Bodhicaryāvatāraबोधिचर्यावतार
A guide to the life of a bodhisattva. 1 passage in the chapters come from it.
- What it is
- About 900 verses in 10 chapters
- Composed
- Early 8th century CE
- By
- Śāntideva, a monk at Nālandā
- References on this site
- Chapter.verse. The Sanskrit and Tibetan versions differ slightly in length and numbering.
“Entering the way of awakening”: a Mahāyāna guide for one who seeks awakening for the sake of all beings. Its sixth chapter, on patience, is one of the most read texts on anger. The verse quoted here (6.10) asks why one should be upset at what can be remedied, or at what cannot. It is still taught widely, above all in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Translations in print
- Kate Crosby and Andrew Skilton, The Bodhicaryāvatāra (Oxford World's Classics, 1995)
Names with marks such as ā, ṣ or ṛ are explained in how to read the names and terms.
The passage the chapters quote
- DocumentedUnit 2 · Emotions and Stress
Coping with stress and if there is a remedy
Read it in its chapter“If there is a remedy, what use is dismay? And if there is no remedy, what use is dismay?” यद्यस्त्येव प्रतीकारो दौर्मनस्येन तत्र किम् । अथ नास्ति प्रतीकारो दौर्मनस्येन तत्र किम् । yady asty eva pratīkāro daurmanasyena tatra kim, atha nāsti pratīkāro daurmanasyena tatra kim. གལ་ཏེ་བཅོས་སུ་ཡོད་ན་ནི། །དེ་ལ་མི་དགར་ཅི་ཞིག་ཡོད། །གལ་ཏེ་བཅོས་སུ་མེད་ན་ནི། །དེ་ལ་མི་དགའ་བྱས་ཅི་ཕན། ། gal te bcos su yod na ni, de la mi dgar ci zhig yod, gal te bcos su med na ni, de la mi dga' byas ci phan. Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra 6.10 (Sanskrit; Tibetan in the Derge Tengyur, Toh 3871)
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