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Atisa and Tibet
By: Chaattopadhyaya

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The book opens with a full account of the baffling personality of the great Bengali Pandit Atisa or Dipamkara Srijnana, the greatest of the teacher-reformers of Tibetan Buddhism. The author proceeds to portray the Tibetan background of early Buddhism and gives an account of the early history of Tibet and Indo-Tibetan connections, together with a study of Buddhism in Tibet from the seventh century onwards right down to the time of Atisa in the eleventh century A.D.

Atisha and Buddhism in Tibet
By: Doboom Tulku & Glenn Mullin

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The master Atisha, who arrived in Tibet in 1042 A.D., and taught there until his death thirteen years later, had an overwhelming effect on the Buddhism of Central Asia. His teachings sent waves through all orders of Tibetan Buddhism and left impressions that, a millennium later, continue to exert their influence.
The present year 1983, has been celebrated throughout India and Bangladesh as the 1,000th anniversary of Atisha's birth. In commemoration of this event Tibet House has compiled and published the present volume. It includes a short biography of Atisha by the fourteenth century scholar-saint Lama Tsong Khapa, as well as three texts by Atisha himself. The material is supplemented with a chapter by His Holiness the present Dalai Lama on the nature of the three higher trainings, essence of Atisha's teachings in Tibet.

Atisha's Lamp for the Path of Enlightenment
By: Geshe Sonam Rinchen/ Sonam Ruth, tr.

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Atisha's most celebrated text, entitled Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, was written for the Tibetan people at the request of Jangchub Wo. It sets forth the entire Buddhist path within the framework of three levels of motivation on the part of the practitioner, represented by the Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana paths. Atisha's text thus became the source of the lamrim tradition, or graduated stages of the path to enlightenment, an approach to spiritual practice incorporated within all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

Bodhipathapradipa
By: Dipankara Srijnana/Atisha

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-'Bodhipathapradipa' is unanimously construed as the magnum opus among the compositions of Dipankara Srijnana (Atisa). As a religious text composed by a Buddhist mendicant of India as-well as Tibet, it reconciles the doctrines- of the different schools of Buddhism (Madhyamika Sunyavada, Vijnanavada of Yogacharins and the doctrines of Mahayanic Sutras) in its tenets towards the realisation of Bodhi or Perfect Enlightenments. But as Rgveda being a; book of hymns of Brahmanism, entertains universal-appeal in its doctrines of philanthropical dynamism, as several Mahayanic texts- while : professing Mahayanic doctrines profess cosmopolitan appeal in its dynamic ; principle of universal emancipation and as ';Stuti Chintamani' of the tribal poet Bhima Bhoi fof Orissa while advocating the theology of Mahimaism preaches for a better world-order even at the cost of the distress of Mahimaites, Bodhipathapradipa epitomises in the midst- of Buddhist theology the basic principle of Humanism and the ideal of human civilization. This text embodies critical and intellectual discourses on Buddhism and Bodhipathapradlpa, life of Dipankara Srijnana, Sanskrit. text of Bodhipathapradipa, its translation in English and the ideology of Bodhipathapradipa in critical and comparative studies. It also highlights: the ideology of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.

Bodhipathapradipah, in Tibetan, Sanskrit and English
By: Dipankara Srijnana(Atisha)

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Bodhipathapradipah(Byang Chub Lam Gyi sGron Ma,

;ང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མ།), Dipankara Srijnana (Atisha), Restored, Translated and Edited by Losang Norbu Shastri, Paperback, CIHTS, $15.00

Book of Kadam: The Core Texts, Attributed to Atisa Dipamkara (982-1054) and Dromtonpa (1005-1064)

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The Kadma School, which emerged from the teachings of the Indian master Atisa and his principal student, Dromtonpa, is revered for its unique practical application of the bodhisattva's altruistic ideal in day-to-day life. One of the most well-known sets of spiritual teachings stemming from Atisa and Dromtonpa is a special collection of oral transmissions enshrined in the two-volume Book of Kadam (Bka' gdams glegs bam). The texts in this volume include the core texts of The Book of Kadam, notably the twenty-three-chapter dialogue between Atisa and Dromtonpa that is woven around Atisa's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland. Sometimes referred to as the “Kadam emanation scripture,” The Book of Kadam is indisputedly one of the greatest works of Tibetan Buddhism. This volume contains (1) Atisa's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, (2) the twenty-three chapters of the Jewel Garland of Dialogues, (3) Dromtonpa's Self-Exhortation, (4) Elucidation of the Heart-Drop Practice by Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen (1223-1305), (5) four selected chapters from Dromtonpa's birth stories, (6) two brief verse summaries of the Book of Kadam, one by the second Dalai Lama (1476-1542) and the other by Yongzin Yeshe Gyaltsen (1713-93), and (7) Sayings of the Kadam Masters, compiled by Chegom Sherap Dorje (ca. twelfth century). Although the Kadam school no longer exists as an autonomous lineage within Tibetan Buddhism, its teachings have become fully incorporated into the teachings of all four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism, especially the Geluk School.

Complete Works of Atisa
By: Atisa / Sherburne R., tr.

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SRI DIPAMKARA JNANA, JO-BO-RJE
The Lamp for the Path, the Commentary, together with the newly translated Twenty-five Key Texts (Tibetan and English)
These translations of the 11 century Tibetan texts of Atisa open important charismatic documents for the general reader of Buddhism. Although these texts have been acknowledged for centuries as the source and inspiration of the Dge-lugs-pa and Bka'-gdams-pa monastic orders in Tibet and Central Asia, the writings of Atisa have only recently found more interest among Western scholars.
The Lamp for the Path and its Commentary were translated and published in 1983 by Richard Sherburne, and are included in this book, but newly added are his translations of the Twenty-five Key Texts authored by Atisa himself.

Mind Training: The Great Collection
By: Atisha et al, Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Tr.

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Compiled in the fifteenth century, Mind Training: The Great Collection is the earliest anthology of a special genre of Tibetan literature known as "mind training," or lojong in Tibetan. The principal focus of these texts is the systematic cultivation of such altruistic thoughts and emotions as compassion, love, forbearance, and perseverance. The mind-training teachings are highly revered by the Tibetan people for their pragmatism and down-to-earth advice on coping with the various challenges and hardships that unavoidably characterize everyday human existence.The volume contains forty-four individual texts, including the most important works of the mind training cycle, such as Serlingpa''s well-known Levelling out All Preconceptions, Atisa's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, Langri Thangpa's Eight Verses on Training the Mind, and Chekawa's Seven-Point Mind Training together with the earliest commentaries on these seminal texts. An accurate and lyrical translation of these texts, many of which are in metered verse, marks an important contribution to the world''s literary heritage, enriching its spiritual resources.