84 Repropositions from the Bodhicaryavatara of Shantideva

by Śāntideva, Steven J. Stewart (Translator)

Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B007XHBKF2.

The Bodhicaryavatara was written around 700 A.D. in Sanskrit by the Buddhist monk Shantideva (or Śāntideva). It is a fascinating and fundamental text of Buddhist thought.

This short e-book takes lines from the ninth chapter “The Perfection of Understanding” and distills, reworks, and presents them according to possibilities they suggest. These are not simply translations, but often adaptations and re-creations. In all cases, a desire for concision and clarity has dictated the choices of the present text.

The author/translator has worked from numerous extant translations of the Bodhicaryavatara in constructing this edition.

Steven J. Stewart has published numerous translations in magazines and literary journals. He was awarded a 2005 Literature Fellowship for Translation by the National Endowment for the Arts. His book of translations of Spanish poet Rafael Pérez Estrada, Devoured by the Moon, which was published by Hanging Loose Press in 2004, was a finalist for the 2005 PEN-USA translation award.

Cover designed by Alyssa Jorgensen.

13 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Śāntideva was an North Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist monk associate with Nālandā monastery, who flourished somewhere between 685 and 763 CE. His two extant works are widely considered to be classics of explication of the philosophy and practice of the Buddhist "Great Vehicle" path.