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བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པའི་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i 'grel pa legs par bshad pa'i rgya mtsho
An Ocean of Good Explanation: A Commentary on Entering into the Conduct of the Bodhisattva
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Description

This is mainly a word commentary (tshig 'grel) with an elaborate topical outline (sa bcad). Occasionally, the author also mentions how early Indian commentators interpreted certain points or words differently. Type of Commentary: word commentary (tshig 'grel)
Length: 245
Tradition: Rime?
Quoted in the aligned translations
Reference
Thogs med bzang po (ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་). byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i 'grel pa legs par bshad pa'i rgya mtsho [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པའི་རྒྱ་མཚོ།]. [An Ocean of Good Explanation: A Commentary on Entering into the Conduct of the Bodhisattva].

Recensions

Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i 'grel pa legs par bshad pa'i rgya mtsho (An Ocean of Good Explanation: A Commentary on Entering into the Conduct of the Bodhisattva). Recension information:
Tibetan Thogs med bzang po. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པའི་རྒྱ་མཚོ། (Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i 'grel pa legs par bshad pa'i rgya mtsho).
  • རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཀྱི་སྤྱོད་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་ཆོས་སྐོར། (Rgyal sras kyi spyod la 'jug pa'i chos skor)བོད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ལག་གཅེས་བཏུས། ༡༡ Tibetan Classics Series 11. New Delhi: བོད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ལག་ཞིབ་དཔྱོད་ཁང་། Institute of Tibetan Classics, 2006. Buda by BDRC Logo.jpg
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  • Spyod 'jug gi rtsa 'grel. Buda by BDRC Logo.jpg
  • Spyod 'jug gi 'grel pa legs par bshad pa'i rgya mtsho. Buda by BDRC Logo.jpg
  • In Bka' gdams gsung 'bum phyogs bsgrigs thengs gsum pa, Vol. 65: 339-463. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2009. Buda by BDRC Logo.jpg
  • In 'Phags yul rgyan drug mchog gnyis kyi zhal lung, Vol. 71: 1-193. Lhasa: Bod ljongs bod yig dpe rnying dpe skrun khang, 2015. Buda by BDRC Logo.jpg
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1 Full translations
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Books2026About this item
A selection of key texts on the "Bodhisattva Ideal", collected, edited, and arranged by Thupten Jinpa. The collection includes an important commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra (སྤྱོད་འཇུག་འགྲེལ་པ་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པའི་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, translated by Julia Stenzel) and the famous The Thirty Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།) by Tokmé Zangpo; Notes on the Śikṣāsamuccaya (བསླབ་བཏུས་ཟིན་བྲིས།) by Tsongkhapa; and seven other texts. The Tibetan text was edited and published in 2006 as in the Tibetan Classics Series number 11: bod kyi gtsug lag gces btus. Translation work began in 2021 with funding from Tsadra Foundation, with publication in 2026.

“This remarkable book is a carefully curated collection of the very best Tibetan writing on the awakening mind, the bodhisattva path, and Mahayana ethics. Beautifully translated with a very useful introduction to the literature, this latest volume of the Library of Tibetan Classics will be essential reading for anyone interested in the theory and practice of the bodhisattva ideal.”

—José Ignacio Cabezón, Dalai Lama Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara
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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.
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Books2012About this item
Dharma teaching by Khenpo Sodargye on Gyalse Tokme Zangpo's The Commentary on a Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life – The Ocean of Good Explanation (Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i 'grel pa legs par bshad pa'i rgya mtsho).
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Books1985About this item
Translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra based upon the Tibetan commentary Ocean of Good Explanation by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo and as explained by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
A Guide to the Bodhisattva s Way of Life (1999)-front.jpg
Books1999About this item
Translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra based upon the Tibetan commentary Ocean of Good Explanation by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo and as explained by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
1 Teachings
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An oral teaching on Tokme Zangpo's commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra - lesson 1, by Khenpo Sodargye
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A Great Commentary on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life Vol. 1-front.jpg
Books2012About this item
Dharma teaching by Khenpo Sodargye on Gyalse Tokme Zangpo's The Commentary on a Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life – The Ocean of Good Explanation (Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i 'grel pa legs par bshad pa'i rgya mtsho).
8 A topic of
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Books2012About this item
Dharma teaching by Khenpo Sodargye on Gyalse Tokme Zangpo's The Commentary on a Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life – The Ocean of Good Explanation (Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i 'grel pa legs par bshad pa'i rgya mtsho).
A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life-front.jpg
Books1985About this item
Translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra based upon the Tibetan commentary Ocean of Good Explanation by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo and as explained by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
A Guide to the Bodhisattva s Way of Life (1999)-front.jpg
Books1999About this item
Translation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra based upon the Tibetan commentary Ocean of Good Explanation by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo and as explained by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
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Classical WorksAbout this item
This is Ngulchu Tokme Zangpo's Spyod 'jug gi 'grel pa legs bshad rgya mtsho, reintroduced with the relevant root verses and the topical outlines inserted directly into the commentary, thereby making it easy to remember and conveniently accessible for the students.
Khenpo Sodargye.jpg
MultimediaAbout this item
An oral teaching on Tokme Zangpo's commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra - lesson 1, by Khenpo Sodargye
The Bodhisattva Ideal (LOTC)-front.jpg
Books2026About this item
A selection of key texts on the "Bodhisattva Ideal", collected, edited, and arranged by Thupten Jinpa. The collection includes an important commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra (སྤྱོད་འཇུག་འགྲེལ་པ་ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པའི་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, translated by Julia Stenzel) and the famous The Thirty Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།) by Tokmé Zangpo; Notes on the Śikṣāsamuccaya (བསླབ་བཏུས་ཟིན་བྲིས།) by Tsongkhapa; and seven other texts. The Tibetan text was edited and published in 2006 as in the Tibetan Classics Series number 11: bod kyi gtsug lag gces btus. Translation work began in 2021 with funding from Tsadra Foundation, with publication in 2026.

“This remarkable book is a carefully curated collection of the very best Tibetan writing on the awakening mind, the bodhisattva path, and Mahayana ethics. Beautifully translated with a very useful introduction to the literature, this latest volume of the Library of Tibetan Classics will be essential reading for anyone interested in the theory and practice of the bodhisattva ideal.”

—José Ignacio Cabezón, Dalai Lama Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara