Atiśa

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ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་

Wylie	jo bo rje a ti sha
Romanized Sanskrit	Atīśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna
English Phonetics	Atisha

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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

• Atiśa
• Atiśa Dīpaṃkara
• Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna
• Śrī Dīpaṃkarajñānapada
• Dīpaṃkararakṣita

Dates

Birth:	982
Death:	1055?

Tibetan calendar dates

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Teachers

Nāropa

Students

rin chen bzang po · lha btsun byang chub 'od · 'brom ston pa · mgos khug pa lhas btsas · rngok lo tsA ba 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

• Atiśa on the DRL
• Atiśa on the LIB
• Atiśa on the RTZ
• Atiśa on the DNZ
• Atiśa on the BNW

Tertön Gyatsa Information from the Rinchen Terdzö

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The full Tertön Gyatsa text can be found at the following page: Volume 1 (ཀ), 341-765, 1a1-213a4.

Name in Gyatsa: ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཱི་པཾ་ཀ་ར་ (jo bo rje dI paM ka ra)

Page #s for bio of this person: 517 to 518

Folio #s for bio of this person: 89a3 to 89b4

།སངས་རྒྱས་སྣང་བ་མཐའ་ཡས་དང་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་དབྱེར་མེད་པའི་རྣམ་འཕྲུལ་ས་གསུམ་དུ་གྲགས་པས་ཁྱབ་པའི་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཱི་པཾ་ཀ་ར་ནི་འཕགས་བོད་གཉིས་ན་ཡོངས་སུ་གྲགས་པའི་མཁས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་པོ། བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་མངའ་བདག་བོད་ཁམས་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ལྷག་པར་ཆེ་བ་སྟེ། རྣམ་ཐར་གྲགས་ཆེ་བས་འདིར་མ་བཀོད་ཅིང་། རྗེ་བཙུན་སྒྲོལ་མས་ལུང་གིས་བསྐུལ་ཞིང་བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོས་སྤྱན་དྲངས་པ་ལྟར་གངས་ཅན་དུ་ཕྱགས་ཕེབས། སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བསྟན་པའི་ག་དར་མཛད་ཅིང་ཉམས་པ་རྨང་ནས་གསོས། ལྷ་སར་རང་བཞིན་གྱི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ་ཕལ་པའི་སྣང་ངོར་སྨྱོན་མར་བརྫུ་བ་ཞིག་གིས་ལུང་བསྟན་ཏེ་ཀ་བ་བུམ་པ་ཅན་ནས་འདོམ་ཕྱེད་གཞལ་བའི་ས་ནས་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་སྲོང་བཙན་སྒམ་པོའི་བཀའ་ཆེམས་ཀྱི་ཡི་གེ་ཆེན་པོ། བཙུན་མོ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་བཀོད་པའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་དར་དཀར་གསལ་བ། བློན་པོ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་བྱས་པའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་ཟླ་བའི་འདོད་འཇོ་བཅས་དཀར་ཆག་ཤོག་དྲིལ་གསུམ་བཞེས། གཏེར་སྲུང་གཉན་པས་དེ་ཉིན་རང་དུ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་སོགས་མི་བཞིས་ཞལ་བཤུས། དོ་ནུབ་སླར་སྦ་དགོས་པས་ལྷག་མ་བག་ཙམ་ལུས་པར་བཤད། ཇོ་བོས་རྣལ་འབྱོར་པ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་གཏད། དེས་བྱ་ཡུལ་པ། དེས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོའི་ཆེ་བའི་ཡོན་ཏན་ཞིག་ལྷ་སའི་དཀོར་གཉེར་ལ་གནང་། མཐིང་ཤོག་ལ་གསེར་གྱིས་བྲིས་པའི་བུ་ཡིག་གདུང་རྟེན་དང་མ་ཕྱི་གློ་འབུར་གྱི་རྟ་མགྲིན་ལྡེར་སྐུ་ལ་བཅུག་སྐད། གཞན་ཡང་ཇོ་བོ་འདིས་འཕགས་ཡུལ་ནས་ཀྱང་བྷེ་ཏ་པདྨ་ཅན་གྱི་ལྷ་ཁང་ནས་གཙུག་ཏོར་སྡེ་ལྔའི་རྒྱལ་མཚན་འཛུག་པའི་ཆོ་ག་སོགས་གཏེར་ནས་བཞེས་པའང་གྲགས་སོ།

