Bodhicaryavatara: A Guide to the Buddhist Path to Awakening (Oxford World's Classics)
od Santideva z vydavateľstva Oxford University Press 1998
Bodhicaryavatara: A Guide to the Buddhist Path to Awakening (Oxford World's Classics)
od Santideva z vydavateľstva Oxford University Press 1998
Autor: | Santideva |
Vydavateľstvo: | Oxford University Press |
Rok vydania: | 1998 |
EAN: | 9780192837202 |
Počet strán: | 240 |
Typ tovaru: | Brožovaná väzba |
Viac o knihe Bodhicaryavatara: A Guide to the Buddhist Path to Awakening (Oxford World's Classics) (Santideva)
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 training among Mahayana Buddhists, especially in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the Bodhicaryavatara continues to be used as the basis for teaching by modern Buddhist teachers. This is a new translation from the original language, with detailed annotations explaining allusions and technical references. The Introduction sets Santideva´s work in context, and for the first time explain its structure.