Candragomin's Twenty Verses on the Bodhisattva Vow (Tatz 1982)
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Candragomin's Twenty Verses on the Bodhisattva Vow
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The most important surviving work of Candragomin is his treatise entitled Bodhisattvasaṁvaraviṁśaka.This brief text is neither original in inspiration nor philosophically profound, but concerns the practice of the path. It alludes to the ceremonial reception of the moral vow (śīla-saṁvara) of the bodhisattva and, summarizing the Chapter on Morality of Asaṅga's Bodhisattvabhūmi, outlines the duties and regulations stemming from its acceptance. The significance of the Viṁśaka lies in the fact of its introduction into Tibet by Śāntarakṣita, the first abbot of Bsam-yas, during the early period of Buddhist influence in that country. From that time until the present it has been an important basis for study and practice of the lower levels of the bodhisattva path, and representative of the tradition of ‘extensive practice’ (rgyas-pa'i spyod) stemming from the Yogācāra school.
Citation
Tatz, Mark. "Candragomin's Twenty Verses on the Bodhisattva Vow." In Acārya-Vandanā: D. R. Bhandarkar Birth Centenary Volume, edited by Samaresh Bandyopadhyay, 367-72. Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1982.
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This brief work condenses the major points of the chapter on moral discipline, śīla or tshul khrims in Asaṅga's Bodhisattvabhūmi into twenty verses. Likely intended as a mnemonic work, it covers the major disciplinary points that must be followed by those who have taken the bodhisattva vow.
