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	|header=Study the Core Texts
	|text=This curated selection represents essential texts for understanding the concept of ''bodhicitta'' within the Indian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. The resource serves as both a scholarly repository and pedagogical tool, with planned expansions scheduled for 2025 and 2026 to include additional critical texts and research materials. As of August 2025, this comprehensive resource presents extensive scholarship on Śāntideva's ''Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra'' and the ''Śikṣāsamuccaya'', featuring both contemporary research and classical texts in multiple languages. The collection prioritizes the ''Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra'' as the primary focus, with substantial coverage of the ''Śikṣāsamuccaya'' and supplementary materials on related works. Regular updates to the website will expand the coverage of the concept of bodhicitta with important texts such the ''Bhāvanākrama'' and ''Bodhisattvabhūmi'', and others listed below.
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			|text=One of the most famous Buddhist texts of all time. Written by the ancient Indian Buddhist scholar and adept Śāntideva.
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			|text=Śāntideva's only other major known text, ''A Compendium of Training'', is like a companion to the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' and deals extensively with the motivation and practice of the bodhisattva.
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			|header=''Bodhisattvabhūmi'' (རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པའི་ས་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས།)
			|text=Ārya Asaṅga’s ''Bodhisattvabhūmi'', or ''The Stages of a Bodhisattva'', is the Mahāyāna tradition’s most comprehensive manual on the practice and training of bodhisattvas. 
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			|text=A compendium of Mahāyāna theory and practice, intended for bodhisattvas, both monastic and lay, organized around the theme of bodhicitta. Traditionally ascribed to the great Nāgārjuna. 
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			|header=''Bhāvanākrama''  (བསྒོམ་པའི་རིམ་པ།)
			|text=Kamalaśīla's ''Stages of Meditation'' focuses on wisdom (''prajñā'') and sets forth the process of cultivating bodhicitta and then developing ''śamatha'' and ''vipaśyanā'' and progressing through the bodhisattva stages to buddhahood. 
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			|text=Atiśa Dīpaṃkara's ''The Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment'', emphasizing a gradual approach to training the bodhisattva, became a prototype for the genre of Tibetan religious literature known as ''lamrim'', or ''stages of the path''. 
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			|text=Consisting of concise teachings and meditation practices, the ''Blo sbyong don bdun ma'' gained widespread influence throughout Tibet, inspiring commentaries from scholars across various Buddhist traditions.  
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			|header=''Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva''  (རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།)
			|text=Tokmé Zangpo's essential reading for all bodhisattva's-to-be. 
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		<h2 class="pt-0 mt-0">Overviews of Śāntideva's Works</h2>
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		The ''Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra'' and the ''Śikṣāsamuccaya'' are Śāntideva's core texts for any would-be bodhisattva. While the ''Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra'' is one of the most popular of all Buddhist texts today, the ''Śikṣāsamuccaya'' is somewhat less well-known and deserving of further study.  
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				<h4>Bodhicaryāvatāra <br> <small>''In-Depth Chapter Overviews''</small></h4>
				<div class="text-article text-120 mb-4">This comprehensive resource provides a detailed, chapter-by-chapter analysis of Śāntideva's ''The Way of the Bodhisattva'' (''Bodhicaryāvatāra''), one of the most influential texts in Mahāyāna Buddhist literature. Each chapter features scholarly essays that examine Śāntideva's teachings through the lens of key Buddhist concepts, supported by extensive academic resources, relevant links, and multimedia content. The material is organized according to the traditional Tibetan framework of generating, protecting, and perfecting bodhicitta, offering students a structured approach to understanding this foundational work on the bodhisattva path.</div>
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						|text=The opening chapters of the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' focus on cultivating bodhicitta. Śāntideva presents this compassionate intention as the essential foundation of the bodhisattva path.
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						|text=In chapters 4-6, Śāntideva emphasizes that once this awakened heart of bodhicitta is cultivated, it must be protected with the same care one would guard a priceless jewel.
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						|text=These chapters reveal how diligence, meditative concentration, and wisdom work together to transform compassionate intention into the fully realized bodhicitta of a bodhisattva.
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                        |text=The ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' ends with a concluding prayer, in which Śāntideva makes a dedication for the benefit of others, for the benefit of oneself, and for the flourishing of the teachings.
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				<h4>Śikṣāsamuccaya <br> <small>''In-Depth Chapter Overviews''</small></h4>
				<div class="text-article text-120 mb-4">An extensive, in depth, chapter-by-chapter exploration of Śāntideva's ''Śikṣāsamuccaya'', The "Compendium of Training". There are twenty-seven stanzas in the root text, and each of the stanzas is elaborated upon in a prose commentary by the Śāntideva himself. Around 100 early Sanskrit texts are cited in support of the commentary, which makes it an important source for understanding how eight-century Indian Mahāyāna authors thought about sutra sources and provides amazing intertextual interconnections, a kind of window into the larger world of Mahāyāna source material. We present here one way that the Tibetan commentarial tradition organizes the nineteen chapters of the text into the topics of Giving, Protecting, Purifying, and Enhancing.</div>
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                        |text=Chapter 1 of ''The Compendium of Training'' discusses the first of four activities that make up the practice of a bodhisattva—giving one's body, possessions, and virtues to all sentient beings.
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    |header=The ''Sgom Lugs'' Tradition
	|text=The ''sgom lugs'' (meditation tradition) was a significant contemplative tradition in Tibetan Buddhism that developed a unique approach to studying and practicing the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'', Śāntideva's classic eighth-century text on the bodhisattva path.

The ''sgom lugs'' approach emphasized the meditative implementation of the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' rather than purely scholastic analysis. Its practitioners were known for integrating the text's teachings—particularly on ''bodhicitta'' (awakened mind), ''śamatha'' (calm abiding), and ''vipaśyanā'' (insight meditation)—directly into their contemplative practice.

This tradition was especially prominent in the 11th-13th centuries during the later spread of Buddhism in Tibet, with notable practitioners in the Kadam and early Kagyu lineages. The ''sgom lugs'' teachers developed distinctive meditation manuals and techniques for embodying the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra''<i>'</i>s core ethical and philosophical principles, especially those found in the patience, meditation, and wisdom chapters.

What distinguished the ''sgom lugs'' approach was its experiential focus—treating the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' not merely as a philosophical text to be analyzed, but as a practical guidebook for transformation through meditation and daily application.

This section traces the development of this tradition and the lives and works of the prominent teachers who upheld it.
	
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	|header=Living Traditions of Practice <br> <small><em>Patrul Rinpoche</em></small>
	|text=Patrul Rinpoche (1808-1887) stands as one of the most influential figures in the modern transmission of Śāntideva's ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'', breathing new life into this masterpiece of Mahāyāna Buddhism during a pivotal period in Tibetan religious history. Through his revolutionary pedagogical approach that made profound Buddhist philosophy accessible to ordinary practitioners, Patrul transformed the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' from a text of elite monastic study into a living practice guide for all levels of society. His teachings became essential reading in Buddhist communities worldwide, ensuring Śāntideva's timeless wisdom on the bodhisattva path would continue to illuminate practitioners across cultures for future generations.

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