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'''Dharmarakshita''' (Skt. Dharmarakṣita, Tib. དྷརྨ་རཀྴི་ཏ་) — one of [[Atisha]]'s masters and the author of ''[[Training the Mind: The Wheel Blade of Mind Transformation]]''.
'''Dharmarakshita''' (Skt. ''Dharmarakṣita''; Tib. དྷརྨ་རཀྴི་ཏ་) — one of [[Atisha]]'s masters and the author of ''[[Training the Mind: The Wheel Blade of Mind Transformation]]''. According to [[Patrul Rinpoche]], "Dharmaraksshita started out as a [[shravaka]] [[pandita]] of the [[Vaibhashika]] school. Although in the earlier part of his life he had never heard the teachings of the [[Mahayana]], his natural affinity was to the Mahayana tradition, and without any deliberate effort he was filled with great compassion."<ref>Patrul Rinpoche, ''The Words of My Perfect Teacher'' (Boston: Shambhala, Revised edition, 1998), pages 228-230.</ref>
 
==Further Reading==
*Patrul Rinpoche, ''[[The Words of My Perfect Teacher]]'' (Boston: Shambhala, Revised edition, 1998), pages 228-230.
 
==Notes==
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Revision as of 12:49, 8 January 2022

Dharmarakshita (Skt. Dharmarakṣita; Tib. དྷརྨ་རཀྴི་ཏ་) — one of Atisha's masters and the author of Training the Mind: The Wheel Blade of Mind Transformation. According to Patrul Rinpoche, "Dharmaraksshita started out as a shravaka pandita of the Vaibhashika school. Although in the earlier part of his life he had never heard the teachings of the Mahayana, his natural affinity was to the Mahayana tradition, and without any deliberate effort he was filled with great compassion."[1]

Further Reading

Notes

  1. Patrul Rinpoche, The Words of My Perfect Teacher (Boston: Shambhala, Revised edition, 1998), pages 228-230.

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