THE BODHICARYĀVATĀRA
A Guide to the Buddhist Path to Awakening
Translated by Kate Crosby and Andrew Skilton
Read by William Hope
10 hours 11minutes
Written in India in the early eighth century CE, Śāntideva Bodhicaryāvatāra takes as its subject the profound desire to become a Buddha and save all beings from suffering. The person who enacts such a desire is a Bodhisattva. Śāntideva not only sets out what the Bodhisattva must do and become, he also invokes the intense feelings of aspiration which underlie such a commitment, using language which has inspired Buddhists in their religious life from his time to the present. Continue Reading →