Bodhisattvacaryāvatārabhāṣya
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बोधिसत्त्वचर्यावतारभाष्य
Bodhisattvacaryāvatārabhāṣya
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་བཤད་པ།
byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i bshad pa
Explanation of Entering into the Conduct of the Bodhisattva
Text
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Description
This is a commentary on a pith instruction, supposedly given to Lopön Lodrö Mizepa (Slob dpon blo gros mi zad pa) by Mañjuśrī. In this instruction, the wheel of a chariot is used as an analogy to demonstrate how a bodhisattva makes progress in the practice of bodhicitta. The commentary explains, using the various components of the wheel of a chariot and their functions as analogies, how bodhicitta and the qualities of the ten bhūmis and five paths develop gradually through the practice of the ten chapters of the Bodhicaryāvatāra.
Type of Commentary: practice instruction
Length: 22
Length: 22
Reference
Atiśa. Bodhisattvacaryāvatārabhāṣya [बोधिसत्त्वचर्यावतारभाष्य]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i bshad pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་བཤད་པ།]. [Explanation of Entering into the Conduct of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3936 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3936&typ=2.
Interconnections
All 11Articles 9Classical Works 2
1 Recensions
Kaie Mochizuki presents the Wylie transcription of Atiśa's commentary to the Bodhicaryāvatāra, the Bodhisattvacaryāvatārabhāṣya. Includes German introduction.
1 Full translations
Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna's (982–1054) The Wheel-Like Path is a hermeneutical commentary interpreting Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra through a complete graduated awakening path. The text systematically correlates the ten chapters with ten mental attitudes and maps them onto bodhisattva grounds using an extended wheel metaphor. It elaborates nineteen "turns" covering progression from path accumulation to buddhahood, addressing misconceptions about path-result separation, ground demarcation, and affliction antidotes. Historically significant for Atiśa's systematization of Indian Mahāyāna teachings during Tibet's later diffusion period, the text demonstrates his synthesis of scholastic precision with contemplative instruction. Its layered nature, including editorial interpolations, illustrates Tibetan textual transmission practices where commentaries become objects of subsequent annotation by scholar-practitioners preserving foundational teachings.
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 Contains members
Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna's (982–1054) The Wheel-Like Path is a hermeneutical commentary interpreting Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra through a complete graduated awakening path. The text systematically correlates the ten chapters with ten mental attitudes and maps them onto bodhisattva grounds using an extended wheel metaphor. It elaborates nineteen "turns" covering progression from path accumulation to buddhahood, addressing misconceptions about path-result separation, ground demarcation, and affliction antidotes. Historically significant for Atiśa's systematization of Indian Mahāyāna teachings during Tibet's later diffusion period, the text demonstrates his synthesis of scholastic precision with contemplative instruction. Its layered nature, including editorial interpolations, illustrates Tibetan textual transmission practices where commentaries become objects of subsequent annotation by scholar-practitioners preserving foundational teachings.
3 Scholarship
Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna's (982-1054) Bodhisattvacaryāvatārabhāṣya comprises two distinct commentaries that transform Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra from an ethical manual into a complete system of Buddhist practice. Drawing on his extensive training under Serlingpa and other masters, Atiśa presents an innovative framework using the metaphor of a scythed chariot wheel to organize the text's teachings according to practitioners' capacities: eleven points for middling practitioners, three for superior, and thirty-six for lesser capacity students. His systematic correlation of the ten chapters with the ten bodhisattva bhūmis demonstrates how the same text operates at multiple levels of realization, serving both beginning practitioners and advanced bodhisattvas. The commentary's Nineteen Revolutions of the Wheel-like Path reveals how the Bodhicaryāvatāra functions as a complete method across all stages from the path of accumulation through buddhahood. This interpretive framework established the Bodhicaryāvatāra as one of the foundational texts of the early Kadam tradition and demonstrated its sufficiency as a vehicle for supreme awakening in Tibetan Buddhism.
This Japanese publication by Kaie Mochizuki examines the commentary by Atiśa on the Bodhicaryāvatāra, the Bodhisattvacaryāvatārabhāṣya.
Kaie Mochizuki presents the Wylie transcription of Atiśa's commentary to the Bodhicaryāvatāra, the Bodhisattvacaryāvatārabhāṣya. Includes German introduction.
4 A topic of
Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna's (982-1054) Bodhisattvacaryāvatārabhāṣya comprises two distinct commentaries that transform Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra from an ethical manual into a complete system of Buddhist practice. Drawing on his extensive training under Serlingpa and other masters, Atiśa presents an innovative framework using the metaphor of a scythed chariot wheel to organize the text's teachings according to practitioners' capacities: eleven points for middling practitioners, three for superior, and thirty-six for lesser capacity students. His systematic correlation of the ten chapters with the ten bodhisattva bhūmis demonstrates how the same text operates at multiple levels of realization, serving both beginning practitioners and advanced bodhisattvas. The commentary's Nineteen Revolutions of the Wheel-like Path reveals how the Bodhicaryāvatāra functions as a complete method across all stages from the path of accumulation through buddhahood. This interpretive framework established the Bodhicaryāvatāra as one of the foundational texts of the early Kadam tradition and demonstrated its sufficiency as a vehicle for supreme awakening in Tibetan Buddhism.
This Japanese publication by Kaie Mochizuki examines the commentary by Atiśa on the Bodhicaryāvatāra, the Bodhisattvacaryāvatārabhāṣya.
Atiśa Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna's (982–1054) The Wheel-Like Path is a hermeneutical commentary interpreting Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra through a complete graduated awakening path. The text systematically correlates the ten chapters with ten mental attitudes and maps them onto bodhisattva grounds using an extended wheel metaphor. It elaborates nineteen "turns" covering progression from path accumulation to buddhahood, addressing misconceptions about path-result separation, ground demarcation, and affliction antidotes. Historically significant for Atiśa's systematization of Indian Mahāyāna teachings during Tibet's later diffusion period, the text demonstrates his synthesis of scholastic precision with contemplative instruction. Its layered nature, including editorial interpolations, illustrates Tibetan textual transmission practices where commentaries become objects of subsequent annotation by scholar-practitioners preserving foundational teachings.
Kaie Mochizuki presents the Wylie transcription of Atiśa's commentary to the Bodhicaryāvatāra, the Bodhisattvacaryāvatārabhāṣya. Includes German introduction.
