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|images=File:Atisha (R. Beer).jpg{{!}}Line Drawing by Robert Beer Courtesy of [http://www.tibetanart.com/ The Robert Beer Online Galleries] | |images=File:Jowo Je Atisha.jpg | ||
File:Atisa.jpg{{!}}Thangka by Shawo Thar, 2003. View full painting on [https://www.himalayanart.org/items/7826 Himalayan Art Resources] | |||
File:Atisha (R. Beer).jpg{{!}}Line Drawing by Robert Beer Courtesy of [http://www.tibetanart.com/ The Robert Beer Online Galleries] | |||
|YearBirth=982 | |||
|YearDeath=1054 | |||
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|StudentOf=Nāropa; Suvarṇadvīpa Dharmakīrti; Bodhibhadra | |||
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|AltNamesWylie=dpal mar med mdzad dpal ye shes; slob dpon chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes; rgya gar gyi mkhan po dpal ldan mar me; rgya gar gyi mkhan po dpal ldan mar me mdzad bzang po ye shes snying po; dI paM ka ra shrI dz+nyA na; paN+Dita dI paM ka ra; mgon po a ti sha | |AltNamesWylie=dpal mar med mdzad dpal ye shes; slob dpon chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes; rgya gar gyi mkhan po dpal ldan mar me; rgya gar gyi mkhan po dpal ldan mar me mdzad bzang po ye shes snying po; dI paM ka ra shrI dz+nyA na; paN+Dita dI paM ka ra; mgon po a ti sha | ||
|AltNamesTib=དཔལ་མར་མེད་མཛད་དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་; སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་དཔལ་མར་མེ་མཛད་ཡེ་ཤེས་; རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མཁན་པོ་དཔལ་ལྡན་མར་མེ་; རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མཁན་པོ་དཔལ་ལྡན་མར་མེ་མཛད་བཟང་པོ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྙིང་པོ་; དཱི་པཾ་ཀ་ར་ཤྲཱི་ཛྙཱ་ན་; པཎྜིཏ་དཱི་པཾ་ཀ་ར་; མགོན་པོ་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་ | |AltNamesTib=དཔལ་མར་མེད་མཛད་དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་; སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་དཔལ་མར་མེ་མཛད་ཡེ་ཤེས་; རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མཁན་པོ་དཔལ་ལྡན་མར་མེ་; རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མཁན་པོ་དཔལ་ལྡན་མར་མེ་མཛད་བཟང་པོ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྙིང་པོ་; དཱི་པཾ་ཀ་ར་ཤྲཱི་ཛྙཱ་ན་; པཎྜིཏ་དཱི་པཾ་ཀ་ར་; མགོན་པོ་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་ | ||
|AltNamesOther= | |AltNamesOther=Atīśa; Atiśa Dīpaṃkara; Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna; Śrī Dīpaṃkarajñānapada; Dīpaṃkararakṣita; | ||
| | |BnwShortPersonBio=Indian Buddhist monk and scholar revered by Tibetan Buddhists as a leading teacher in the later dissemination (''phyi dar'') of Buddhism in Tibet. His name, also written as Atisha, is an Apabhraṃśa form of the Sanskrit term atiśaya, meaning “surpassing kindness.” Born into a royal family in what is today Bangladesh, Atiśa studied Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy and tantra as a married layman prior to being ordained at the age of twenty-nine, receiving the ordination name of Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna. After studying at the great monasteries of northern India, including Nālandā, Odantapurī, Vikramaśīla, and Somapura, he is said to have journeyed to the island of Sumatra, where he studied under the Cittamātra teacher Dharmakīrtiśrī (also known as guru Sauvarṇadvīpa) for twelve years; he would later praise Dharmakīrtiśrī as a great teacher of bodhicitta. Returning to India, he taught at the Indian monastic university of Vikramaśīla. Atiśa was invited to Tibet by the king of western Tibet Ye shes 'od and his grandnephew Byang chub 'od, who were seeking to remove perceived corruption in the practice of Buddhism in Tibet. Atiśa reached Tibet in 1042, where he initially worked together with the renowned translator Rin chen bzang po at Tho ling monastery in the translation of prajñāpāramitā texts. There, he composed his famous work, the ''Bodhipathapradīpa'', or “''Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment'',” an overview of the Mahāyāna Buddhist path that served as a basis for the genre of literature known as lam rim (“stages of the path”). (Source: "Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna." In ''The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism'', 77. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.) | ||
