Bka' gdams glegs bam pha chos bu chos. (Kadam Lekbam Pachö Buchö). In Tibetan, "The Book of Bka' gdams, Dharma of the Father and Sons" originating with the Indian master Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna a seminal work of the Bka' gdams sect of Tibetan Buddhism, being the primary text of the oral-instruction (man ngag) lineage organized into its present version by Mkhan chen Nyi ma rgyal mtshan (Kenchen Nyima Gyaltsen) in 1302. "Dharma of the Father" refers to Atiśa's responses to questions posed by his foremost Tibetan student 'Brom ston Rgyal ba'i 'byung gnas (the two "fathers" of Bka' gdams); "Dharma of the Sons" refers to Atiśa's responses to questions posed by Rngog Legs pa'i shes rab and Khu ston Brtson 'grus g.yung drung (Kutön Tsondrü Yungdrung), the spiritual sons of Atiśa and 'Brom ston pa. (Source: "Bka' gdams glegs bam pha chos bu chos." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 123. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
| Citation | bka' gdams glegs bam [བཀའ་གདམས་གླེགས་བམ།]. [The Book of Kadam]. |
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| Author | Dromtönpa |
