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A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices

Atisa Dipamkara: Illuminator of the Awakened Mind brass it helps bring spiritual clarityBy James Apple Few figures in the history of Buddhism in Tibet have had as far reaching and profound an influence as the Indian scholar and adept Atia Dpakara (9821054). Originally from Bengal, Atia was a tantric Buddhist master during Vajrayana Buddhisms flowering in India and traveled extensively, eventually spending the remaining twelve years of his life revitalizing Buddhism in Tibet. Revered by all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism, Atia and his