
Bodhisatvapi?aka
Diplomatic Edition
Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Published on 4. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXI, 354 pages
978-3-7001-9548-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Bodhisatvapi?aka ("The Collection of the Bodhisattvas") is a middle-period Mahayana sutra, edited here for the first time in Sanskrit. It probably represents an early attempt to produce a consistent and complete exposition of the Mahayana as it became popular around the beginning the Common Era. The codex unicus presented here in a diplomatic edition, with corrections in the notes, dates from the 9th century CE and is currently kept in Lhasa. The Bodhisatvapi?aka explains the main doctrines and concepts of Mahayana Buddhism. The work contains an unusually large number of frame stories in the form of jataka, avadana, and vyakara?a. In contradistinction to other Mahayana sutras, the Bodhisatvapi?aka extols monastic ideals, with a layman as the main protagonist whose aim is monkhood. As an editio princeps, this publication represents a milestone for the study of Mahayana Buddhism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wien
Austria
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7001-9548-1 (9783700195481)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW95481
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is Lecturer at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, and an institute fellow at PHI in Oslo
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is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo and Director of the Norwegian Institute of Philology
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is Professor Emeritus at Bukkyo University (Kyoto, Japan)
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is Associate Professor of History of Religions at the Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University
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