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बोधिचर्यावतार
Bodhicaryāvatāra
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།
byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa
The Way of the Bodhisattva
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Description
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.
Citation
Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Bodhicaryāvatāra [बोधिचर्यावतार]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [The Way of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3216 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3216&typ=2.
| Number | 3216 |
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| Canon | mdo |
| Sanskrit | bodhicaryāvatāra (D) |
| Alternate Titles | byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa;spyod 'jug |
| Alternate Titles - Sanskrit | bodhisattvacaryāvatāra |
| Author | Śāntideva |
| Author (Tibetan) | slob dpon shan+ta de ba |
| Translator | zhu chen gyi lo tsA ba ban+de dpal brtsegs;zhu chen gyi lo tsA ba ban+de rin chen bzang po;shAkya blo gros |
| Translator Pandita | rgya gar gyi mkhan po sarba dz+nyA de ba;rgya gar gyi mkhan po d+harma shrI b+ha dra |
| Colophon | byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa slob dpon shan+ta de bas mdzad pa rdzogs so |
| Title from Colophon | byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa |











