A famous Bengali Buddhist tantric master and scholar who visited Tibet from 1042–54. He is also known as Atīśa. His disciples established the Kadampa (bka’ gdams pa) tradition whose teachings were later absorbed into main schools of Tibetan Buddhism, such as the Geluk and the Kagyü schools.

The famed Indian scholar who spent twelve years in Tibet from 1042–54. Also known as Atīśa.

The Indian master Atiśa Dīpaṅkaraśrījñāna (982–1054) is renowned in the history of Tibetan Buddhism for coming to Tibet and revitalizing Buddhism there during the middle of the eleventh century. Also known as Atiśa.

The famed Indian scholar who spent twelve years in Tibet from 1042–1054. Also known as Atīśa.

The Bengali Buddhist reformer who visited Tibet in the middle of the eleventh century and whose disciples established the Kadampa (bka’ gdams pa) tradition.

The famed Indian scholar who spent twelve years in Tibet from 1042–1054.