adrian
July 3, 2019, 12:30am
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Venerable Ru De started a series of videos on the life of Master Atiśa.
check it out here (in Chinese):
Some other relevant references from Wiki:
Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna (Bengali: অতীশ দীপংকর শ্রীজ্ঞান, romanized: otish dipônkor sriggan; Standard Tibetan: ཇོ་བོ་རྗེ་དཔལ་ལྡན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ།; Chinese: 燃燈吉祥智; pinyin: Rándēng Jíxiángzhì) (982 - 1054 CE) was a Bengali Buddhist religious leader and master from the Indian subcontinent. He was one of the major figures in the spread of 11th-century Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism in Asia and inspired Buddhist thought from Tibet to Sumatra. In 1013 CE, he traveled to the Srivijaya kingdom and stayed ther
Lamrim (Tibetan: "stages of the path") is a Tibetan Buddhist textual form for presenting the stages in the complete path to enlightenment as taught by Buddha. In Tibetan Buddhist history there have been many different versions of lamrim, presented by different teachers of the Nyingma, Kagyu and Gelug schools. However, all versions of the lamrim are elaborations of Atiśa's 11th-century root text A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment (Bodhipathapradīpa).
When Atiśa, the originator of the lamrim...
adrian
July 5, 2019, 12:20am
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Venerable Ru De’s latest video on Master Atisa
adrian
September 17, 2019, 12:13am
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Venerable Ru De shared something I found very useful for my own understanding of the various Teachings. He helped trace the lineage from the Bodhisattvas to the various Masters and to Master Atisa.
Watch the video from the 11 min mark: