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|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.
|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 2026 to include additional critical texts and research materials. 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.
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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''.  
|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.   
|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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|text=Tokmé Zangpo's essential reading for all bodhisattva's-to-be.  
|text=Tokme Zangpo's ''Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva'', written during a fourteenth-century retreat, transforms complex Mahāyāna philosophy into accessible instructions for handling life's challenges. Essential reading for all bodhisattva's-to-be.
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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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<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=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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This section traces the development of this tradition and the lives and works of the prominent teachers who upheld it.
|text=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.
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|text=In Sanskrit, "Compendium of Training," a work by the eighth-century Indian Mahāyāna master Śāntideva. It consists of twenty-seven stanzas on the motivation and practice of the bodhisattva, including bodhicitta, the six perfections (''pāramitā''s), the worship of buddhas and bodhisattvas, the benefits of renunciation, and the peace derived from the knowledge of emptiness (''śūnyatā''). The topic of each of the stanzas receives elaboration in the form of a prose commentary by the author as well as in illustrative passages, often quite extensive, drawn from a wide variety of Mahāyāna sūtras.
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|text=The ''Bodhicittavivaraṇa'', or "Exposition of the Mind of Enlightenment," consists of 112 stanzas, preceded by a brief section in prose. It is essentially a compendium of Mahāyāna theory and practice, intended for bodhisattvas, both monastic and lay, organized around the theme of bodhicitta, both in its conventional aspect (''saṃvṛtibodhicitta'') as the aspiration to buddhahood out of compassion for all sentient beings, and in its ultimate aspect (''paramārthabodhicitta'') as the insight into emptiness (''śūnyatā'').
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|text=The ''Bhāvanākrama'', or "Stages of Meditation," is the title of three separate but related works by the late eighth-century Indian master Kamalaśīla. The three texts set forth the process for the potential bodhisattva to cultivate bodhicitta and then develop ''śamatha'' (calm abiding) and ''vipaśyanā'' (special insight) and progress through the bodhisattva stages (''bhūmi'') to buddhahood. The three texts are widely cited in later Tibetan Buddhist literature, especially on the process for developing ''śamatha'' and ''vipaśyanā''.
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Detailed discussions and research on bodhicitta and Śāntideva's works


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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 2026 to include additional critical texts and research materials. 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.

