Preliminary Survey of Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Bodhicaryāvatāra

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Preliminary Survey of Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
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Daniel Stender ("Preliminary Survey of Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Bodhicaryāvatāra") offers a thorough survey of the available manuscripts of the Bodhicaryāvatāra. The article identifies the manuscripts that were used for the previous editions of the text and also locates the newly discovered ones, thereby facilitating future work on a revised version of the critical edition of the Bodhicaryāvatāra. (The editors, preface, ix)
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Stender, Daniel. "Preliminary Survey of Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Bodhicaryāvatāra." In Vol. 2 of Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India, through Texts and Traditions; Contributions to Current Research in Indology, edited by Giovanni Ciotti, Alastair Gornall, and Paolo Visigalli, 147–70. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2014.
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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.