A short ritual for giving rise to bodhicitta attributed to Nāgārjuna, though it is only extant in Tibetan translation. Nevertheless, this attribution would likely make it the earliest known liturgical work to outline the bestowal of the bodhisattva vow.
| Citation | Nāgārjuna (ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་). Bodhicittotpādavidhi [बोधिचित्तोत्पादविधि]. byang chub tu sems bskyed pa'i cho ga [བྱང་ཆུབ་ཏུ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པའི་ཆོ་ག།]. [A Ritual for the Generation of Bodhicitta (84000)]. Translated by Surendrabodhi, Ye shes sde. Tengyur, RKTST 3307 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3307&typ=2. |
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| Author | Nāgārjuna |