Bodhicaryāvatāra (Mongolian Script)

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This volume presents the Mongolian translation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra ("The Way of the Bodhisattva"), translated by the Tibetan scholar Chos kyi 'od zer. Edited by the eminent Russian Mongolist Boris Yakovlevich Vladimirtsov (1884–1931), this edition contains the Mongolian script text of this foundational Mahāyāna Buddhist treatise on the bodhisattva path. Originally published as Volume XXVIII of the Bibliotheca Buddhica series by the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad (1929–1930), this Motilal Banarsidass edition is a reprint of that scholarly work. The Bibliotheca Buddhica series, founded in 1897 in St. Petersburg by Sergei Oldenburg, is a collection of Buddhist original texts in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Uiguric, Turkish, and Mongolian, making rare Buddhist manuscripts accessible to scholars.

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Vladimircov, B. J., ed. Bodhicaryāvatāra: (Mongolian Script). Bibliotheca Buddhica 28. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1992.

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Bodhicaryāvatāra

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.

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Bodhicaryāvatāra

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.

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Bodhicaryāvatāra (Vladimirtsov 1929)

Mongolian translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra by Chos kyi 'od zer (fl. 1305–1321), edited by Boris Vladimirtsov.

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