Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra in Tangut Translation - Vol. 1
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The Bodhicaryāvatāra or Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra (Bejing no 5272, Derge 3871) is one of the
most influential texts of Indian Buddhism, both from the perspective of its poetic merits and religious
implications, as one of the basic Mahāyāna compositions.[1] Its importance from both intellectual and
ritualistic perspectives determined its wide popularity throughout the Buddhist realm, but especially
within Tibetan Buddhism. Since the Tanguts had been exposed to Tibetan Buddhism since the early 12th
century, the existence of its Tangut translation is expected.
The Tangut text of the Bodhicaryāvatāra was catalogued by E. I. Kychanov (1932-2013) in his Catalog of Tangut Buddhist texts kept in the Institute of Oriental Studies in St. Petersburg on the basis of preceeding identifications by N. A. Nevskij (1892-1937) and later Nishida Tatsuō (1928-2012).[2] Currently identified fragments of the Tangut translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra include following items: inventory numbers 0781, 0788, 0944, 5096 and 5891. Kychanov also lists a manuscript scroll no 4827, but this text is currently unavailable for our scrutiny. All fragments are woodblock prints in scroll format and codicologically close to each other. Currently available Tangut version of the text includes three juan 卷 (Tangut term), covering chapters from 1 to 8 of both the recieved Sanskrit texts and of the standard Tibetan translations found in various editions of Tibetan Buddhist Canon. That is, for now we cannot neither confirm nor deny the existence of the Tangut translations of the 9th and 10th chapters.
- Tangut translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra3
- General Introduction3
- Titles of the Tangut Translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra and its Composition4
- Origin of the Tangut Text of the Bodhicaryāvatāra5
- Dating the Tangut Translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra7
- The Source Text for the Tangut Translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra8
- Linguistic aspects of the Tangut translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra10
- Metric pattern in the text10
- Preliminary Observations on the Language of Tangut Bodhicaryāvatāra13
- Outline of the Tangut grammar13
- Demonstrative pronouns in the text15
- Tangut Verbs in the Bodhicaryāvatāra17
- Tangut Text of the First juan of the Bodhicaryāvatāra24
- Tangut text with Tibetan and Sanskrit Parallels and Commentary25
- (bodhicittānuśaṃsā)25
- (pāpadeśanā)41
- (bodhicittaparigraha)71
- (bodhicittāpramāda)86
- WORD CORRESPONDENCES LIST109
- TABLE OF SANSKRIT, TANGUT, TIBETAN CORRESPONDENCES137
- TANGUT INDEX150
