A Guide to the Boddhisattva's Way of Life

Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. (1981). Softcover. Rubbing to spine and edges of covers. Previous owner's name. ; 1981 reprint of an edition first published in 1979. 199, [1 (blank)] pages. Illustarted grey card covers. Page dimensions: 214 x 138mm. Text in English. An edition in English of the Bodhisattbacharayavata (Sanskrit) or Byang.chub.sems.dpai'. spyod.pal.la.jug.pa (Tibetan). "In the autumn of 1974, in response to the request of several Western Buddhists studying in Dharamsala, India, His Holiness the Dalai Lama encouraged and gave his blessing to an undertaking at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives of a project to translate Shantideva's 'Bodhisattvacharyavatara'. In order to do this, he suggested that the 'Ocean of Good Explanation,' a commentary to the 'Bodhisattvacharyavatata' by the 12th century Tibetan Lama T'ogme Zang-po, be used as the basis for the translation. For the following year Geshe Ngawang Dargyey proceeded to give a word by word explanation of this text translated by Sherpa Tulku. It is on the basis of that teaching that this translation has been completed." - from the Translatros' Introduction by Stephen Batchelor (Gelong Jhampa Thabkay), dated Switzerland 1979. .