Quotes About Ati?a

Dromtönpa, Ati?a's chief disciple,

Who, then, is Serlingpa?14 All biographies of Ati?a state that whenever he would utter Serlingpa's name, tears would fall down his cheeks. They report that Ati?a exclaimed that whatever degree of good heart he possessed was due entirely to Serlingpa.

Ati?a, following N?g?rjuna's commentator Candrak?rti, held that although our everyday language adequately describes apparent reality, philosophical discourse nevertheless has a necessary role: not system-building but the criticism of our presuppositions, dismantling them until we arrive at the profound realization of emptiness and the opening that this entails.