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There are two different Mahāyāna traditions for the ritual of administering and taking the bodhisattva vow. One is the ritual adopted in the Profound View tradition coming down from Nāgārjuna and his followers, and the other is the ritual passed down in the Vast Praxis tradition from Maitreya, Asaṅga, and their followers. While the two traditions share the overall framework of the oath-taking ritual, the liturgies and fine points of procedures vary between them. Today, verses from the second and third chapter of Śāntideva's ''Way of the Bodhisattva'' are used commonly as the standard liturgy for the bodhisattva vow ritual in the Profound View tradition. This procedure is based on what was practiced in the old Kadam tradition and later promoted by Patrul Rinpoche. | There are two different Mahāyāna traditions for the ritual of administering and taking the bodhisattva vow. One is the ritual adopted in the Profound View tradition coming down from Nāgārjuna and his followers, and the other is the ritual passed down in the Vast Praxis tradition from Maitreya, Asaṅga, and their followers. While the two traditions share the overall framework of the oath-taking ritual, the liturgies and fine points of procedures vary between them. Today, verses from the second and third chapter of Śāntideva's ''Way of the Bodhisattva'' are used commonly as the standard liturgy for the bodhisattva vow ritual in the Profound View tradition. This procedure is based on what was practiced in the old Kadam tradition and later promoted by Patrul Rinpoche. | ||
The Vast Praxis tradition uses a different set of recitations in prose to take the vow of aspiring bodhicitta and a set of questions and answers for the engaged bodhicitta vow as passed down from Atiśa. Kongtrul Lodoe Taye presents detailed liturgies and explanations for both traditions in the third volume of his ''Treasury of Precious Instructions''(''Gdams ngag rin po che'i mdzod'').<ref>(Provide links to Kongtruls's texts here and Engle and Jinpa's translation).</ref> | The Vast Praxis tradition uses a different set of recitations in prose to take the vow of aspiring bodhicitta and a set of questions and answers for the engaged bodhicitta vow as passed down from Atiśa. Kongtrul Lodoe Taye presents detailed liturgies and explanations for both traditions in the third volume of his ''Treasury of Precious Instructions'' (''Gdams ngag rin po che'i mdzod'').<ref>(Provide links to Kongtruls's texts here and Engle and Jinpa's translation).</ref> | ||
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