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Buddhist Texts Through the Ages: Newly Translated from the Original Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Apabhramsa

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• A Buddhist 'good life' Theory: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• A Buddhist Carol
• A Fearless Heart
• A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night
• A Mirror Is for Reflection
• A Nirvana that Is Burning in Hell: Pain and Flourishing in Mahayana Buddhist Moral Thought
• A Note on Mahāyāna Buddhism and the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• A Response to John Pettit
• A Role for Primordial Wisdom in the Buddhist Free Will Controversy
• A Selfless Response to an Illusory World: A Comparative Study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara
• A Short Presentation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• A Study of Akṣayamati (Śāntideva)'s Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra as Found in the Tibetan Manuscripts From Tun-huang
• A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati
• Account of the Period of the Kings Cala, Pañcamasiṃha and Others
• Akṣayamati and Śāntideva
• Altruism and Reality (1998)
• Altruism and Reality-Review by Franco
• Altruism and Reality-Review by Pettit
• Altruism as Antidote to Demagoguery: Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara Chapter 3 as Method for Countering Identity Divisions
• Altruism in the Charnel Ground: Śāntideva and Parfit on Anātman, Reductionism and Benevolence
• An Argument for Cittamātra: Reflections on Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:28 (Tib. 27) cd
• An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 9
• An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics
• Atiśa's Introduction to the Two Truths, and Its Sources
• Becoming Bodhisattvas
• Bhadracaryāvidhi in the Śikṣāsamuccaya Chapt. 16
• Bile & Bodhisattvas: Śāntideva on Justified Anger
• Blasphemie und Sakrileg im Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Verses Bodhicaryāvatāra 6.64
• Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra als Lehrschrift und Vorhaben: Zum Thema Ritual, Religion, Philosophie und Mystik im Buddhismus
• Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:2 as a Focus for Tibetan Interpretations of the Two Truths in the Prāsangika Mādhyamika
• Bodhicaryāvatāra and Bodhicaryāvatāra-Pañjikā (Malalasekera)
• Bodhicaryāvatāra: Governing the Bodhisattvas Way of Life
• Bodhicitta: Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment
• Bodhisattva e Prajñāpāramitā nel Bodhicaryāvatāra di Śāntideva
• Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Exposition de la pratique des bodhisattvas
• Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana
• Bodies and Embodiment in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Bu ston on the sPyod 'jug (Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra)
• Buddha Mind - Christ Mind
• Buddha's Lions
• Buddhism as Reductionism: Personal Identity and Ethics in Parfitian Readings of Buddhist Philosophy
• From Steven Collins to the Present
• Buddhist Ethics (2003)
• Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Conventional Truth: Path and Transformation
• Buddhist Mereological Analysis in the Milindapañhā, Vasubandhu's Twenty Verses, and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Buddhist Texts Through the Ages
• Built on Emptiness: Śūnyatā as a Basis for Mahāyāna Ethics, With References to Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Can We Kill Illusory People? Some Philosophical Reflections on Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra 9:11-13ab
• Comparative Confession: A Comparative Study of Confession in the Writings of Tertullian, Cassian, and Śāntideva
• Compassion and the Net of Indra
• Compassion as a Matter of Fact: The Argument from No-Self to Selflessness in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
• Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism
• Compassion in Our Day: Learning from Shantideva
• Compassion in Schopenhauer and Śāntideva
• Conclusion: The Socratic Paradigm
• Consequences of Compassion
• Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics-Review by Meyers
• Consequentialism, Agent-Neutrality, and Mahāyāna Ethics
• Consequentialism, Particularism, and the Emptiness of Persons: A Response to Vishnu Sridharan
• Cooking Living Beings: The Transformative Effects of Encounters with Bodhisattva Bodies
• Courageous Compassion
• Critique of Self in the Early and Later Versions of the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• Cultivating Bodhicitta: Wisdom and Compassion in Śāntideva's Introduction to the Awakened Life
• Das 7. Kapitel über die Tatkraft in Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Das Ritual der Entschlussfassung im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Kap. II und III)
• Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara)
• Did Śāntideva Destroy the Bodhisattva Path?
• Die Lehre von Satyadvaya in 'Ju Mi phams Nor bu ke ta ka
• Die zwei Wahrheiten
• Die zwei Wirklichkeiten
• Does "Buddhist Ethics" Exist?
• Does Anātman Rationally Entail Altruism? On Bodhicaryāvatāra 8:101-103
• Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
• Emptiness and Moral Perfection
• Entering the Path of Enlightenment
• Entering the Path of Enlightenment-Review by Cook
• Entering the Path of Enlightenment-Review by Seyfort Ruegg
• Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva
• Ethics (Garfield)
• Ethics and the Subversion of Conceptual Reification in Lévinas and Śāntideva
• Ethics in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
• Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism
