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Two Early Biographical Accounts of Atiśa Preserved in Tangut Sources.

While the extant Tibetan biographies of Atiśa Dīpa...karasśrījñāna (982-1054) are abundant, most of the datable ones were completed three hundred years after Atisśa's death. However, two Tangut manuscripts offer early biographical accounts of Atisśa as they were written in the Tangut State (1038-122...

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Published in:Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 145; no. 1; pp. 65 - 91
Main Author: ZHOUYANG MA
Format: Article
Published: American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA) Jan-Mar2025
Subjects:
Manuscripts
Buddhism
Biographies of Buddhists
Historiography
Devotional literature
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