Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravivṛtipañjika
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बोधिसत्त्वचर्यावतारविवृत्तिपञ्जिका
Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravivṛtipañjika
Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravivṛttipañjika
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པའི་དཀའ་འགྲེལ།
byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i rnam par bshad pa'i dka' 'grel
A Commentary on the Difficult Points Explaining (Śāntideva’s) "Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva" (84000)
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Description
This commentary is an explanation of meaning (don 'grel), written with the help of the Śikṣāsamuccaya. It begins with an explanation of Nāgārjuna's verses of homage to the Buddha in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. The second and third chapters are merged into one in this commentary. Therefore, there are only nine chapters in total. The eighth chapter is on wisdom instead of the ninth, and the ninth chapter is on dedication. Some chapters are explained quite elaborately and some are summarized. The Dedication Chapter is mentioned, but there is no commentary on it, the reason being that it is easy to understand.
Type of Commentary: summary, with comments on difficult points
Length: 122
Length: 122
Reference
Kṛṣṇapaṇḍita. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravivṛttipañjika [बोधिसत्त्वचर्यावतारविवृत्तिपञ्जिका]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i rnam par bshad pa'i dka' 'grel [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པའི་དཀའ་འགྲེལ།]. [A Commentary on the Difficult Points Explaining (Śāntideva’s) "Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva" (84000)]. Translated by Chos kyi shes rab. Tengyur, RKTST 3218 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3218&typ=2.
Interconnections
1 Classical commentary of
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.
1 Scholarship
Japanese publication by Akira Saito on Butön Rinchen Drup and Prajñākaramati's Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā, published in the Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies.
