Shantideva · Theology
What the <em>Bodhicaryavatara</em> - the ‘Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ - actually is: a work of some nine hundred verses in which a Nalanda monk turns the whole path of compassion and wisdom into a single sustained poem, addressed first of all to himself.
You learned that the Bodhicaryavatara is a ten-chapter poem of about nine hundred verses, composed by the monk Shantideva at Nalanda in the eighth century, that lays out the bodhisattva path as a practical, first-person manual rather than an argumentative treatise. Explain what kind of book it is and why its form matt…
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