[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Bodhisattva path, ethics and meditation manuals](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga) › [Works of Atiśa Dīpaṅkaraśrījñāna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.atisa) › [Bodhipathapradīpa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.atisa.bodhipathapradipa) › [བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.atisa.bodhipathapradipa*bo) › [The Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.atisa.bodhipathapradipa*bo~en-dowd) › p9 # བྱང་ཆབ་ལམ་གྱ་སྒྲན་མ p9 The Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment p9 - **Language:** English ### [p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.atisa.bodhipathapradipa*bo~en-dowd.p9) The present text, The Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, is a masterpiece of Buddhist literature. As noted in the first and final verses, Atiśa composed the treatise at the urging of Jangchub Ö, who became king following his uncle’s death. The text fully integrates the three vehicles of the Buddha’s teachings and shows them to be entirely non-contradictory. Doboom Tulku and Glenn Mullin note that “it is largely due to \[Atiśa\] that today all Tibetan sects of Buddhism are a combination of Hinayana, general Mahayana and Vajrayana doctrines.”\[3\] The great nineteenth-century master Dza Patrul Rinpoche wrote that although Atiśa had full mastery over the entire range of Buddhist teachings, sūtra and tantra, the foundational practice of taking refuge was of such paramount importance to him that Tibetans nicknamed him the ‘Refuge Paṇḍita.’\[4\] - [Previous: p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.atisa.bodhipathapradipa*bo~en-dowd.p8) - [Next: p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.atisa.bodhipathapradipa*bo~en-dowd.p10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.atisa.bodhipathapradipa*bo~en-dowd.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.marga.atisa.bodhipathapradipa*bo~en-dowd.p9) · Pramāṇa