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[[image:Atisha.JPG|frame|'''Jowo Jé Glorious Atisha''']]'''Lamp for the Path of Awakening''' (Skt. ''bodhipathapradīpa''; Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་སྒྲོན་, ''changchub lam drön'',  [[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==
{{:Quotations: Atisha, Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, Three kinds of beings}}
{{:Quotations: Atisha, Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, Lesser individuals strife for pleasures of samsara}}
{{:Quotations: Atisha, Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, Intermediates avoid harmful actions}}
{{:Quotations: Atisha, Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, Supremes long to end the sufferings of others}}

==External Links==
*[http://gdamsngagmdzod.tsadra.org/index.php/Wylie:Theg_pa_chen_po%27i_lam_gyi_rim_pa%27i_gzhung_byang_chub_lam_gyi_sgron_ma Tsadra Foundation]

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