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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་, [[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. | [[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. | ||
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Latest revision as of 02:13, 24 November 2017
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
སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་དུ་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །
You should know that beings are of three kinds—
Those of lesser, intermediate and supreme capacity.
འཁོར་བའི་བདེ་བ་ཙམ་དག་ལ། །
རང་ཉིད་དོན་དུ་གཉེར་བྱེད་པ། །
Those who strive by any means
To gain only the pleasures of samsara
For themselves alone—
Such people are called 'lesser' individuals.
སྡིག་པའི་ལས་ལས་ལྡོག་བདག་ཉིད། །
གང་ཞིག་རང་ཞི་ཙམ་དོན་གཉེར། །
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'.
གང་ཞིག་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཀུན། །
ཡང་དག་ཟད་པར་ཀུན་ནས་འདོད། །
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.