• Ethics in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A Study in Mahāyāna Morality
• Exchanging Self and Other
• Experience and Morality: Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology
• Extreme Giving: The Vessantara Jātaka and Shantideva's A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
• Facts or Fictions: Reconsidering Śāntideva's Names, Life, and Works
• Fierce Devotion to all Beings: The Role of Emotions in Śāntideva’s Introduction to the Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra)
• Following in the Buddha's Footsteps
• Freedom from Responsibility: Agent-Neutral Consequentialism and the Bodhisattva Ideal
• From Madhyamaka to Consequentialism: A Road Map
• General Introduction: Śāntideva and His World
• Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108
• Healing Anger
• Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective-Review by Naga
• How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)
• Hume as a Western Mādhyamika: The Case from Ethics
• Identifying the Object of Negation: On Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:140 (Tib. 139)
• Indian Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy after Nagarjuna, Vol. 2
• Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva's Cultivation of Compassion
• Internal and External Opposition to the Bodhisattva's Gift of His Body
• Introduction to Gzhan gyis brtsad pa'i lan mdor bsdus pa rigs lam rab gsal de nyid snang byed: An Answer to Blo-bzang-rab-gsal's Refutation of the Author's 'Sher le nor bu ke ta ka' and Its Defence, the Brgal lan nyin byed snang ba
• La conception de la realité dans L'Entrèe dans la voie de l'illumination de Santideva
• La légende de Śāntideva
• Le commentaire de Mi-pham au chapitre IX du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva: Échos modernes d'une controverse du XVème siècle
• Madhyamaka Ethics
• Mahasiddhas: La vie de 84 sages de l'Inde
• Making and Remaking the Ultimate in Early Tibetan Readings of Śāntideva
• Mapping the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Masters of Mahāmudrā
• Mental Purification (Blo sbyong): A Native Tibetan Genre of Religious Literature
• Mi pham and the Philosophical Controversies of the Nineteenth Century
• Mindfulness and Ethics: Attention, Virtue and Perfection
• Mindfulness and Moral Transformation: Awakening to Others in Śāntideva's Ethics
• Moderation or the Middle Way: Two Approaches to Anger
• Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness
• Moral Pluralism, Skillful Means, and Environmental Ethics
• Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
• Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya-Review by Osto
• Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue-Review by Goodman
• Mādhyamika: Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Nichtselbst, Leerheit und Altruistische Ethik im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Lecture Transcript)
• Nichtselbst, Leerheit und Altruistische Ethik im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Official Publication)
• Nyubosatsugyō-ron kaisetsu saisho no Shyāntidēva rikai
• On Akṣayamati's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• On Altruism and Rebirth: Philosophical Comments on Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 97-8
• On Philosophical View of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• On Prakṛtinirvāṇa-Prakṛtinirvṛta in the Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Study in the Indo-Tibetan Commentarial Tradition
• On the Classification of Śāntideva's Ethics in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• On Śāntideva's Position in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
• One Aspect of the Acceptance of the Bodhisattva-śīla in Tibet
• Patience and Perspective
• Peaceful Heart
• Perfecting Patience
• Perfecting Wisdom
• Practicing Wisdom
• Proof of the Authenticity of the Mahāyāna in Akṣayamati's Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• Puṇya and Pāp in Public Health: Everyday Religion, Material Culture, and Avenues of Buddhist Activism in Urban Kathmandu
• Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
• Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice-Review by Harris
• Readings on Yogācāra Buddhism
• Reason and Knowledge on the Path: A Protreptic Reading of the Guide
• Reason, Irrationality and Akrasia (Weakness of the Will) in Buddhism: Reflections upon Śāntideva's Arguments with Himself
• Remarks on Akṣayamati (Blo gros mi zad pa), Being the Author of the Earlier Version of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• Remarks on the Philosophical Standpoint of the Anonymous Commentary, Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravyākhyāna(-pañjikā)
• René Girard, Śāntideva, and the Emptiness of Desire
• Reply to Paul Williams
• Resentment and Reality: Buddhism on Moral Responsibility
• Response to Mark Siderits' Review
• Santideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Santideva, un mistico del Buddhismo
• Seeing Sentient Beings: Śāntideva's Moral Phenomenology
• Self-Protection through Mindfulness, Śāntideva
• Self-Sceptical Ethics and Selfless Morality: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Overview
• Selfhood and the Metaphysics of Altruism
• Selfless Ethics: The Equality of Non-Existence
• Selflessness and Normativity: Śāntideva and Emptiness Ethics
• Shantideva (From Butön's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet, Translated by Lisa Stein and Ngawang Zangpo)
• Shantideva (Nariman)
• Shantideva and Bodhicaryavatara: A Close Reading
• Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara: An Internal Pilgrimage to Universal Peace and Compassion
• Shantideva's Bodhisattvacharyavatara: The Way of the Bodhisattva
• Ninth Chapter Analysis
• Shantideva's Teaching
