“If someone were to fill with jewels as many Buddha fields, as there are grains of sand in the Ganges, to offer to the Protector of the World, this would be surpassed by the gift of folding one’s hands and inclining one’s mind to enlightenment, for such is limitless.” — Atiśa, Bodhipathapradīpa, Lamp for the Path of Enlightenment, Sonam Rinchen, trans.
Indian Sources
Aśvaghoṣa/Mātṛceṭa — Nāgārjuna — Āryadeva — Āryaśūra — Candrakīrti — Candragomin — Maitreyanātha — Asaṅga — Śāntideva — Kamalaśīla — Atīśa
Aśvaghoṣa/Mātṛceṭa (c. 80-150 CE)
Mahārājakaṇiṣkalekha
Letter to Kanishka
རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀ་ནིས་ཀ་ལ་འཕྲིནས་པའི་སྤྲིང་ཡིག (Rgyal po chen po ka nis ka la ‘phrins pa’i spring yig)
Tibetan
- Hahn, Michael, Candragomin, and Mātr̥ceṭa. 1999. Invitation to Enlightenment: Letter to the Great King Kaniṣka and Letter to a Disciple. Tibetan Translation Series. Dharma Publishing. JABL
Śatapañcāśatka
Hymn to the Buddha
བརྒྱ་ལྔ་བཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟོད་པ། (Brgya lnga bcu pa zhes bya ba’i bstod pa)
Tibetan
- Mātr̥ceṭa, et al. 1951. The Ṡatapañcāśatka of Mātŗceţa: Sanskrit Text Tibetan Translation & Commentary and Chinese Translation. Cambridge: University Press.
- S. Dhammika, Ven. 2013.”Matrceta’s Hymn to the Buddha: An English Rendering of the Satapañcasatka.” Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November. accesstoinsight.org.
Nāgārjuna (active 2nd century)
Sūtrasamuccaya
Compendium of Sutra
མདོ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ། (Mdo kun las btus pa)
Tibetan
- Pāsādika, B. 1978–82. “The Sūtrasamuccaya: An English Translation from the Tibetan Version of the Sanskrit Original.” Linh-Son Publication d’Études Bouddhologiques, v. 2-20. Joinville-Le-Pont, France : Monastère Bouddhique Linh-Son.
PreciousGarland
རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གཏམ་བྱ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ། (Rgyal po la gtam bya ba rin po che’i phreng ba)
Sanskrit / Tibetan
- Hopkins, Jeffrey and Nāgārjuna. 1998. “Precious Garland.” In Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland: Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation, pp.94-164. Snow Lion Publications. (tir50.ch) JABL
- Jampa Tegchok and Nāgārjuna, Steve Carlier, trans. 2017. Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness: A Commentary on Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland. Wisdom Publications. JABL
Bodhicittavivārana
Commentary to the Awakening Mind
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ། (Byang chub sems kyi ‘grel pa)
Sanskrit / Tibetan
- Jinpa, Thupten and Nāgārjuna. “A Commentary on the Awakening Mind Nagarjuna.” (bodhimarga.org)
Āryadeva (active 3rd century)
Catuḥśataka
Four Hundred Verses
བཞི་བརྒྱ་པ། (Bzhi brgya pa)
- Lang, Karen, trans. 1986. Āryadeva’s Catuhśataka: On the Bodhisattva’s Cultivation of Merit and Knowledge. Akademisk. JABL (archive.org)
- Lang, Karen, trans. 2003. Four Illusions: Candrakīrti’s Advice for Travelers on the Bodhisattva Path. Oxford University Press. JABL (translation of Candrakīrti’s commentary–chapters 1-4)
- Berzin, Alexander. “Overview of ‘Four Hundred Verse Treatise’ – Dr. Berzin.” Study Buddhism by Berzin Archives. (studybuddhism.com)
Āryaśūra (4th century)
Jātakamālā
Garland of Birth Stories
སྐྱེས་པའི་རབས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུད (Skyes pa’i rabs kyi rgyud)
Sanskrit Tibetan
- Āryaśūra, et al. 1983.The Marvelous Companion: Life Stories of the Buddha = Jātakamālā = Skyes-Pa’i-Rabs-Kyi Rgyud. Dharma Publishing. JABL
- Speyer, J. S. 1971. The Jātakamālā or garland of birth-stories of Āryaśūra. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL (gutenberg.org)
- Vaidya, P. L. (ed.). 1959. Jātaka-Mālā.Mithila Institute of Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Sanskrit Learning.
