The Concept of Bodhicitta in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara.

AuthorTatz, Mark
PositionBrief Article - Book Review

By FRANCIS BRASSARD. McGill Studies in the History of Religions. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2000. Pp. ix + 193.

Explanatory and subjective, utilizing neither traditional Buddhist nor modern Western methodologies, incorporating translation terminologies and explanatory essays going back a hundred years, this essay on "the arising of mind" (sic) adds nothing to our understanding of Mahayana Buddhism or the text in question. The concept bodhicitta being indeed central to Mahayana Buddhism...

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