Shantideva's Guide to Awakening

The most comprehensive modern commentary on Shantideva’s master work. One of the great classics of Buddhist literature, the  Bodhicharyavatara , or  Way of the Bodhisattva , is required reading for understanding Tibetan Buddhism. Presented in the form of a personal meditation in verse, Shantideva, the seventh-century Buddhist master, outlines the path of the bodhisattvas—those who renounce the peace of their own liberation, vowing instead to attain enlightenment for the sake of all oth