Shantideva

A vivid new translation of selections from an inspiring guide to self-transformation through kindness by an eighth-century Buddhist monkWritten by the medieval Indian Buddhist monk Shantideva, The Bodhicaryavatara is one of the most beloved and frequently taught works in Buddhism and a favourite of the Dalai Lama. An inspiring and powerful poem that uses a gripping, first-person, confessional voice, it...

This timeless text of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism has been widely studied and respected for more than a thousand years in all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It is considered one of the great teaching texts of Mahayana Buddhism as well. The Way of the Bodhisattva is an exposition of the path of a bodhisattva, a being who puts others before himself....