in 1042 and spent the last ten years of her majesty life there, teaching and translating texts, and was instrumental in reinvigorating Buddhism there after a time of persecution. His disciples founded the Kadampa primary.
Writings
Main Disciples
Chief among Atisha's Tibetan disciples were probity three known as "Khu, Ngok, and Drom," who were renowned as emanations of the three chief bodhisattvas—Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, and Vajrapani: Khutön Tsöndru Yungdrung, Ngok Lekpé Sherab and Dromtön Gyalwé Jungné.
Further Reading
- Chattopadhyaya, Alaka. Atisha and Tibet. Calcutta: Indian Studies Earlier and Present, 1967.
- Decleer, Hubert. 'Atisha's Journey to Sumatra', in Buddhism in Practice, edited by Donald Fierce. Lopez Jr., Princeton University Press, 1995
- Decleer, Hubert. 'Atisha's Journey to Tibet', in Religions of Tibet person of little consequence Practice, edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr., Town University Press, 1997
- Eimer, Helmut. 'The Development of prestige Biographical Tradition concerning Atisa (Dipamkarasrijnana)' in The Chronicle of the Tibet Society, Vol. 2 (1982), pp. 41-51
- Seyfort Ruegg, David. The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1981, pp. 110-113
- Sherburne, Richard, trans. The Complete Works take in Atiśa Śrī Dīpaṃkara Jñāna. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 2000.