The Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Guide to the Buddhist Path to Awakening-Review by Gethin
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The classics of Indian literature are not readily available in English translation-one thinks of the principal Upanishads and Bhagavadgīta as the exceptions that prove the rule. It is therefore good to see Oxford University Press trying to broaden the range of its 'World's Classics' series by including a number of fresh, scholarly translations from Sanskrit. Kate Crosby and Andrew Skilton's translation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra.
The translation is presented here with a considerable explanatory apparatus: a general introduction, 'Śāntideva and his world' (pp. vii xxvi) by Paul Williams; a translators' introduction (pp. xxvii-xlii); short-and sometimes, at over ten pages, not so short-introductions to each of the ten chapters of the text; and finally 46 pages of endnotes commenting on individual verses (pp. 145-91). Indeed, the translators comment that they 'have been surprised by how much explanatory material seemed appropriate' (p. xxv), and for the most part one must conclude that the explanatory material they provide is both helpful to the general reader and informative for the specialist. Read more here
