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Atish Dipankar
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Atiśa (c. 982–1054 CE) was a Buddhist religious teacher and leader from Bengal. He is generally associated with his body of work authored at Vikramaśīla Monastery in Bihar. He was a major figure in the spread of 11th-century Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism in Asia and traveled to Sumatra and Tibet. Atiśa, along with his chief disciple Dromtön, is regarded as the founder of the Kadam school, one of the New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In the 14th century, the Kadam school was supplanted by the Gelug tradition, which adopted its teachings and absorbed its monasteries.
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Atish Dipankar (982–1054) was a male monk, editor, writer, and Tertön from the Pala Empire. Born in Bikrampur, he practiced Buddhism and spoke Sanskrit. He was a student of Naropa and later taught Dromton Gyelwa Jungne, Rinchen Zangpo, and Naropa. His notable work includes the *Bodhipathapradīpa*.
Dipankar died in Nyêtang. His name in the native language is অতীশ দীপঙ্কর. He is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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- In this twelfth-century Tibetan depiction, Atiśa holds a long, thin palm-leaf manuscript with his left hand and making the gesture of teaching with his right hand. Produced in a Kadam monastery in Tibet, currently held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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- Buddhism
- Religious biography.birth_place
- Bikrampur, Bengal
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- Nyêtang, Tibet
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- Buddhism
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- Jñanasrimitra
- Religious biography.students
- Dromtön
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- Atiśa
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Early life
- Studies
- Vikramaśīla
- Teachings in Sumatra and Tibet
- Legacy
- Writings
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Atiśa (c. 982–1054 CE) was a Buddhist religious teacher and leader from Bengal. He is generally associated with his body of work authored at Vikramaśīla Monastery in Bihar. He was a major figure in the spread of 11th-century Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism in Asia and traveled to Sumatra and Tibet. Atiśa, along with his chief disciple Dromtön, is regarded as the founder of the Kadam school, one of the New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In the 14th century, the Kadam school was supplanted by the Gelug tradition, which adopted its teachings and absorbed its monasteries.
==Biography== ===Early life=== Atiśa was born as Candragarbha in c. 982 CE as the second of three sons to a ruling family in Bengal most probably in the village of Vajrayogini in Vikrampura, the latter was one of the capitals of the Pala Empire. His father was a king known as Kalyānaśrī and his mother was Prabhavati Sri. The early part of his life was typical of noblemen of the period, and he was trained in various fields, including art.
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