• Shāntideva (Tib. Shi-wa-lha)
• Spinoza through the Prism of Later 'East-West' Exchanges: Analogues of Buddhist Themes in the Ethics and the Works of Early Spinozists
• Stoics and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual Exercise and Faith in Two Philosophical Traditions
• Stotra, Psychological Conditioning, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Together with a Translation of the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda
• Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra (2000)
• Sāntideva, The Bodhicaryāvatāra, Chapter 8 (verses 89-140)
• Tant que durera l'espace
• The Absence of Self and the Removal of Pain: How Śāntideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path
• The Awakening Mind (Tsering 2008)
• The Bodhi-caryâvatāra and Its Monastic Aspects: On the Problem of Representation
• The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature
• The Bodhisattva Guide
• The Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• The Bodhisattva and the Ideal of Moral Wisdom in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
• The Case of 'Ju Mi pham (1846–1912) and Dpa' ris Rab gsal (1840–1912): A Study in Dgag lan Debate
• The Center of the Sunlit Sky
• The Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature
• The Compassionate Gift of Vice: Śāntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty
• The Concept of Bodhicitta in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara
• The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Diss)
• The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Edelglass
• The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Tatz
• The Connection between Ontology and Ethics in Madhyamaka Thought
• The Elusive Buddhist Self: Preliminary Reflections on Its Denial
• The Ethics of Mahāyāna Buddhism in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva
• The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by Abramson
• The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by Javanaud
• The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by O'Leary
• The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India
• The Mahāsiddha Bhusuku (Śāntideva), The Idle Monk
• The Masters and Poets of the Mahāyāna
• The Meaning of Sugata in the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā
• The Metaphysical Basis of Śāntideva's Ethics
• The Middle Way of the Bodhisattva
• The Perfection of Wisdom (Schopen)
• The Philosophical Basis of Worship in the Works of Śāntideva
• The Reality of Altruism: Reconstructing Śāntideva, A Review of Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicāryāvatāra, by Paul Williams
• The Relationship between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training according to the Śikṣāsamuccaya
• The Resolve to Become a Buddha
• The Role of Solitude (viveka) in the Eighth Chapter (Dhyānapāramitā) of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• The Self and the Other in Bodhicaryāvatāra: Part 1
• The Self and the Suffering Other: Levinas and Śāntideva on the Ethics of Compassion
• The Selfless Removal of Pain: A Critical Glance at Śāntideva's Argument in Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 101–3
• The Training Anthology of Śāntideva
• The Triskandha, Practice in Three Parts: Study of an Early Mahāyāna Buddhist Ritual
• The Śāntideva Passage: Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII.90–103
• Theory and Comparison in the Discussion of Buddhist Ethics
• Traces of Consequentialism and Non-Consequentialism in Bodhisattva Ethics
• Two Kinds of Saṃvṛtis in the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā IX 3-8
• Uncommon Happiness
• Uses of the Illusion of Agency: Why Some Buddhists Should Believe in Free Will
• Virtuous Bodies
• Waking into Compassion: The Three Ālambana of Karuṇā
• What Is It Like to Be a Bodhisattva? Moral Phenomenology in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Where Does the Cetanic Break Take Place? Weakness of Will in Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Why War? Why Not Peace? Santideva's Answer to Einstein's Famous Question to Freud
• Zu einer zentralen philosophischen Kontroverse mit den "orthodoxen" Philosophen
• Zum Konzept der Leerheit im BCA
• Ācārya Śantideva's Humanism
• Śāntideva (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Śāntideva (Karen Lang)
• Śāntideva (Potter, Kalupahana, and Sweet)
• Śāntideva (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Śāntideva and Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Śāntideva and Kant: An East-West Comparative Study in Ethics
• Śāntideva and an Ethic of Radical Compassion
• Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Śāntideva as a Mantracarin
• Śāntideva in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
• Śāntideva's Attitude towards Vijñāna Theory
• Śāntideva's Criticism of Vijñānavāda and Bodhicitta
• Śāntideva's Critique of 'I' or Self in the Early and Later Recensions of the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• Śāntideva's Ethics of Impartial Compassion
• Śāntideva's Impartialist Ethics
• Śāntideva's Philosophy as Expressed in the Early Version of His Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra, Chapter 8
• Śāntideva, A Mystic of Buddhism
• Śāntideva, Virtue, and Consequentialism
• Śāntideva, il Bodhicaryāvatāra e le kārikā del Śikṣāsamuccaya
• Śāntideva, il Bodhicaryāvatāra e le kārikā del Śikṣāsamuccaya-Review by Pāsādika
• Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles
• Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles-Review by Cabezón
• Śāntideva: The Author and His Project
• Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra: Das Weiterwirken des Werkes dargestellt anhand der Überlieferungsgeschichte des Textes und seiner Kommentare

