High in the Himalayan peaks of Tibet, in the middle of an ancient and beautiful juniper forest, sits the almost 1,000-year-old Reting Monastery, a Tibetan Buddhist landmark with ties to three famous reformers of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Jowo Atisha, an Indian master, traveled to Tibet, where he introduced a groundbreaking synthesis of the Buddhist teachings known as the Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment; Dromtonpa, a nonordained master, was Atisha’s closest disciple and the founder of Reting Monastery; and Je Tsongkhapa, founder of the school of the Dalai Lamas, composed at that same place the Great Stages of the Path, a text that became the centerpiece of Buddhist reform in Tibet.
