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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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|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=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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|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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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.
Śikṣāsamuccaya (བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ།)
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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Bodhisattvabhūmi (རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པའི་ས་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས།)
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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Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།)
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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Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།)
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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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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