Pāramitāsamāsa-nāma
Compendium of Perfections
ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་བསྡུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། (Pha rol tu phyin pa bsdus pa)
Sanskrit Tibetan
- Beresford, Brian C., D. Tul-ku, G. Tulku, and S. Tulku. 1979. Aryasura’s Aspiration: With Commentary by Gendun Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama; and a Meditation on Compassion from a Discourse by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Together with a Sadhana of Avalokiteshvara. Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. JABL
- Meadows, Carol and Michael Hahn, ed. 1986. Āryaśūra’s Compendium of the Perfections: Text, Translation, and Analysis of Pāramitāsamāsa. India et Tibetica Verlag. WorldCat
Candrakīrti (c.570–c.650)
Madhyamakāvatāra
Enty to the Middle Way
དབུ་མ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ (Dbu ma la ‘jug pa)
Tibetan
- Huntington, C. W., and Namgyal Wangchen. 1992. The Emptiness of Emptiness: An Introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL
- La Vallée Poussin, Louis de, and Candrakīrti. 1912. Madhyamakāvatāra. Impr. de l’Académie impériale des sciences.
- Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa and Jinpa Thupten. 2021. Illuminating the Intent: An Exposition of Candrakīrti’s “Entering the Middle Way”. Somerville MA: Wisdom Publications. JABL
Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya
Auto commentary to Entry to the Middle Way (Box)
དབུ་མ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་བཤད་པ་ (Dbu ma la ‘jug pa’i bshad pa)
Tibetan
- Churinoff, George and Thubten Jampa (trans.), and Candrakīrti. 1994. Supplement to the Middle Way (Madhyamakavatara) & Explanation of the Supplement to the Middle Way (Madhyamakavatara Bhashyam). (media.dalailama.com)
- Liland, Fredrik. 2019. Madhyamakāvatārabhāṣya: Chandrakirti’s Auto-Commentary to Entering the Middle Way. Bibliotheca Polyglotta. (www2.hf.uio.no) (pdf)
Candragomin (5th century)
Bodhisattvasaṃvaraviṃśaka
Bodhisattva vows
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡོམ་པ་ཉི་ཤུ་པ། (Byang chub sems dpa’i sdom pa nyi shu pa)
Tibetan
- Berzin, Alexander. [n.d.] Root Bodhisattva Vows. Study Buddhism by Berzin Archives. (studybuddhism.com)
- Sonam Rinchen. 2000. The Bodhisattva Vow. Snow Lion. JABL
- Tatz, Mark, Candragomin and Grags-pa-rgyal-mtshan. 1983. Candragomin’s Twenty Verses on the Bodhisattva Vow and Its Commentary by Sakya Dragpa Gyaltsen. Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. JABL
Maitreyanātha
Abhisamayālaṃkāra
Ornament of Clear Realization
ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་མན་ངག་གི་བསྟན་བཅོས་མངོན་པར་རྟོགས་པའི་ རྒྱན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ། (Shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa’i man ngag gib stan bcos mngon par rtogs pa’i rgyan zhes bya ba’i tshig le’ur byas ba)
Sanskrit Tibetan
- Āryavimuktiṣeṇa, Gareth Sparham, Maitreyanātha, and Haribhadra. 2006. Abhisamayālaṃkāra with vr̥tti and ālokā. Jain Publishing Company. JABL
- Hopkins, Jeffrey, and Jongbok Yi. 2015. Maitreya’s Ornament for the Clear Realizations. UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies. uma-tibet.org
Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkārakārikā
Ornament of the Mahāyāna Sutra
ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱན་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ། (Theg pa chen po mdo sde’I rgyan zhes bya ba’I tshig le’ur byas pa)
Sanskrit Tibetan
- Asaṅga., Maitreyanātha, Robert A. F. Thurman, L. Jamspal, and Vasubandhu. 2004. The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature = Mahāyānasūtrālaṁkāra. American Institute of Buddhist Studies. JABL
