ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ།

Ārya Atiśa

མཁའ་འགྲོ།

Khandro

ཞལ་གདམས།

Texts of Advice

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Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna (982-1054) was a great Indian master and scholar, and author of many texts including the Lamp for the Path of Awakening. One of the main teachers at the famous university of Vikramaśīla, he was also a strict follower of the monastic rule and was widely acclaimed for the purity of his teaching. He spent the last ten years of his life in Tibet, teaching and translating texts, and was instrumental in reinvigorating Buddhism there after a period of persecution. His disciples founded the Kadampa school.