Atīśa (982-1054)
ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་ a ti sha
Atiśa Dīpaṃkara
a ti sha dI paM ka ra
ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་དཱི་པཾ་ཀ་ར་
Atisha Dipamkara Shrijñana or Jowo Jé Palden Atisha
Biography
- Apple, James B and Atīśa. 2019. Atiśa Dīpaṃkara: Illuminator of the Awakened Mind. Shambhala. JABL
- “Atisha.” Rigpa Wiki. rigpawiki.org
- Gardner, Alexander. 2009. “Atiśa Dīpaṃkara.” Treasury of Lives. treasuryoflives.org
- Ngawang Dhargyey, Alexander Berzin, ed., and Sharpa Tulkku, trans. 1982. “The Life of Atisha.” In An Anthology of Well-spoken Advice on the Graded Paths of the Mind. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. JABL (studybuddhism.com)
- Ruegg, David Seyfort. 1981. The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India. Harrassowitz. pp. 110-113. JABL
Works
Bodhipathapradīpa
byang chub lam sgron
བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་སྒྲོན་
Lamp for the Path of Enlightenment
- Sonam Rinchen, Ruth Sonam, and Atīśa. 1997. Atisha’s Lamp for the Path: An Oral Teaching by Geshe Sonam Rinchen. Snow Lion Publications. JABL
- Atiśa and Richard Sherburne. 2003. The Complete Works of Atīśa Śrī Dīpaṁkara Jñāna, Jo-Bo-Rje: The Lamp for the Path and Commentary, Together with the Newly Translated Twenty-Five Key Texts (Tibetan and English Texts). Aditya Prakashan. JABL (archive.org) (Atisha’s auto-commentary to Lamp to the Path of Enlightenment)
Bden gnyis spyi bshad dang/bden gnyis ‘jog tshul
A General Explanation of, and Framework for Understanding, the Two Realities