- Asaṅga, Maitreyanātha., Gźan-phan-chos-kyi-snaṅ-ba, and Mi-pham-rgya-mtsho. 2014. Ornament of the Great Vehicle Sūtras : Maitreya’s Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham. Snow Lion. JABL
Asaṅga (6th century)
Bodhisattvabhūmiḥ
Bodhisattva Grounds
ས་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས། (Sa las byang chub sems dpa’i sa)
Tibetan
- Asaṅga, and Artemus B. Engle, trans. 2016. The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment: A Complete Translation of the Bodhisattvabhūmi. Snow Lion. JABL
- Tatz, Mark, Asaṅga and Tsong-kha-pa. 1986. Asanga’s Chapter on Ethics with
- Commentary of Tsong-Kha-Pa, the Basic Path to Awakening, the Complete Bodhisattva. The Edwin Mellen Press. (archive.org)
Śāntideva (active 7th century)
Śikṣāsamuccaya
Compendium of Training or Compendium of Precepts
བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་ (Bslab pa kun las btus pa’i tshig le’ur bya ba)
Tibetan Sanskrit
Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra or Bodhicaryāvatāra
A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ (Byang chub sems dpa’i spyod pa la ‘jug pa)
Tibetan Sanskrit
- Batchelor, Stephen, trans., and Śāntideva. 2012. A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life. Snow Lion. JABL
- Bstan-‘dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, and Thupten Jinpa, trans. 2012. Practicing Wisdom: The Perfection of Shantideva’s Bodhisattva Way. Wisdom Publications. JABL
- Bstan-‘dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, Pema Wangyal, Śãntideva, and Comité De Traduction Padmakara. 2009. For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva. Shambhala. JABL
- Comité De Traduction Padmakara, trans., and Śāntideva. 2008. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara. Shambhala. JABL
- Crosby, Kate and Andrew Skilton, trans., and Śāntideva. 2008. The Bodhicaryāvatāra. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (WorldCat)
- Oldmeadow, Peter. 1994. A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajnaparamita Pariccheda) Bodhicāryavtārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati. Australian National University. Open Access Theses. (openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au)
- Sharma, Parmananda, Śāntideva, and Prajñākaramati. 1990. Śāntidēva’s Bodhicharyāvatāra: Original Sanskrit Text with English Translation and Exposition Based on Prajñākarmati’s Pañjikā. Aditya Prakashan. JABL
- Wallace, Vesna A. and Wallace, B. Alan, trans., and Śāntideva. 1997. A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life = Bodhicaryāvatāra. Snow Lion. JABL
Kamalaśīla (active 713-763)
Bhāvanākrama
Stages of Meditation
བསྒོམ་པའི་རིམ་པ། (Bsgom pa’i rim pa)
Tibetan: initial, middling, final
Sanskrit
- Adam, Martin T. and Kamalaśīla. 2002. Meditation and the Concept of Insight in Kamalaśīla’s Bhāvanākrama. Dissertation. McGill University. WorldCat
- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, Kamalaśīla, Geshe Lobsang Jordhen, Losang Choephel Ganchenpa, and Jeremy Russell, trans. 2001. Stages of Meditation: [Commentary]. Ithaca NY: Snow Lion Publications. JABL
- Kamalaśīla and Paramananda Sharma. 2004. Bhāvanākrama of Kamalaśīla. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. JABL
- Kamalaśīla, Lhundup Sopa, Geshe, Elvin W. Jones, and John Newman, trans. [n.d.] Middle Length Stages of Meditation PDF
Atīśa (982-1084)
Bodhisattvamaṇyāvalī
The Bodhisattva’s Garland of Jewels
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ནོར་བུའི་ཕྲེང་བ། (Byang chub sems dpa’i nor bu’i phreng ba)
Tibetan
- Berzin, Alexander, trans., and Atīśa [n.d.] “A Bodhisattva’s Garland of Gems.” Study Buddhism by Berzin Archives. studybuddhism.com
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