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

Edward Conze presents the premier anthology of Buddhist texts and scriptures in this stunningly ambitious collection. He traces the development of Buddhism through the ages, with translations from the original Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan and Japanese. For those looking for the perfect companion to Conze’s original text, Buddhism, or for those new to Buddhist theology, Buddhist Texts Through the Ages contains a thorough and comprehensive guide to the theology. This edition also includes a glossary of English and foreign terms. (Source: Philosophical Library)

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Conze, Edward, trans. and ed. Buddhist Texts Through the Ages: Newly Translated from the Original Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Apabhramsa. In collaboration with I. B. Horner, D. Snellgrove, and A. Waley. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954.

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Table of contents

Introduction First Part THE TEACHING OF THE ELDERS By I. B. Horner

• THE SAMGHA17
  • THE ORDER OF MONKS AND NUNS
    • Conversion of Anathapindika17
    • Conversion of General Siha20
    • Ordination of Pajapati the Great23
    • Visakha, the Laywoman Supporter26
    • Schism28
  • SKILL IN MEANS33
  • ARAHANTS42
  • THE BUDDHIST APOCALYPSE45

• THE DHAMMA51
  • THE FIVE FACULTIES
    • The Five Faculties collectively51
    • The Five Faculties separately52
    • Faith52
    • Vigour54
    • Mindfulness56
    • Concentration60
    • Wisdom64

• • CONDITIONED GENESIS
    • Conditioned Genesis collectively65
    • Conditioned Genesis separately70
    • Ignorance70
    • Consciousness70
    • Feeling72
    • Craving73
    • Grasping74
    • Birth, Ageing and Dying76

• • THE OBJECT OF WISDOM
    • Crossing Over82
    • Emptiness90
    • Nirvana92

• THE BUDDHA AND TATHAGATA103

Second Part THE MAHAYANA By Edward Conze

• BASIC NOTIONS119
  • CRITICISM OF THE HINAYANA POSITION
    • Bodhisattvas and Disciples119
    • The Conversion of Sariputra120
    • The two Nirvanas124

• • THE BODHISATTVA
    • Descriptions127
    • His Infinite Compassion131
    • The DedicatIon of Merit132

• • THE SIX PERFECTIONS
    • Definition135
    • The six Perfections and the Body136
    • The Perfection of Giving136
    • The Perfection of Patience137
    • The Perfection of Meditation138

• • THE BUDDHA
    • The Tathagata as a Rain-cloud139
    • The real Buddha140
    • The Tathagatas' Coming and Going143
    • The Dharma-body143
    • Tathagata and Suchness144
    • The 18 Special dharmas of a Buddha145

