Nāgārjuna's Treatise on the Ten Bodhisattva Grounds - Bilingual
(Bilingual Chinese-English Edition)
Nāgārjuna's Treatise on the Ten Bodhisattva Grounds - Bilingual
Bilingual Chinese-English Edition
The Daśabhūmika Vibhāṣā
By Ārya Nāgārjuna (ca 2nd c.)
"Nāgārjuna’s Treatise on the Ten Bodhisattva Grounds" is Bhikshu Dharmamitra’s extensively annotated original translation of Ārya Nāgārjuna’s "Daśabhūmika Vibhāṣā" rendered from Tripiṭaka Master Kumārajīva’s circa 410 ce Sanskrit-to-Chinese translation. It consists of 35 chapters that explain the cultivation of the ten highest levels of bodhisattva practice leading to buddhahood, focusing almost exclusively on the first two of the ten bodhisattva grounds, "the Ground of Joyfulness" and "the Ground of Stainlessness."
This is a work which has never been translated into English before. This special bilingual edition (English / Chinese) includes the facing-page simplified and traditional Chinese scripts to facilitate close study by academic buddhologists, students in Buddhist universities, and Buddhists in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and the West.
This edition of the English translation includes: List of Abbreviations; General Table of Contents; Directory to Chapter Subsections (19 pages, outlined); Endnotes (600+); Variant Readings from Other Chinese Editions; Glossary; and Bibliography.
This special "Bilingual Chinese-English Edition" includes facing-page simplified (Qianlong Zang) and traditional (Taisho) Chinese scripts. For the "English-Only Edition," Click Here.
Two Volumes, 1372 pages, paper, 6" x 9"
Volume One, 692 pages, ISBN: 9781935413172
Volume Two, 680 pages, ISBN: 9781935413189
Preview the Book via PDF Excerpts: Contents, Introduction / Chapter One
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