Vimalaratnalekha
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Vimalaratnalekha (T. dri ma med pa'i rin po che'i 'phrin yig དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཕྲིན་ཡིག་;[1] "Letter [Like a] Spotless Jewel") A collection of moral maxims for the guidance of devout Buddhists, composed by Atisha at at the request of Nayapala, king of Magadha.
The text is extant in Sanskrit and Tibetan.
Tibetan text
The Tibetan text is found in the Derge Tengyur, Toh 4188
Atisha's text Bodhisattvamaṇyāvalī is included almost in its entirety within this text.
English translation
- Atisha, Vimala-ratna-lekha-nama, translated by Dipankar Lama, New Dehli: Northern Book Center, 2008. Google Books overview, Google Books preview, Publisher's page
Notes
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དྲི་མ་མེད་པའི་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་འཕྲིན་ཡིག་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
