Author: Lobsang N Tsonawa
Publisher: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 150
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185102422
Description
Indian Buddhist Pandits, describing the life and works of the major Buddhist Masters of Ancient India, translated from the second volume of The Jewel Garland of Buddhist History, compiled by the Tibetan Masters, will surely served as an inspiration to all the students and scholars of the Buddhist Philosophy.
Between the covers of this slim volume, the reader is offered glimpses of the courage, compassion, dedication and the devotion with which luminous Buddhist Master like Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, Asanga, Chandrakirti, Santideva, Santiraksita and Dharmakirti, etc. upheld the Buddhist philosophy and contributed to its enrichment and propagation. Above all, this volume offers a well-abridged biography of the beloved Atisa, the Indian Buddhist Master, who arrested the decline and fall of Buddhism in Tibet and revived it once again with his chief disciple Dromtonpa.
Contents
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
TRANSLTOR’S NOTE
INTRODUCTION
Nagarjuna
Aryadeva and Asvagosa
Buddhapalita
Bhavaviveka
Candrakirti
Candragomi
Asanga
Vasubhandu
Sthirmati
Dignaga
Gunaprabha
Sakyaprabha
Vimuktisena
Dharmakiriti
Santiraksita
Simhabhadra
Santideva
Atisa Dipamkarasrijnana
Revival of Buddhism in Tibet
TEXTS WRITTEN BY THESE PANDITS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY