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 ...

Khenpo Kunpal now recounts Śāntideva’s life story in seven amazing episodes [ngo mtshar ba’i gtam bdun], which are also mentioned in Butön’s history.[1]

These are:

  1. Pleasing his supreme meditation deity [lhag pa’i lha mnyes].
  2. His perfect display of activity at Nālandā [na lendra’i bkod pa phun tshogs].
  3. Preventing a war [rtsod pa bzlog].
  4. Taming those who held strange views [ya mtshan can btul ba].
  5. Taming the beggars [sprang po btul ba].
  6. Taming the king [rgyal po btul ba].
  7. Taming the tīrthikas [mu stegs can btul ba].

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

See History of Buddhism, page 161; and bu ston chos ’byung, page 166.

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