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Atisa Dipankara Srijnana Atiśa Dīpankara Śrījñāna was said to have been born the second son of a royal house in eastern India, given the name Candragarbha at birth. His father was Kalyana the Good and his mother Prabhavati the Radiant. After experiencing a vision of Tārā at the age of eleven, on the eve of his marriage, he entered a religious path, initially practicing Hevajra in the company of tantrikas. Atiśa was said to have studied with a number of the Indian Mahāsiddhas, including Jetari, Kāṇha, Avadhūtīpa, Ḍombipa, and Nāropa, and it is reported that he received the bodhisattva vow at Nālandā from Bodhibhadra. He later dreamed that the Buddha himself urged him to ordain, and, at the age of twenty-nine, he did so, in a monastery in Bodhgaya. According to Tibetan hagiographies, for two years Atiśa studied at Odantipuri with Dharmarakṣita, the author of an important Lojong (blo sbyong) manual, The Wheel of Sharp Weapons (theg pa chen po'i blo sbyong mtshon cha 'khor lo). Historians have called this into question, however. He voyaged to Sumatra where he trained in bodhicitta with the monk Guru Suvarṇadvīpa, residing on the island for twelve years. Returning to India at age forty-five, he sequestered himself at the great monastery-university Vikramaśila. The story of the Purang (pu hrangs) kings' invitation to Atiśa is one of the great Buddhist legends of Tibet. According to the story, towards the end of the tenth century, the king of Purang, Lha Lama Yeshe O (lha bla ma ye shes 'od, d.u.), a descendent of the Yarlung kings whose dynasty ended with the collapse of the Tibetan Empire in 842, was dismayed at the state of Buddhism in Tibet. Monasteries had closed, and tantric practices that had previously been tightly controlled by the state-sponsored religious institutions were proliferating among the Tibetan laity and merging with native practices. Yeshe O sent twenty-one young Tibetans to Kashmir with the aim of reviving the religion in his kingdom; only two survived to return to Tibet, one of whom was the great translator Rinchen Zangpo (rin chen bzang po, 958-1055), who established many important monasteries in Wester Tibet and what is now Ladakh. It is reasonable to consider that with their sponsorship of Buddhism the Purang leaders hoped to model their kingdom on the great Empire of their ancestors. Jangchub O (byang chub 'od), Yeshe O's nephew and successor, even contemplated a restoration of Samye, the center of Tibetan Imperial religious display. Returning to Purang, Rinchen Zangpo told the kings about Atiśa, whose fame was then known across the Buddhist world. In the 1030s Jangchub O sent a first mission of nine men to India headed by Gya Lotsāwa Tsondru Sengge (rgya lo tsA ba brtson 'grus seng ge, d.u.), with a sizable offering of gold. Gya Lotsāwa's eight companions did not survive the journey, and, unable to bring Atiśa, Gya Lotsāwa's stayed on in India. According to legend, while collecting more gold to hire Atiśa's services, Yeshe O was kidnapped by an ardently anti-Buddhist Qarlug Mongol ruler. The Mongolian demanded a ransom of all the wealth intended to be offered to Atiśa, but Yeshe O told Jangchub O to leave him to his fate, that it was far more important that Atiśa be brought to Tibet. Size: Size without Brocade: 15 inches by 20 inches Shipping: We ship within 2 business day. DHL Shipping: 5 to 8 business days with tracking number. Insurance against loss. We do wholesale too. Our one and only priority in this business is to provide "Hassle free Customer Satisfaction". We have "Quality Products" with "Cheapest Price" in the market. Please contact us to resolve any issues. Contact us via email before leaving any negative or neutral comments. We promise you that we will resolve any issues. Please confirm the return address with us before returning the product.