Bodhisattvacaryavatara, Bodhisattva-caryavatara, Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: 5 definitions
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Bodhisattvacaryavatara has 3 English definitions available.
Alternative spellings of this word include Bodhisattvacharyavatara.
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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger WörterbuchBodhisattvacaryāvatāra (बोधिसत्त्वचर्यावतार):—[(bo + carya ava)] m. Titel einer buddhistischen Schrift [WASSILJEW 208.]
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer FassungBodhisattvacaryāvatāra (बोधिसत्त्वचर्यावतार):—m. , sattvapakṣanirdeśa m. , sattvapiṭaka m. oder n. , sattvabuddhānusmṛtisamādhi m. und sattvabhūmi f. Titel buddh. Werke.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Caryavatara, Bodhisattva.
Full-text: Bodhicaryavatara, 'thor rlung, Shilasagara.
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Bodhisattvacharyavatara (by Andreas Kretschmar)
Translator’s Introduction < [Introduction Text]
Text Section 101 < [Khenpo Chöga’s Oral Explanations]
Text Section 194 < [Khenpo Chöga’s Oral Explanations]
Blue Annals (deb-ther sngon-po) (by George N. Roerich)
Chapter 13 - Staglungpa (x): nam mkha' dpal bzang po < [Book 8 - The famous Dakpo Kagyü (traditions)]
Chapter 29 - Sonam Gyatso (iii): Ordination and early education < [Book 10 - The Kālacakra]
Chapter 9 - Phagmodrupa (iii): rpo rje rgyal po < [Book 8 - The famous Dakpo Kagyü (traditions)]
Guhyagarbha Tantra (with Commentary) (by Gyurme Dorje)
Text 13.8 (Commentary) < [Chapter 13 (Text and Commentary)]