Four illusions : Candrakīrti's advice for travelers on the Bodhisattva path / translation and introduction by Karen C. Lang.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Sanskrit New York : Oxford University Press, 2003Description: xv, 240 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195151127 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0195151135 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Bodhisattvayogācāracatuḥʹsatakṭīkā. Selections. English
- 294.3/85 21
- BQ3300.B6222 E522 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-233) and index.
This work offers the first translation into a Western language of the first four chapters of Candrakīrti's commentary on Āryadeva's 400 Stanzas. In these chapters he offers therapeutic advice to monastics and lay people on how to cope with death, suffering, lust and egotism.