 
Bodhicaryāvatāra (བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།)
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.
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Śikṣāsamuccaya (བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ།)
In Sanskrit, "Compendium of Training," a work by the eighth-century Indian Mahāyāna master Śāntideva. It consists of twenty-seven stanzas on the motivation and practice of the bodhisattva, including bodhicitta, the six perfections (pāramitās), the worship of buddhas and bodhisattvas, the benefits of renunciation, and the peace derived from the knowledge of emptiness (śūnyatā). The topic of each of the stanzas receives elaboration in the form of a prose commentary by the author as well as in illustrative passages, often quite extensive, drawn from a wide variety of Mahāyāna sūtras.
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Bodhisattvabhūmi (རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པའི་ས་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས།)
Ārya Asaṅga's Bodhisattvabhūmi, or The Stages of a Bodhisattva, stands as one of the most comprehensive and systematic expositions of the Mahāyāna Buddhist path from classical India. Formally the fifteenth section of the massive Yogācārabhūmi corpus, this foundational treatise provides an encyclopedic manual detailing the entire spiritual trajectory of a bodhisattva—from the initial arising of the "mind of awakening" (bodhicitta) to the ultimate attainment of perfect buddhahood.
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Bodhicittavivaraṇa (བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།)
The Bodhicittavivaraṇa, or "Exposition of the Mind of Enlightenment," consists of 112 stanzas, preceded by a brief section in prose. It is essentially a compendium of Mahāyāna theory and practice, intended for bodhisattvas, both monastic and lay, organized around the theme of bodhicitta, both in its conventional aspect (saṃvṛtibodhicitta) as the aspiration to buddhahood out of compassion for all sentient beings, and in its ultimate aspect (paramārthabodhicitta) as the insight into emptiness (śūnyatā).
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Bhāvanākrama (བསྒོམ་པའི་རིམ་པ།)
The Bhāvanākrama, or "Stages of Meditation," is the title of three separate but related works by the late eighth-century Indian master Kamalaśīla. The three texts set forth the process for the potential bodhisattva to cultivate bodhicitta and then develop śamatha (calm abiding) and vipaśyanā (special insight) and progress through the bodhisattva stages (bhūmi) to buddhahood. The three texts are widely cited in later Tibetan Buddhist literature, especially on the process for developing śamatha and vipaśyanā.
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Bodhipathapradīpa (བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མ།)
The Bodhipathapradīpa, or "Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment," is a work composed by the Indian scholar Atiśa Dīpamkaraśrījñāna shortly after he arrived in Tibet in 1042. Tibetan histories often note that Atiśa wrote this text in order to clarify problematic points of Buddhist practice, especially tantra, which were thought to have degenerated and become distorted, and to show that tantra did not render basic Buddhist practice irrelevant. The Bodhipathapradīpa emphasizes a gradual training in the practices of the Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna.
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Seven Points of Mind Training (བློ་སྦྱོང་དོན་བདུན་མ།)
The Seven Points of Mind Training (Lojong Döndünma) is an influential Tibetan work in the mind training (blo sbyong) genre. The work was composed by the Kadam scholar Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, based on the tradition of generating bodhicitta known as "mind training" transmitted by the Bengali master Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna. It also follows the system laid out previously by Langri Tangpa in his Eight Verses on Mind Training.
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Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།)
Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva is an important lojong text by Gyalsé Tokmé Zangpo. In thirty-seven verses, it gives instructions on how to follow the bodhisattva path. Kyabjé Trulshik Rinpoche has said that The Eight Verses of Training the Mind represents the short version of lojong, The Thirty-Seven Practices is the medium, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra is the extensive version. Written during a fourteenth-century retreat, the text transforms complex Mahāyāna philosophy into accessible instructions for handling life's challenges.
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Dive into the ultimate in bodhicitta resources—an unprecedented digital collection spanning ancient sūtras to modern scholarship. Find everything from classical commentaries to cutting-edge research, all connected through detailed cross-references that reveal surprising links across traditions and time periods. Browse author profiles featuring the scholars and masters who've shaped our understanding of bodhicitta. Whether you're a practitioner, researcher, or simply curious, this is your gateway to centuries of wisdom on the mind of awakening—all in one place for the first time.
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Immerse yourself in the world of bodhicitta! Explore the most extensive bibliography ever compiled on the topic, navigate complex concepts with our comprehensive glossary of key terms, trace the rich interpretive tradition through an interactive timeline of Bodhicaryāvatāra commentaries spanning over a millennium, and discover connections you never knew existed with our powerful advanced search tool. These resources will illuminate your journey into the heart of the bodhisattva path in exciting new ways!

 
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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Śikṣāsamuccaya [शिक्षासमुच्चय]. bslab pa kun las btus pa [བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ།]. [The Compendium of Training]. Tengyur, RKTST 3281 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3281&typ=2.

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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.

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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.

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Śikṣāsamuccaya [शिक्षासमुच्चय]. bslab pa kun las btus pa [བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ།]. [The Compendium of Training]. Tengyur, RKTST 3281 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3281&typ=2.

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Pāramitā - The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, aspirations, power, and pristine wisdom are added to them to make ten perfections. Skt पारमिता  Tib ཕར་ཕྱིན།;ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།  Ch 波羅蜜  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Saṃvṛtibodhicitta - Relative bodhicitta is the aspirational wish to attain the fully-enlightened state of a buddha. It aspires both to alleviate the suffering of all beings, and therefore to attain buddhahood in order to spontaneously and effortlessly act for the welfare of all beings Skt संवृतिबोधित्त  Tib ཀུན་རྫོབ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་  Ch 世俗菩提心  

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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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Paramārthabodhicitta - Skt परमार्थबोधिचित्त  Tib དོན་དམ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་  Ch 勝義菩提心  

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Bhūmi - A plateau of spiritual development. Skt भूमि  Tib ས་  

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Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (slob dpon chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes). Bodhipathapradīpa [बोधिपथप्रदीप]. byang chub lam gyi sgron ma [བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མ།]. [A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]. Tengyur, RKTST 3288 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3288&typ=2.

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Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (slob dpon chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes). Bodhipathapradīpa [बोधिपथप्रदीप]. byang chub lam gyi sgron ma [བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མ།]. [A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment]. Tengyur, RKTST 3288 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3288&typ=2.

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Tantra - Tantra, when juxtaposed with Sūtra, generally refers to the scriptures and texts which discuss esoteric topics. While the term is used to refer to texts on other topics, it is mostly used to refer to the genre of scriptures and texts on themes and topics associated with Vajrayāna Buddhism. Skt तन्त्र  Tib རྒྱུད།  Ch 密宗  

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Vajrayāna - The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras. Skt वज्रयान  Tib རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།  Ch 金剛乘  

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Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib བཀའ་གདམས་  

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Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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