Atisa and Tibet: Life and Works of Dipamkara Srijnana (alias Atisa) in Relation to the History and Religion of Tibet with Tibetan Sources - Hardcover

Alka Chattopadhayaya & Lama Chimpa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8120809289 ISBN 13: 9788120809284

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass, 2011

Synopsis

The book opens with a full account of the baffling personality of the great Bengali Pandit Atisa or Dipamkara Srijnana, the greatest of the teacher reformers of Tibetan Buddhism. The author proceeds to portray the Tibetan background of early Buddhism and gives an account of the early history of Tibet and Indo-Tibetan connections, together with a study of Buddhism in Tibet from the seventh century onwards right down to the time of Atisa in the eleventh century A.D.

The book is provided with an extremely valuable and illuminating set of Appendices sufficiently important to be worth describing in some detail. Appendix A contains Tibetan source-materials relating to the life and teaching of Atisa in English translation. Appendix B lists the works (219 in all) in Kanjur and Tanjur of which Dipamkara is either author, translator, reviser or otherwise. Appendix C gives the literal and annotated translation of the following works of dipamkara preserved in Tibetan translation in the Tanjur: Garyagiti, Caryagiti-Vrtti, Vimala-ratna-lekha, Bodhi-patha-pradipa. Appendix D gives The Tibetan sexagenary cycle with tables of conversion of the Christian Calendar to the Tibetan Calendar and vice versa.

About this title

About the Author:

Mrs. Alka Chattopadhyaya (b.1926) took her M.A. from Calcutta University and started teaching in the colleges of Calcutta. In 1968, she was awarded Ph.D. by the Calcutta University. In 1973, she became the Principal of the Vidyasagar College for Women, Calcutta.

About this edition

• Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8120809289
• ISBN 13: 9788120809284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 593