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Shantideva was an Indian Buddhist while Buddhism still flourished in India. His great work, the Bodhicharyavatara , or "Entrance to the Path of Awakening," became a major text of Tibetan Buddhism long after it went out of circulation in its homeland. It is a handbook on how to realize the nature of existence and of compassion that arises from such realization. The Dalai Lama said of it, "If I have any understanding of compassion and the practice of the Bodhisattva path, it is entirely on the basis of this text that I possess it." Like the Book of Proverbs , the Bodhicharyavatara is a timeless work of wisdom, the longevity of which is due to the quality of its verse as much as to its wisdom. For the first time, an attempt has been made to recover that poetic immediacy by rendering the text in iambic lines. Regard your body as a vessel,A simple boat for going here and there.Make of it a wish-fulfilling gemTo bring about the benefit of beings.With this translation, gleaming in its clarity, a Buddhist classic becomes an English classic. Worthy of recitation and committing to memory, Shantideva's words on such topics as doing good, reading sutras, guarding the mind, keeping good company, and on the nature of the mind and reality can take on a life of their own, to grow and blossom in a new native tongue. The text booms, like the voice of a Shakespearean actor, as if it were not the bodhisattva but the book itself that And now as long as space endures,As long as there are beings to be found,May I continue likewise to remainTo drive away the sorrows of the world.--Brian Bruya
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Entering the Path of Enlightenment: The Bodhicaryavatara of the Buddhist Poet Santideva
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [Interesting provenance, previously owned by Dr. Owsei Temkin.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Jacket clipped. Bookplate of Temkin on verso. Clean, unmarked pages. 318 pages ; 22 cm. "In this beautiful and moving classic of Mahayana Buddhism, Santideva, a monk living in Nalanda in the early eighth century A.D., described the Bodhisattva Vow, the promise of heroic beings to strive for Nirvana, but to postpone full entrance into the Realm of the Absolute until every other sentient creature also attains the bliss of Enlightenment." "Owsei Temkin was a director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Temkin was known as one of the world's foremost experts on the interaction of medicine and culture throughout history. He published hundreds of articles and a dozen books on the history of medicine, including the history and philosophy of Greco-Arabic medicine. His book, The Falling Sickness, a study of views on epilepsy through the ages, has achieved wide renown. Temkin received the Welch Medal and the Sarton Prize and was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences." - Johns Hopkins Medical Institute. Seller Inventory # 2410180008