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Atisa's Stages of the Path to Awakening : Together with Commentaries and Ritual Texts by James B. Apple (2025, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherWisdom Publications

ISBN-101614298440

ISBN-139781614298441

eBay Product ID (ePID)8072087392

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Book TitleAtisa's Stages of the Path to Awakening : Together with Commentaries and Ritual Texts

Number of Pages408 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicBuddhism / History, Buddhism / Tibetan, Buddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist), Buddhism / Sacred Writings

GenreReligion

AuthorJames B. Apple

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight24.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-029773

ReviewsA tisa's Stages of the Path to Awakening is the latest of James Apple's publications dedicated to the works of Atisa Dipa?karasrijñana. The book presents Stages of the Path to Awakening for the first time in full to an Anglophone readership, together with translations of several commentarial and instructional works and accompanied by a detailed introduction by the author. I am delighted to see these little-known texts from the tradition of the famous Buddhist master finally receiving the attention they deserve.

SynopsisThis book contains a lost Stages of the Path (Lamrim) work composed by the originator of the genre, Atisa, one of the greatest Indian Buddhist masters to ever set foot in Tibet. Nearly a millennium ago, the great Indian Buddhist master Atisa Dipamkarasrijñana (ca. 982-1054) wrote a guidebook for realizing all the stages to awakening at the repeated request of his closest Tibetan disciple. Atisa is famously the author of the Lamp for the Path to Awakening ( Bodhipathapradipa ), a short work in verse, but this longer prose work has been virtually unknown, even in Tibet--until now. Atisa's Stages of the Path Awakening ( Bodhipathakrama ), translated here, synthesizes all aspects of Buddhist practice, from the very beginning of the path--reflecting on the fortunate opportunity of human rebirth--up through to attaining omniscient buddhahood by nondual meditation. The Indian master's faithful disciple Dromtönpa kept these teachings secret, and they were only transmitted to select disciples in a closely guarded transmission, but the lineage died out centuries ago, after Dromtönpa's Kadam school was eclipsed by history. Now this significant work of Buddhist path literature has become available owing to recently recovered manuscripts of the Kadampas. This book offers a study and complete translation from the Tibetan of this monument of guidance on the Buddhist path accompanied by the commentaries and ritual texts that were transmitted alongside Atisa's text. Apple's substantial introduction includes a structural comparison with Atisa's famous work, charts the transmission lineage for the present work before it died out, and explores various hypotheses for why their fates diverged. Recovered from the contingencies of history, this book brings to life one of the most holistic and integrated approaches to the highest realizations of the Indian Buddhist path ever transmitted in Tibet., This book contains a previously secret, lost work on the stages of the path (lamrim) composed by the originator of the genre, Atisa, one of the greatest Indian Buddhist masters to ever set foot in Tibet.

LC Classification NumberBQ7950.A877A643 2025