Bodhisattvacaryāvatāraṣaṭṭriṃśatpiṇḍārtha
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बोधिसत्त्वचर्यावतारषट्ट्रिंशत्पिण्डार्थ
Bodhisattvacaryāvatāraṣaṭṭriṃśatpiṇḍārtha
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་དོན་སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་དྲུག་བསྡུས་པ།
byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i don sum cu rtsa drug bsdus pa
The Concise Meaning of the Thirty-Six Points of (Śāntideva’s) "Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva" (84000)
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Description
The entire Bodhicaryāvatāra is summarized into eleven points, and the eleven points are explained further by dividing them into thirty-six points. Basically, it is a collection of the main verses from each chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra.
Type of Commentary: thirty-six key points
Length: 8
Length: 8
Reference
Suvarṇadvīpa Dharmakīrti (གསེར་གླིང་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་). Bodhisattvacaryāvatāraṣaṭṭriṃśatpiṇḍārtha [बोधिसत्त्वचर्यावतारषट्ट्रिंशत्पिण्डार्थ]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i don sum cu rtsa drug bsdus pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་དོན་སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་དྲུག་བསྡུས་པ།]. [The Concise Meaning of the Thirty-Six Points of (Śāntideva’s) "Entering into the Deeds of a Bodhisattva" (84000)]. Translated by Atiśa, Nag 'tsho lo tsA ba tshul khrims rgyal ba. Tengyur, RKTST 3223 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3223&typ=2.
Interconnections
1 Full translations
Two anthologies of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra attributed to Serlingpa (930–940 CE) are preserved in the Tibetan canon: the Bodhisattvacaryāvatārapiṇḍārtha (D3879) and its expanded version Bodhisattvacaryāvatāraṣaṭṭriṃśatpiṇḍārtha (D3878). Translated by Atiśa and Tsultrim Gyalwa, these works systematically reorganize Śāntideva's original text according to an eleven-point structure for practical application. The shorter anthology contains approximately thirty verses from all ten chapters, while the longer version expands to roughly eighty verses with additional emphasis on bodhicitta cultivation and ethical conduct. Both anthologies prioritize practical training over theoretical exposition, representing Serlingpa's pedagogical approach to making Śāntideva's teachings accessible for Buddhist mind training practice. This page presents translations of both texts.
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
This paper aims at presenting identifications of the stanzas quoted from the Bodhicaryāvatāra in Suvarṇadvīpa's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāraṣaṭtriṃśatpiṇḍārtha and Bodhisattvacaryāvatārapiṇḍārtha.
2 A topic of
This paper aims at presenting identifications of the stanzas quoted from the Bodhicaryāvatāra in Suvarṇadvīpa's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāraṣaṭtriṃśatpiṇḍārtha and Bodhisattvacaryāvatārapiṇḍārtha.
Two anthologies of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra attributed to Serlingpa (930–940 CE) are preserved in the Tibetan canon: the Bodhisattvacaryāvatārapiṇḍārtha (D3879) and its expanded version Bodhisattvacaryāvatāraṣaṭṭriṃśatpiṇḍārtha (D3878). Translated by Atiśa and Tsultrim Gyalwa, these works systematically reorganize Śāntideva's original text according to an eleven-point structure for practical application. The shorter anthology contains approximately thirty verses from all ten chapters, while the longer version expands to roughly eighty verses with additional emphasis on bodhicitta cultivation and ethical conduct. Both anthologies prioritize practical training over theoretical exposition, representing Serlingpa's pedagogical approach to making Śāntideva's teachings accessible for Buddhist mind training practice. This page presents translations of both texts.
