Bodhisattvacharyavatara
by Andreas Kretschmar | 246,740 words
The English translation of the Bodhisattvacharyavatara (“entering the conduct of the bodhisattvas”), a Sanskrit text with Tibetan commentary. This book explains the bodhisattva concept and gives guidance to the Buddhist practitioner following the Mahāyāna path towards the attainment of enlightenment. The text was written in Sanskrit by Shantideva ...
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A few of the learned paṇḍitas in attendance later wrote down what they had heard, arriving at different versions of the Bodhisattva-caryāvatāra. The Kashmiri paṇḍitas are said to have compiled a version with seven hundred stanzas in nine chapters, while the paṇḍitas from the Central Land produced a version of one thousand stanzas in ten chapters. These significant differences led to many doubts among the scholars.