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Atisha (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on Atisha, community-edited. States his 1042 CE arrival in Tibet at the invitation of Yeshe-O, king of the western Tibetan kingdom of Guge, who sought to restore what he saw as a purer form of Buddhism after the fragmentation following Langdarma's reign; Atisha's three years spent at Tholing compiling his Bodhipathapradipa (Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment); and his standing as a leading figure of Tibet's later diffusion (phyi dar) of Buddhism, whose teaching founded the Kadam lineage.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atisha
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Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the 1042 arrival date, the Guge invitation, and Atisha's standing as a leading figure of the later diffusion, all stated plainly in the article's own text. NotesUsed for Tibet's second diffusion, marked by Atisha's 1042 arrival.
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