Atisha
982-1054

aka: Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana
Buddhist master from India

born Bengal area

prince of royal family

studied and traveled in India, then to Tibet

considered part of the Tantra/Tibetan Buddhist tradition

Osho book, The Book of Wisdom uses Atisha's 7 Points
of Mind Training as sutras.
 Atisha is very mathematical; no great mathematician
can be so mathematical as he is. He is moving step by
step. First he says: Don't seek spurious comforts; that is
going astray. Don't escape from your sorrowful state; go
into it. Let this become your one goal: the search for the
truth of your being. He is not talking about any truth that
lives somewhere in the sky, he is not talking about any
philosophical truth. He is talking about the truth that you
are; he is talking about you. He is utterly psychological,
he is not talking about metaphysics...

                                                         --Osho
                                     The Book of Wisdom, ch. 17
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