As time elapsed Atiśa's wish to enter the religious life strengthened, but his parents identified him as the brightest of their sons and natural successor to power.

Therefore, as he turned the customary age of eleven years old, surrounding him with the luxuries and extravagance of royalty, Atiśa's parents commenced the decorative courtship and matrimonial preparations so that the prince might find a bride among the kingdom's beautiful young women of nobility.

Returning to the royal palace, Atiśa's parents and subjects believed he had gone mad during his jungle refuge.

Essentially, Atiśa's motivation in renouncing the wealth and luxury in his life was to repay his parents and fellow beings.

This effect of Atiśa's birth corresponds directly with the Buddhist concept of dedicating one's life to the uplifting and enlightenment of all conscious beings.

Such an interpretation of Atiśa's first public appearance, found in Buddhist texts and historical accounts, strongly reinforces a couple of critical components of Buddhist philosophy.

Atiśa's return from Sumatra and rise to prominence in India coincided with a flourishing of Buddhist culture and the practice of Dharma in the region, and in many ways Atiśa's influence contributed to these developments.

As such, it seems as though Atiśa's two-year journey to Tibet is interpreted within the Buddhist tradition as a fulfilment of destiny.

The city of Vikramapura, the most probable candidate for Atiśa's birthplace, was the capital of the ancient kingdoms of Southeast Bengal.

* Geshe Sonam Rinchen, Atiśa's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, Snow Lion Publications

They are elaborations of Atiśa's 11th Century root text A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment ( Bodhipathapradīpa ).

However, all versions of the lamrim are elaborations of Atiśa's 11th Century root text A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment ( Bodhipathapradīpa ).

It was here that Atiśa's potential as an extraordinary religious and spiritual leader initially emerged.

In understanding his reasons and remembering the religious signs that accompanied the prince's birth, Atiśa's mother willingly gave her consent and approved her son's decision to pursue the Dharma.

Consequently, Atiśa's unnecessary pride was reduced to humbleness overnight and he continued towards the path of enlightenment.

Moreover, Atiśa's spiritual proficiency at this point is demonstrated through both kindness towards his subjects and non-attachment towards his familial, social, and overall life situation.

Atiśa's acquisition of the wisdom to perceive emptiness is particularly significant.

" Coming from a background of nobility and material wealth, Atiśa's realisation of value as a freely determined product of perception represents a relative challenge and an alteration of life principles with substantial ontological ramifications.

First, he cast a lightning bolt in Atiśa's direction as he first approached.

Atiśa's father, on the other hand, was much harder to convince and, like the Shakyamuni Buddha's own father, only conceded after multiple requests.

In truth, Atiśa's undertaking in Tibet was never in doubt.

Prophecies of the impending departure begin with Dharmarakṣita in Sumatra and follow Atiśa's story up until his vision of Tārā.

Atiśa's closest disciple, Dromtönpa, is considered the founder of the Kadam school, which later evolved into the Gelug, one of the four main school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Atiśa's presentation of the doctrine later became known as the Kadampa tradition in Tibet.

Tsongkhapa, founder of the Gelug school which is primarily based on Atiśa's Kadampa school, wrote one of his masterpieces on lamrim: The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path of Enlightenment ( Tib.

It was Dromptonpa's student Chekawa Yeshe Dorje who first compiled Atiśa's core teachings on the practice of bodhicitta in written form, as The Seven Point Mind Training.

Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.

This was part of a response to an Aboriginal Stolen Generations inquiry, which found widespread suffering had taken place amongst Australian Aboriginal children forcibly placed into the care of white parents in a little-publicised state government scheme.

* July 22 – News of the World urges its readers to sign a petition for Sarah's Law, new legislation in response to the murder of Sarah Payne, which would give parents the right to know whether a convicted paedophile was living in their area.

While historians have traditionally suggested that his parents sent him to Lake Forest to discourage his interest in jazz, others have begun to doubt this version of events, believing that he may have been sent away in response to his arrest.

Soolin is an expert gunslinger, distinctive for her apparent lack of fear or self-doubt, perhaps developed in response to the fact that her parents were murdered when she was a child.

Dr. Larry Nelson, one of the three Marriage, Family, and Human Development professors to perform the study, also noted that some Millennials are delaying the transition from childhood to adulthood as a response to mistakes made by their parents.

In response to demands by parents to explain the firing, board president Dave Engels said the board is not allowed to discuss personnel issues publicly.

In response to their constituents, state legislators across the country are introducing legislation intended to help inform physicians and expectant parents on the options for donating, discarding or banking lifesaving newborn stem cells.

In response, Janssen released a statement that the money was for a program " aimed at educating teens, parents, and educators about the prevalence and serious risks of teen prescription drug abuse in the U. S ." CNN Headline News spokesperson Alison Rudnick, which broadcasts Dr. Drew, stated that Pinsky would include on-air disclaimers during any stories involving Janssen.

Winnicott thought the parents ' quick response of feeding the baby gives the baby a sense that whenever she's hungry, food appears as if by magic, as if the baby herself makes food appear just by being hungry.

In response, the Legislative Council proposed to restrict the right of such persons by adding an additional requirement that one of the child's parents must have been a permanent resident at the time of the child's birth.

School psychologists seek assistance from community services in mental health, health, and crisis response ; educate the public, parents, and schools through trainings on issues facing students and schools.

Not only do infants respond to cues around them, like their parents ' faces, but they also take steps to control their environment, such as crying to get a response from their caregivers.

The response does not make clear whether this provision is intended to apply to both parents involved in a child residence dispute.

* I Do I Do I Do ( published by Ivy Liu / Premier Foundation 2001 ): in response to his parents ' pressure to marry, Chang began photographing newlywed couples in Taiwan.

The stated priorities of the organization are the decriminalization of responsible drug use, the promotion of harm reduction and treatment in response to drug misuse, and the facilitation of open dialog about drugs between youth, parents, and educators.

In response to their constituents, state legislators across the United States are introducing legislation intended to help inform physicians and expectant parents on the options for donating, discarding, or banking lifesaving newborn stem cells.

She secretly taught her personal slave to read and write, but when her parents discovered the young tutor at work, the vehemence of her father ’ s response proved alarming.

The AAP received numerous letters in response to the statement, many claiming passionately that water birth had strong benefits and minimal risks for both parents and children and criticizing the AAP for failing to publish positive studies about the practice.

" The article was a response to reports in the news media of ' talks ' given by African-American parents to their children warning them against white authority figures.

Over the years, the Minister of Justice has increased the number of name kanji, and has a plan for further addition in response to requests from parents.

The Autism Awareness Campaign – United Kingdom was launched in 2000 by British parents and carers Ivan and his wife Charika Corea in response to the autism diagnosis of their son, Charin.

In response to the concern about refusing medical care, which led to some parents being imprisoned after a 1910 diphtheria outbreak in Essex, the sect split between the ' Old Peculiars ', who still rebuffed medicine, and the ' New Peculiars ', who somewhat reluctantly condoned it.

Georgio's parents had learned of him being manipulated into performing sex for older boys in school, and the father's response was to try to beat it out of the boy.