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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.385
EAN num: 9781590304396
ISBN number: 159030439X
Label: Shambhala
Manufacturer: Shambhala
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 464
Printing Date: November 13, 2007
Publishing house: Shambhala
Release Date: November 13, 2007
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The Bodhicharyavatara, or Way of the Bodhisattva, composed by the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva, has occupied an important place in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition almost from its inception. One of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhism, it describes the path of the bodhisattvas, those who vow to become enlightened in order to help all beings awaken into the state of freedom and fulfillment. It is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment through generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience.
Patrul Rinpoche, the celebrated nineteenth-century master and author of The Words of My Perfect Teacher, devoted his whole life to the practice and teachings of the Bodhicharyavatara. Although he never composed an extensive commentary on this great work, it is said that, when traveling all over the east of Tibet, he expounded it more than one hundred times, sometimes in detailed courses lasting many months. Kunzang Pelden spent most of his early life with Patrul Rinpoche and was one of his close disciples. This commentary is a compilation of the extensive notes he took during a six-month teaching given by Patrul Rinpoche at Dzogchen Monastery. It is thanks to Kunzang Pelden's labors that Patrul Rinpoche's teachings on the Bodhicharyavatara have been preserved. It could perhaps be said that The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech is the commentary that Patrul Rinpoche so often presented to students, but never actually wrote.
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Indeed this work is a detailed commentary on Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva, no more no less. As explained by its author Khenpo Kunzang Peldenin in the text's colophon, this work is the compilation of extensive notes taken during a six-month course by the author. The course focused on an ancient Indian Buddhist text called "Way of the Bodhisattva" taught by Patrul Rinpoche at Dzogchen Monastery located in Eastern Tibet at the end of the 19th-century. 'The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech' is an English translation of the original Tibetan work.
This work includes excerpts but not the full text of The 'Way of the Bodhisattva' (Bodhisattvacaryavatara), also known as 'An Entry into the Activities of Enlightenment' (Bodhicharyavatara), a relatively long poem, which details the process of enlightenment, beginning with the originating thought and continuing through to full Buddhahood. Originally written by Shantideva an 8th-century Indian Buddhist scholar and adherent of the Prasangika Madhyamaka philosophy at the ancient Nalanda University in Bihar, India. English translations of the Sanskrit and Tibetan versions can be found online, as well as in print.
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