sangs rgyas snang ba mtha' yas dang gu ru pad+ma dbyer med pa'i rnam 'phrul sa gsum du grags pas khyab pa'i dpal ldan jo bo rje dI paM ka ra ni 'phags bod gnyis na yongs su grags pa'i mkhas grub chen po/_byang chub sems kyi mnga' bdag bod khams la bka' drin lhag par che ba ste/_rnam thar grags che bas 'dir ma bkod cing /_rje btsun sgrol mas lung gis bskul zhing bod kyi rgyal pos spyan drangs pa ltar gangs can du phyags phebs/_sangs rgyas kyi bstan pa'i ga dar mdzad cing nyams pa rmang nas gsos/_lha sar rang bzhin gyi rnal 'byor ma phal pa'i snang ngor smyon mar brdzu ba zhig gis lung bstan te ka ba bum pa can nas 'dom phyed gzhal ba'i sa nas chos rgyal srong btsan sgam po'i bka' chems kyi yi ge chen po/_btsun mo rnams kyis bkod pa'i lo rgyus dar dkar gsal ba/_blon po rnams kyis byas pa'i lo rgyus zla ba'i 'dod 'jo bcas dkar chag shog dril gsum bzhes/_gter srung gnyan pas de nyin rang du rnal 'byor pa sogs mi bzhis zhal bshus/_do nub slar sba dgos pas lhag ma bag tsam lus par bshad/_jo bos rnal 'byor pa chen po la gtad/_des bya yul pa/_des thugs rje chen po'i che ba'i yon tan zhig lha sa'i dkor gnyer la gnang /_mthing shog la gser gyis bris pa'i bu yig gdung rten dang ma phyi glo 'bur gyi rta mgrin lder sku la bcug skad/_gzhan yang jo bo 'dis 'phags yul nas kyang b+he ta pad+ma can gyi lha khang nas gtsug tor sde lnga'i rgyal mtshan 'dzug pa'i cho ga sogs gter nas bzhes pa'ang grags so

Buddha Nature Project

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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 sila” means that all sentient beings have a single [or universal] spiritual disposition (gotra), Buddha-nature, or the spiritual disposition of the Mahäyäna." 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 Bodhipathapradipa, Atisa explains the term so sor tharpa’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 Mahäyäna (i.e. ekayäna)." Kano, K., Buddha-Nature and Emptiness, p. 101.
Analytic vs Meditative Tradition
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What is Buddha-nature?
Position:	Tathagatagarbha as the Disposition
Notes:	"Atisa explains “the innate sila" abiding in every being as a cause that brings one attainment (i.e. nirvana), but as being covered with defilements in the state of ordinary beings. He takes it as synonymous with Buddha-nature or the mahäyanagotra." 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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"Tathagatagarbha as the Disposition" is not in the list (Tathāgatagarbha as Mind's Luminous Nature, Tathāgatagarbha as the Unity of Emptiness and Luminosity, Tathāgatagarbha as a Causal Potential or Disposition (gotra), Tathāgatagarbha as the Resultant State of Buddhahood, There are several types of Tathāgatagarbha, Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is a Non-implicative Negation (without enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Emptiness That is an Implicative Negation (with enlightened qualities), Tathāgatagarbha as the Latent State of Buddhahood that is Obscured in Sentient Beings, Tathāgatagarbha was Taught Merely to Encourage Sentient Beings to Enter the Path) of allowed values for the "PosEmptyLumin" property.

Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena.

Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena.

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

The notion that ultimately there is only one vehicle, or means, of achieving enlightenment.

Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain.

Disposition, lineage, or class; an individual's gotra determines the type of enlightenment one is destined to attain.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.

Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (sgrib gnyis): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. kleśāvaraṇa, Tib. nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa) and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. jñeyāvaraṇa, Tib. shes bya'i sgrib pa). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient.

In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas.

The qualities or attributes of an enlightened being.