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The Bodhicaryavatara
Santideva
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Description for The Bodhicaryavatara
Paperback. Editor(s): Williams, Professor Paul. Translator(s): Crosby, Kate; Skilton, Andrew. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRE; HRLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Written in India in the early eighth century AD, Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara became one of the most popular accounts of the Buddhist's spiritual path. The Bodhicaryavatara takes as its subject the profound desire to become a Buddha and save all beings from suffering. The person who enacts such a desire is a Bodhisattva. Santideva not only sets out what the Bodhisattva must do and become, he also invokes the intense feelings of aspiration which underlie such a commitment, using language which has inspired Buddhists in their religious life from his time to the present. Important as a manual of ... Read more
Written in India in the early eighth century AD, Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara became one of the most popular accounts of the Buddhist's spiritual path. The Bodhicaryavatara takes as its subject the profound desire to become a Buddha and save all beings from suffering. The person who enacts such a desire is a Bodhisattva. Santideva not only sets out what the Bodhisattva must do and become, he also invokes the intense feelings of aspiration which underlie such a commitment, using language which has inspired Buddhists in their religious life from his time to the present. Important as a manual of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
182g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199540433
SKU
V9780199540433
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About Santideva
Kate Crosby is Tutor in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Pali at Oxford University. Andrew Skilton a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Paul Williams is Codirector of the Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Bristol.
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