Sacred Text
The Way of the Bodhisattva
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།
Shantideva
The masterpiece of Mahayana Buddhism, composed at Nalanda in the 8th century. From the benefits of bodhicitta through the profound wisdom of emptiness, Shantideva guides the practitioner through the complete bodhisattva path with unmatched clarity, logic, and devotion.
10 chapters4 parts14k wordsAll schools
Part 1
Generating Bodhicitta
1
The Benefits of Bodhicitta
1,369 wordsབྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་ཕན་ཡོན།
bodhicittameritprecious human birthrefuge+3 more
2
Confession
1,306 wordsསྡིག་པ་བཤགས་པ།
confessionseven-branch practicepurificationofferings+4 more
3
Taking Hold of Bodhicitta
1,184 wordsབྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་བཟུང་བ།
bodhicittabodhisattva vowtaking refugejoy+3 more
Part 2
Not Abandoning Bodhicitta
Part 3
The Six Perfections
6
Patience
1,389 wordsབཟོད་པ།
patienceangerforbearanceharm+4 more
7
Joyous Effort
1,634 wordsབརྩོན་འགྲུས།
joyous effortlazinessenthusiasmdetermination+3 more
8
Meditative Concentration
1,647 wordsབསམ་གཏན།
concentrationsolituderenunciationexchanging self for others+4 more
9
Wisdom
1,563 wordsཤེས་རབ།
wisdomemptinesstwo truthsMadhyamaka+4 more