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Multilingual Editions of Root Verses & Commentaries

 

Bodhicaryāvatāra

You will find here the full list of verses of the Bodhicaryāvatāra in Tibetan and from Padmakara's 2006 english translation and links to various versions as they become available.

Root Verses

 

The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech

Khenpo Kunzang Palden's commentary to the Bodhicaryāvatāra translated by the Padmakara Translation Group. In this commentary, Kunzang Pelden has compiled the pith instructions of his teacher Patrul Rinpoche, the celebrated author of The Words of My Perfect Teacher.

Commentary

 

A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas

This volume contains an English translation of a famous commentary by the great Sakya scholar Sazang Mati Panchen, which provides both a concise overview of Buddhist philosophy, and a clear verse-by-verse commentary.

Commentary

 

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Cette nouvelle traduction de La Marche vers l'Éveil de Shântideva (VIIIe-IXe siècles) a été réalisée à partir du tibétain d'après l'interprétation et les explications détaillées du khenpo Kunzang Palden, disciple de Patrul Rinpoché et héritier d'une tradition millénaire de commentaire de ce texte.

Root Verses (French)

Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Bodhicaryāvatāra [बोधिचर्यावतार]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [The Way of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3216 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3216&typ=2.

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib ས་སྐྱ་  

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Śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt श्रावक  Tib ཉན་ཐོས།  Ch 聲聞  

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