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Bodhicitta

Mind of Awakening

Wisdom and Compassion as a Way of Life

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་མཆོག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།།

མ་སྐྱེས་པ་རྣམས་སྐྱེ་གྱུར་ཅིག།

སྐྱེས་པ་ཉམས་པ་མེད་པར་ཡང་།།

གོང་ནས་གོང་དུ་འཕེལ་བར་ཤོག།

Welcome to the Bodhicitta website

The Doorways

Discover

What is bodhicitta and why should we learn about it? Discover the basics of bodhicitta.

Explore

Explore bodhicitta's associated stories, key concepts, texts, and people to gain understanding and engage in practice.

Study

Delve deeper into the study of bodhicitta's theory, practice, and traditions by reading the core texts.

Practice

Learn how to put bodhicitta into practice in order to bring the highest good – perfect enlightenment – to all sentient beings.

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Śāntideva

Begin your exploration with a study of Shantideva's life and works. Considered essential reading for Buddhists, they have influenced contemporary presentations of the concept profoundly even today.

meet the master

Reading Room

Pull up a chair and start reading here. This is the portal to the main texts presented on this website, along with our multi-lingual presentations and special comparative versions.

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The Verses

Explore the Bodhicaryāvatāra like never before, with a full unpacking, verse-by-verse, of Śāntideva's masterpiece in multiple languages, with many commentaries available.

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བྱང་སེམས་ཆོས་མཛོད།

དྲྭ་རྒྱ་འདིར་བྱང་སེམས་སྤྱི་དང་། བྱེ་བྲག་ཞི་བ་ལྷའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་བསླབ་གཏུས་དང་སྤྱོད་འཇུག་གཉིས་ལ་ཐོས་བསམ་སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་དང་ཞིབ་འཇུག་ལ་སྤྲོ་བ་རྣམས་བདེ་བླག་ཏུ་འཇུག་པའི་ཕྱིར། རྒྱ་གར་དང་རིས་མེད་བོད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་སོ་སོའི་མཁས་དབང་དག་གིས་མཛད་པའི་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་ཡིག་ཆ་ཐ་དག་གཅིག་ཏུ་བསྒྲིགས་ཡོད།

བྱང་སེམས་ཆོས་མཛོད།

Library

A curated library of books, articles, dissertations, sūtras, commentaries, Tibetan and Sanskrit publications, and multimedia resources on the topic of Bodhicitta and Śāntideva's works.

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Bibliography

The most complete bibliography of academic and related references on bodhicitta. Special emphasis has been given to works on Śāntideva's life and his texts.

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Timelines

Navigate historical milestones of bodhicitta as well as presentations of translations and commentaries on the Bodhicaryāvatāra, by also meeting their respective authors spanning almost two millennia.

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Site guide

Get help navigating the many layers of content on this website: from introductions to basic buddhist concepts to advanced textual explorations of Śāntideva's works.

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LIVE EVENT: Bodhicitta Website Launch

A live Dharma Chat event at Wisdom Publications Headquarters with Tsadra Foundation Featuring Karma Phuntsho, Thupten Jinpa, Wulstan Fletcher, and others.

26 April 2026

 

Bodhicitta: Wisdom and Compassion as a Way of Life

Bodhicitta: Wisdom and Compassion as a Way of Life is an immersive online course led by Lopen Karma Phuntsho that explores the "jewel-like" mind of awakening through its history, philosophy, and living practice. The curriculum guides students from the scriptural origins of bodhicitta to the direct realization of emptiness, offering practical training in bodhisattva vows and the path of "going toward bliss." Designed as an experiential journey, the course includes 11 HD video lessons, guided meditations, and a live Q&A to help participants embody compassion in their daily lives. Join the course here: https://wisdomexperience.org/bodhicitta-course/

29 May 2026

 

Bodhicitta Conference

Tsadra Foundation and Shechen Monastery will host special representatives from all major traditions to present and debate in the Tibetan language on Bodhicitta.

13-16 May 2026

 

Listening Room

In Development: A list of audio versions of articles in this website.

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