Action and Its Result in the Bodhicaryāvatāra

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Action and Its Result in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
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Source Texts of the BCA (Tibetan)


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We have two versions of the Bodhicaryāvatāra: the standard Sanskrit version with ten chapters (abbr. as BCA), and the Tibetan version from Tun-huang with nine chapters (abbr. as BCT). According to recent studies we can assume that the BCT had been written earlier than BCA.[1] Since Chapter 2 of the BCT is divided into two chapters in the BCA (Chapters 2 and 3), Chapter 8 of the BCT, the chapter on Prajñā, which I shall take up here, corresponds to Chapter 9 of the BCA. The difference between two versions is greatest in this chapter: the BCT has only 90.5 kārikās whereas the BCA has 168. As a whole the BCA must have been an extended version of the BCT, but there are also 22.5 kārikās which exist only in the BCT.[2] Here I discuss some of these kārikās, BCT 8.40-44ab and 45-52, specifically the latter half.

Notes
  1. A. Saito, "Śāntideva's Philosophy an Expressed in the Early Version of his Bodhisattva-caryāvatāra, Chapter 8, " Tokai Bukkyo, Journal of Tokai Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies 39, 1994 Nagoya, pp. (1)-(17), and two other publications by the same author indicated in notes (3) and (9) of this article; C. Ishida, "The Prātimokṣa and the Deśanā-ritual in the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Some Evidences of its Revision and Retranslation," The Bukkyo Shigaku Kenkyu, The Journal of the History of Buddhism 36-2, Kyoto 1993, pp. (1)-(27) and another paper by the same author indicated in the note (4) of this article.
  2. Saito (1993) p. (25).
Citation
Ishida, Chikō. "Action and Its Result in the Bodhicaryāvatāra." Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyū (Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies) 44, no. 2 (1996): 23–28.
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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.