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The 18 pages that link to Atisha, each with the reason it gives.

• Tibetan BuddhismRelated: His teachings helped shape later Tibetan presentations of the Buddhist path.

• VajrayanaRelated: His teachings influenced Tibetan Buddhist institutions and the integration of tantric practice.

• GelugRelated: His path teachings strongly influenced the Kadampa tradition that Gelug drew upon.

• BodhicittaRelated: His training manual organized methods for cultivating bodhicitta in Tibet.

• Pala EmpireRelated: His career connects eastern Indian monastic learning with Tibet.

• TsongkhapaRelated: Atīśa’s staged path to enlightenment influenced Tsongkhapa’s synthesis of Tibetan teachings.

• Deity yogaRelated: His transmission helped shape the Tibetan frameworks within which tantric practice was taught.

• NaropaRelated: His career offers a contemporary comparison for Indian teachers traveling to Tibet.

• Tibetan Buddhist monasticismRelated: His influence contributed to later Tibetan traditions and their institutions.

• LamrimRelated: His Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment became the foundational model for Lamrim.

• Buddhism in TibetRelated: His teachings helped shape the Kadam tradition and later Tibetan reform movements.

• KadampaRelated: His teachings supplied the principal source for Kadampa’s lineage and reform program.

• TonglenRelated: Tibetan accounts associate Atisha with the transmission of lojong teachings that include tonglen.

• LojongRelated: Tibetan tradition credits Atisha with bringing mind-training instructions from India.

• History of TibetRelated: His teachings influenced the later revival of Tibetan Buddhism after imperial collapse.

• Decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinentRelated: His career links eastern Indian monastic learning to Buddhism’s transmission beyond the subcontinent.