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Bodhisatvapitaka: Critical Edition
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The Bodhisatvapiṭaka, “The Collection of Bodhisattvas,” is a Middle Period Mahāyāna sūtra, published here for the first time in Sanskrit. It likely represents an early attempt to provide a consistent and complete exposition of Mahāyāna in the form that became popular at the beginning of the Common Era. The codex unicus, presented here in a diplomatic edition with corrections in the notes, dates from the 9th century CE and is currently kept in Lhasa. The Bodhisatvapiṭaka explains the main teachings and concepts of Mahāyāna Buddhism. The work contains an unusually large number of frame narratives in the form of Jātaka, Avadāna, and Vyākaraṇa. Unlike other Mahāyāna sutras, the Bodhisatvapiṭaka extols monastic ideals, with a layman as its protagonist, whose goal is monasticism. As a first edition, this publication represents a milestone in the study of Mahāyāna Buddhism. (Source: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Citation
Liland, Fredrik, Jens E. Braavrig, Kazunobu Matsuda, and Jens W. Borgland, eds. Bodhisatvapitaka: Critical Edition. Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region 27. Beijing and Vienna: China Tibetology Research Center and Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2026.
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Table of contents
- Introduction ix
- References xix
- Conventions xx
- Abbreviations xxi
- Bodhisatvapiṭaka 1
- Ch. I Gṛhapati 1
- Ch. II Kimbhīrayakṣa 31
- Ch. III Bodhisatvaparīkṣā 39
- Ch. IV Tathāgatācintya 47
- Ch. V Maitrīkaruṇāmuditopekṣā 127
- Ch. VI Dānapāramitā 137
- Ch. VII Śīlapāramitā 145
- Ch. VIII Kṣāntipāramitā 195
- Ch. IX Vīryapāramitā 205
- Ch. X Dhyānapāramitā 265
- Ch. XI Prajñāpāramitā 283
Interconnections
1 Recension of
In The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva, the Buddha describes in detail the views and practices that are to be followed by the bodhisatva, the ideal Mahāyāna practitioner. Through his interactions with human and nonhuman interlocutors, and through stories of various past buddhas, we are led step by step through the topics of renunciation, the mind of awakening, the four immeasurables, and the six perfections. Among the many accounts of past buddhas included in the sūtra, we find the story of the prophecy made by the Buddha Dīpaṅkara to the brahmin Megha about his future attainment of awakening as the Buddha Śākyamuni. (Source: 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha)
