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Lamp for the Path of Awakening

Lamp for the Pa th of

Awaken ing (Skt.

bodhipathapradīpa; 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

�ང་�་འ�ངི་དང་མཆགོ་�ར་བའ།ི །

�སེ་�་ག�མ་�་ཤསེ་པར་�། །

You should know that beings are of three kinds—

Those of lesser, intermediate and supreme capacity.

Atīśa, Lamp for the Path to En lightenment, 2ab

གང་ཞགི་ཐབས་ན་ིགང་དག་གསི། །

འཁརོ་བའ་ིབད་ེབ་ཙམ་དག་ལ། །

རང་ཉདི་དནོ་�་གཉརེ་�དེ་པ། །

ད་ེན་ི�སེ་�་ཐ་མར་ཤསེ། །

Those who strive by any means

To gain only the pleasures of samsara

For themselves alone—

Such people are called 'lesser' individuals.

Atīśa, Lamp for the Path to En lightenment, 3

�དི་པའ་ིབད་ེལ་�བ་�གོས་ཤངི་། །

�གི་པའ་ིལས་ལས་�གོ་བདག་ཉདི། །

གང་ཞགི་རང་ཞ་ིཙམ་དནོ་གཉརེ། །

�སེ་�་ད་ེན་ིའ�ངི་ཞསེ་�། །

Those who turn their backs on worldly pleasures,

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And avoid any harmful actions,

Striving for peace for themselves alone—

Such individuals are said to be 'intermediate'.

Atīśa, Lamp for the Path to En lightenment, 4

རང་�ད་གཏགོས་པའ་ི�ག་བ�ལ་�སི། །

གང་ཞགི་གཞན་�་ི�ག་བ�ལ་�ན། །

ཡང་དག་ཟད་པར་�ན་ནས་འདདོ། །

�སེ་�་ད་ེན་ིམཆགོ་ཡནི་ན།ོ །

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.

Atīśa, Lamp for the Path to En lightenment, 5

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