Atiśa
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ati-a-224-2653703
title:
Atiśa
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Atīśa was a Buddhist religious leader and master. He is generally associated with his work carried out at the Vikramashila monastery in Bihar. He was one of the major figures in the spread of 11th-century Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism in Asia and inspired Buddhist thought from Tibet to Sumatra. He is recognised as one of the greatest figures of medieval Buddhism. Atiśa's chief disciple, Dromtön, was the founder of the Kadam school, one of the New Translation schools of Tibetan Buddhism, later
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description:
Scholar of Madhyamaka Buddhism (982–1054)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ati%C5%9Ba
date created:
2003-03-17T23:03:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T09:43:52Z
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