Indian Sources

Bodhisattvabhūmi
Bodhisattva Bhumis (Asaṅga)
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་ས་
byang chub sems dpa’i sa

  • Asaṅga, and Artemus B Engle. 2016. The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment: A Complete Translation of the Bodhisattvabhūmi. Snow Lion JABL

Śikṣāsamuccaya
Compendium of Training (Śāntideva)
བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་ 
bslab pa kun las btus pa’i tshig le’ur bya ba
Sanskrit   Tibetan

  • Śāntideva, Cecil Bendall, and W. H. D. Rouse. 2006. Śiks̥ā samuccaya: A Compendium of Buddhist Doctrine. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL
  • Śāntideva, and Charles Goodman. 2016. The Training Anthology of Śāntideva: Translation of the Śikṣā-Samuccaya. Oxford University Press. JABL

Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Śāntideva)
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་
byang chub sems dpa’i spyod pa la ‘jug pa
Sanskrit  Tibetan

  • Śāntideva and Comité De Traduction Padmakara. 2008. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara. Shambhala. JABL
  • Śāntideva and Stephen Batchelor. 2012. A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life. Boston: Snow Lion.  JABL

Suhṛllekha
Letter to a Friend (Nāgārjuna)
བཤེས་པའི་སྤྲིངས་ཡིག་
bshes pa’i springs yig 
Sanskrit  Tibetan

  • Nāgārjuna and Alexander Berzin (trans.) “Letter to a Friend.” Study Buddhism by Berzin Archives. English / Tibetan
  • Nāgārjuna, Red-mdaʼ-ba Gzhon-nu-blo-gros, Lobsang Tharchin, and Artemus B Engle (eds.) 1979. Nāgārjuna’s Letter: Nāgārjuna’s “Letter to a Friend” with a Commentary by Venerable Rendawa Zhön-Nu Lo-Drö.  Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. JABL

Abhisamayālaṅkāra
Ornament of Clear Realization (Maitreya )
མངོན་རྟོགས་རྒྱན་
mngon rtogs rgyan

  • Hopkins, Jeffrey and Jongbok Yi. 2015. Maitreya’s Ornament for the Clear Realizations. UMA Institute for Tibetan Studies. (uma-tibet.org)
  • Maitreyanatha, Arya Vimuktisena (Vrtti), Haribhadra (Aloka), and Gareth Sparham. 2015. Abhisamayalamkara with Vrtti and Aloka. Vols. 1-4. Jain Publishing. JABL

Ratnāvalī or Ratnamāla
Precious Garland (Nagarjuna)
རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གཏམ་བྱ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ་
rgyal po la gtam bya ba rin po che’i phreng ba
Tibetan

  • Nāgārjuna and Jeffrey Hopkins. 1998. “Precious Garland.” In Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland: Buddhist Advice for Living and Liberation, 94-164. Snow Lion Publications.  JABL (tir50.ch)

Abhidharmakośa
Treasury of Abhidharma (Vasubandhu) 
ཆོས་མངོན་པའི་མཛོད་
chos mngon pa’i mdzod

  • Vasubandhu, Étienne Louis, and Leo M Pruden. 1988. Abhidharmakośabhāṣyam. Asian Humanities Press. JABL
  • The Universal Vehicle Discourse by Asaṅga, Maitreyanātha & Vasubandhu (Mahāyānasūtrālaṁkāra)
    Asaṅga, Maitreyanātha, Vasubandhu, Robert A. F. Thurman, and L. Jamspal. 2004. The Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature = Mahāyānasūtrālaṁkāra. American Institute of Buddhist Studies. JABL (archive.org)

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