Guide to Bodhisattva's Way of Life

Santideva; Santideva; Batchelor, Stephen

ISBN 10: 8185102597 / ISBN 13: 9788185102597

Editore: LTWA (edition 6th Revised edition), 1999

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• Titolo: Guide to Bodhisattva's Way of Life
• Editore: LTWA (edition 6th Revised edition)
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 8185102597
• ISBN 13: 9788185102597
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: 6th Revised edition.
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

A new and precise verse rendition of one of Mahayana Buddhism's finest poetic treatise concerning the bodhisattva's practice and training. The translation by Stephen Batchelor is based upon a commentary by the 14th century Tibetan saint Thogme Zangpo.

Informazioni sull?autore

The Chan Ssu Lun of the Chinese Madhyamaka school identifies two different individuals given the name "Shantideva": the founder of the Avaivartika Sangha in the 6th century, and a later Shantideva who studied at Nalanda in the 8th century who appears to be the source of the Tibetan biographies. Archaeological discoveries support this thesis.[1][2] Two Tibetan sources of the life of Shantideva are the historians Butön and Jetsün T ran tha. Recent scholarship has brought to light a short Sanskrit life of Shantideva in a 14th-century Nepalese manuscript. An accessible account that follows the Butön closely can be found in Kunzang Pelden, The Nectar of Manjushri's speech. Shantideva was born in the Saurastra (in modern Gujarat), the son of the King Kalyanavarman and he went by the name Shantivarman.