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Entering the Path of Enlightenment: The Bodhicaryāvatāra of the Buddhist Poet Śāntideva
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Description
Entering the Path of Enlightenment contains the first complete English translation of the Sanskrit Bodhicaryāvatāra. In this beautiful and moving classic of Mahāyāna Buddhism, Śāntideva, a monk at the famed Buddhist center of Nālānda in India, describes the Bodhisattva Vow—one of the major concepts of Buddhist belief.
In order to render the Bodhicaryāvatāra accessible to student and layman as well as specialist and scholar, Marion L. Matics divides the book into three parts: a guide which explains and interprets the Bodhicaryāvatāra and places it within the framework of the evolving history of Buddhist thought, the lucid translation itself, and appendices containing all the necessary tools for a thorough understanding of this celebrated work. (Source: back cover)
Citation
Matics, Marion L., trans. Entering the Path of Enlightenment: The Bodhicaryāvatāra of the Buddhist Poet Śāntideva. London: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1970. https://archive.org/details/enteringpathofenlightenmentbodhicharyatvaofsantidevamarionmaticsl._245_J/mode/2up.
Interconnections
1 Full translation of
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. The main subject of the text is bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment, and the path and practices of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (pāramitās). The text forms the basis of many contemporary discussions of Buddhist ethics and philosophy.
2 Reviews
Francis Cook's review of Entering the Path of Enlightenment, by Marion L. Matics, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion 40, no. 1 (1972): 122–24.
David Seyfort Ruegg's review of Entering the Path of Enlightenment, by Marion L. Matics, published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 97, no. 1 (1977), 88-89.
