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|header=''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' (བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།) | |header=''Bodhicaryāvatāra'' (བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།) | ||
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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. | |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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|header=''Śikṣāsamuccaya'' (བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ།) | |header=''Śikṣāsamuccaya'' (བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ།) | ||
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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. | |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།) | |header=''Bodhisattvabhūmi'' (རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པའི་ས་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས།) | ||
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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. | |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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|header=''Bodhicittavivaraṇa'' (བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།) | |header=''Bodhicittavivaraṇa'' (བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།) | ||
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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. | |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།) | |header=''Bhāvanākrama'' (བསྒོམ་པའི་རིམ་པ།) | ||
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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. | |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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|header=''Bodhipathapradīpa'' (བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མ།) | |header=''Bodhipathapradīpa'' (བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མ།) | ||
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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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|header=''Seven Points of Mind Training'' (བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ།) | |header=''Seven Points of Mind Training'' (བློ་སྦྱོངས་དོན་བདུན་མ།) | ||
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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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|header=''Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva'' (རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།) | |header=''Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva'' (རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།) | ||
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|text=Tokmé Zangpo's essential reading for all bodhisattva's-to-be. | |text=Tokmé Zangpo's essential reading for all bodhisattva's-to-be. | ||
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Revision as of 18:24, 27 October 2025
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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 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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