|PosAllBuddha=Qualified Yes | |PosAllBuddha=Qualified Yes | ||
|PosAllBuddhaNote=He uses it as a support for his position on a single vehicle and describe it is a disposition which is a causal potential for buddhahood. | |PosAllBuddhaNote=He uses it as a support for his position on a single vehicle and describe it is a disposition which is a causal potential for buddhahood. | ||
|PosAllBuddhaMoreNotes="The term “innate | |PosAllBuddhaMoreNotes="The term “innate śīla” means that all sentient beings have a single [or universal] spiritual disposition (gotra), Buddha-nature, or the spiritual disposition of the Mahāyāna." [[Kano, K.]], [[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]], p. 100. | ||
|PosYogaMadhya=Madhyamaka | |PosYogaMadhya=Madhyamaka | ||
|PosYogaMadhyaNotes=Actually Great Madhyamaka. See [[Kano, K.]], [[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]], p. 101. | |PosYogaMadhyaNotes=Actually Great Madhyamaka. See [[Kano, K.]], [[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]], p. 101. | ||
|PosVehicles=1 | |PosVehicles=1 | ||
|PosVehiclesNotes="In his auto-commentary on the | |PosVehiclesNotes="In his auto-commentary on the ''Bodhipathapradīpa'', Atiśa explains the term ''so sor thar pa’i sdom pa'' and associates the Buddha-nature doctrine with that of the Great Madhyamaka (''dbu ma chen po''), which teaches that there is nobody who is not a recipient of the Mahāyāna (i.e. ekayāna)." [[Kano, K.]], [[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]], p. 101. | ||
|PosEmptyLumin= | |PosEmptyLumin=Tathāgatagarbha as a Causal Potential or Disposition (gotra) | ||
|PosEmptyLuminNotes="Atisa explains “the innate | |PosEmptyLuminNotes="Atisa explains “the innate śīla" abiding in every being as a cause that brings one attainment (i.e. nirvāṇa), but as being covered with defilements in the state of ordinary beings. He takes it as synonymous with Buddha-nature or the mahāyānagotra." [[Kano, K.]], [[Buddha-Nature and Emptiness]], p. 101. | ||
|IsInGyatsa=Yes | |IsInGyatsa=Yes | ||
|GyatsaNameWylie=jo bo rje dI paM ka ra | |GyatsaNameWylie=jo bo rje dI paM ka ra |
Latest revision as of 13:28, 8 February 2023
ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་
Wylie | jo bo rje a ti sha |
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Romanized Sanskrit | Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna |
English Phonetics | Atiśa |
Sort Name | Atiśa |
Other names
- དཔལ་མར་མེད་མཛད་དཔལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་
- སློབ་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་དཔལ་མར་མེ་མཛད་ཡེ་ཤེས་
- རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མཁན་པོ་དཔལ་ལྡན་མར་མེ་
- རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མཁན་པོ་དཔལ་ལྡན་མར་མེ་མཛད་བཟང་པོ་ཡེ་ཤེས་སྙིང་པོ་
- དཱི་པཾ་ཀ་ར་ཤྲཱི་ཛྙཱ་ན་
- པཎྜིཏ་དཱི་པཾ་ཀ་ར་
- མགོན་པོ་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་
- dpal mar med mdzad dpal ye shes
- slob dpon chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes
- rgya gar gyi mkhan po dpal ldan mar me
- rgya gar gyi mkhan po dpal ldan mar me mdzad bzang po ye shes snying po
- dI paM ka ra shrI dz+nyA na
- paN+Dita dI paM ka ra
- mgon po a ti sha
Alternate names
- Atīśa
- Atiśa Dīpaṃkara
- Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna
- Śrī Dīpaṃkarajñānapada
- Dīpaṃkararakṣita
Dates
Birth: | 982 |
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Death: | 1054 |
Tibetan calendar dates
About
- Teachers
- Nāropa · Suvarṇadvīpa Dharmakīrti · Bodhibhadra
- Students
- 'brom ston pa · rin chen bzang po · lha btsun byang chub 'od · mgos khug pa lhas btsas · rngog legs pa'i shes rab
Other Biographical info:
Links
- BDRC Link
- https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P3379