• NEW WISDOM SCHOOL146
  • THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM146
  • THE ELUSIVENESS OF PERFECT WISDOM149
  • THE DOCTRINE OF PERFECT WISDOM152
  • EMPTINESS
    • Preliminary Meditations158
    • Definitions and Synonyms of Emptiness163
    • Negations172
    • Contradictions175
    • Unreality of the World177
    • Emptiness and Salvation179
    • The Germ of Buddhahood in all Beings181

• THE BUDDHISM OF FAITH185
  • FAITH185
  • THE ACTS AND REWARDS OF DEVOTION186
  • THE OBJECTS OF DEVOTION
    • The Buddha190
    • Avalokitesvara194
    • Tara196
  • THE PURE LAND202

• YOGACARINS207
  • MIND ONLY207
  • TWOFOLD EGOLESSNESS211
  • IRREALITY OF THE WORLD212
  • THE BUDDHA AS THE BASIS OF ALL216

Third Part THE TANTRAS By David Snellgrove

• • • The Cleansing of Thought221
    • Supreme Enlightenment221
    • Saraha's Treasury of Songs224
    • Anangavajra, The Attainment of the Realization of Wisdom and Means240
    • Note on the Mandala246
    • Advayavajra, The fivefold Manifestation249
    • An Evocation of Prajnaparamita252
    • The Mandala conceived within254
    • The Story of Tanti255
    • Mila Repa and the Novices257

Fourth Part TEXTS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN By Arthur Waley

• Introduction
• TEXTS ORIGINATING IN INDIA274
  • • The Parable of Me and Mine274
    • On the Curing of Illness contracted during Dhyana Practice274
    • Meditation upon the Element Water275
    • Judging the Character of a Dhyana Pupil276
    • The Bracelets278
    • All Words are true278
    • Buddha's Doctrine279
    • The Negation of Dhyana280
    • Po Chu-i. Poem On Reading the Dhyana Sutra281
    • Nationality282
    • The Intermediate State283
    • Devas repeople the Earth283
    • Buddha's Pity285

• TEXTS ORIGINATING IN CHINA AND JAPAN287
  • • A Hinayana Sect in early China287
    • The Truly So290
    • From the Lives of the Nuns291
    • On Trust in the Heart295
    • From the Conversations of Shen-hui299
    • A nice Mountain302
    • Rain-making302

• BIBLIOGRAPHY307
• SOURCES311
• GLOSSARY313
• ABBREVIATIONS323

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Conze, Edward, trans. "Akshayamati Sūtra: Selection 170." In Buddhist Texts Through the Ages: Newly Translated from the Original Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Apabhramsa, edited by Edward Conze, 185–86. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954.

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Edward Conze translates a passage from the Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra as found in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya.

Conze, Edward, trans. "Avalokana Sūtra: Selection 172." In Buddhist Texts Through the Ages: Newly Translated from the Original Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Apabhramsa, edited by Edward Conze, 186–88. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954.

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Edward Conze translates a passage from the Avalokinīsūtra as found in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya.

Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Prajñāpāramitā - A class of Mahāyāna sūtras which represents some of the earliest known literature of this genre of Buddhism. There are around forty texts associated with this category, though the most widespread is the exceedingly brief Prajñāpāramitāhṛdayasūtra, popularly known as the Heart Sūtra. This class of literature is typically associated with the second turning of the dharma wheel and especially with the teachings on emptiness (śūnyatā). As such, these texts were the primary scriptural source for the philosophy of the Madhyamaka school. Skt प्रज्ञापारमिता  Tib ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་;ཤེར་ཕྱིན་  Ch 般若波羅蜜多  

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Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra [आर्याक्षयमतिनिर्देशनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa blo gros mi zad pas bstan pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་བློ་གྲོས་མི་ཟད་པས་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of the Teaching of Akṣayamati (84000)]. Translated by Dharmatāśīla, Chih-yen, Pao-yün, Dharmarakṣa. Kangyur, RKTSK 175 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=175&typ=1.

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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Śikṣāsamuccaya [शिक्षासमुच्चय]. bslab pa kun las btus pa [བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ།]. [The Compendium of Training]. Tengyur, RKTST 3281 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3281&typ=2.

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Avalokanasūtra [आर्यावलोकिनीनाममहायानसूत्र]. 'phags pa spyan ras gzigs zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo [འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ།]. [The Sūtra of Avalokinī (84000)]. Translated by Jinamitra, Dānaśīla, Ye shes sde. Kangyur, RKTSK 195 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=195&typ=1.

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