Bodhisattva Way of Life – Chapter 1 “Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior”
July 10 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Over 5 weeks with Gen Dondrub
Santideva’s classic treatise, the Bodhicaryavatara, translated here as A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, has been the most widely read, cited, and practiced text in the whole of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
Moreover, His Holiness the Dalai Lama comments that the Bodhicaryavatara is the primary source of most of the Tibetan Buddhist literature on the cultivation of altruism and the Spirit of Awakening, and his recent comprehensive work entitled The World of Tibetan Buddhism frequently cites this text.
The Bodhicaryavatara has also been a widely known and respected text in the Buddhist tradition of Mongolia, and it was the first Buddhist text translated into classical Mongolian from Tibetan by Coiji Odser in 1305.