A Summons to Buddhahood: The Bodhicaryavatara as Santideva's Call to Embrace the Bodhicitta

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A Summons to Buddhahood: The Bodhicaryavatara as Santideva's Call to Embrace the Bodhicitta
The Bodhisattva Path According to Śāntideva


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Jack, Anthony Abraham. "A Summons to Buddhahood: The Bodhicaryavatara as Santideva's Call to Embrace the Bodhicitta." BA Honors thesis, Amherst College, 2007.
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An "Introduction to Bodhisattva Practice," the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra is a poem about the path of a bodhisattva, in ten chapters, written by the Indian Buddhist Śāntideva (fl. c. 685–763). One of the masterpieces of world literature, it is a core text of Mahāyāna Buddhism and continues to be taught, studied, and commented upon in many languages and by many traditions around the world. The main subject of the text is bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment, and the path and practices of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (pāramitās). The text forms the basis of many contemporary discussions of Buddhist ethics and philosophy.