- Treasury of Lives Link
- http://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Atisa-Dipamkara/5717
- Treasury of Lives Excerpt
- Himalayan Art Resources Link or Other Art Resource
- https://www.himalayanart.org/items/973
- Wiki Pages
Tertön Gyatsa Information from the Rinchen Terdzö
Buddha Nature Project
- Person description or short bio
- Indian Buddhist monk and scholar revered by Tibetan Buddhists as a leading teacher in the later dissemination (phyi dar) of Buddhism in Tibet. His name, also written as Atisha, is an Apabhraṃśa form of the Sanskrit term atiśaya, meaning “surpassing kindness.” Born into a royal family in what is today Bangladesh, Atiśa studied Mahāyāna Buddhist philosophy and tantra as a married layman prior to being ordained at the age of twenty-nine, receiving the ordination name of Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna. After studying at the great monasteries of northern India, including Nālandā, Odantapurī, Vikramaśīla, and Somapura, he is said to have journeyed to the island of Sumatra, where he studied under the Cittamātra teacher Dharmakīrtiśrī (also known as guru Sauvarṇadvīpa) for twelve years; he would later praise Dharmakīrtiśrī as a great teacher of bodhicitta. Returning to India, he taught at the Indian monastic university of Vikramaśīla. Atiśa was invited to Tibet by the king of western Tibet Ye shes 'od and his grandnephew Byang chub 'od, who were seeking to remove perceived corruption in the practice of Buddhism in Tibet. Atiśa reached Tibet in 1042, where he initially worked together with the renowned translator Rin chen bzang po at Tho ling monastery in the translation of prajñāpāramitā texts. There, he composed his famous work, the Bodhipathapradīpa, or “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment,” an overview of the Mahāyāna Buddhist path that served as a basis for the genre of literature known as lam rim (“stages of the path”). (Source: "Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 77. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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Is Buddha-nature considered definitive or provisional? | |
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All beings have Buddha-nature | |
Position: | Qualified Yes |
If "Qualified", explain: | He uses it as a support for his position on a single vehicle and describe it is a disposition which is a causal potential for buddhahood. |
Notes: | "The term “innate śīla” means that all sentient beings have a single [or universal] spiritual disposition (gotra), Buddha-nature, or the spiritual disposition of the Mahāyāna." Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 100. |
Which Wheel Turning | |
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka | |
Position: | Madhyamaka |
Notes: | Actually Great Madhyamaka. See Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 101. |
Zhentong vs Rangtong | |
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Promotes how many vehicles? | |
Position: | 1 |
Notes: | "In his auto-commentary on the Bodhipathapradīpa, Atiśa explains the term so sor thar pa’i sdom pa and associates the Buddha-nature doctrine with that of the Great Madhyamaka (dbu ma chen po), which teaches that there is nobody who is not a recipient of the Mahāyāna (i.e. ekayāna)." Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 101. |
Analytic vs Meditative Tradition | |
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What is Buddha-nature? | |
Position: | Tathāgatagarbha as a Causal Potential or Disposition (gotra) |
Notes: | "Atisa explains “the innate śīla" abiding in every being as a cause that brings one attainment (i.e. nirvāṇa), but as being covered with defilements in the state of ordinary beings. He takes it as synonymous with Buddha-nature or the mahāyānagotra." Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 101. |
Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda | |
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