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*Geshe Sonam Rinchen, ''Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment'', Snow Lion, 1997
*Geshe Sonam Rinchen, ''Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment'', Snow Lion, 1997
*Ronald M. Davidson, ''Atiśa's Lamp for the Path to Awakening', in ''Buddhism in Practice'', edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr., Princeton University Press, 1995
*Ronald M. Davidson, ''Atiśa's Lamp for the Path to Awakening', in ''Buddhism in Practice'', edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr., Princeton University Press, 1995
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Jowo Jé Glorious Atisha

Lamp for the Path of Awakening (Skt. bodhipathapradīpa; Wyl. byang chub lam sgron) - Atisha's most famous and influential treatise, in which he defined the three levels of spiritual capacity and, in just 68 verses, laid the foundation for the lamrim tradition.

Translations

  • Geshe Sonam Rinchen, Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, Snow Lion, 1997
  • Ronald M. Davidson, Atiśa's Lamp for the Path to Awakening', in Buddhism in Practice, edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr., Princeton University Press, 1995

Quotations

ཆུང་ངུ་འབྲིང་དང་མཆོག་གྱུར་བའི། །
སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་དུ་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །

You should know that beings are of three kinds—
Those of lesser, intermediate and supreme capacity.

Atīśa, Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, 2ab


གང་ཞིག་ཐབས་ནི་གང་དག་གིས། །

འཁོར་བའི་བདེ་བ་ཙམ་དག་ལ། །
རང་ཉིད་དོན་དུ་གཉེར་བྱེད་པ། །

དེ་ནི་སྐྱེས་བུ་ཐ་མར་ཤེས། །

Those who strive by any means
To gain only the pleasures of samsara
For themselves alone—
Such people are called 'lesser' individuals.

Atīśa, Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, 3


སྲིད་པའི་བདེ་ལ་རྒྱབ་ཕྱོགས་ཤིང་། །

སྡིག་པའི་ལས་ལས་ལྡོག་བདག་ཉིད། །
གང་ཞིག་རང་ཞི་ཙམ་དོན་གཉེར། །

སྐྱེས་བུ་དེ་ནི་འབྲིང་ཞེས་བྱ། །

Those who turn their backs on worldly pleasures,
And avoid any harmful actions,
Striving for peace for themselves alone—
Such individuals are said to be 'intermediate'.

Atīśa, Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, 4


རང་རྒྱུད་གཏོགས་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱིས། །

གང་ཞིག་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཀུན། །
ཡང་དག་ཟད་པར་ཀུན་ནས་འདོད། །

སྐྱེས་བུ་དེ་ནི་མཆོག་ཡིན་ནོ། །

Those who long to put a complete end
To all the sufferings of others
Through the sufferings of their own experience—
Individuals such as these are supreme.

Atīśa, Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, 5