BODHICARYĀVATĀRA

The Bodhicaryāvatāra is the classical work on Mahayāna Buddhism and was composed in Sanskrit by the Indian monk Śantideva in the 7th century. In ten chapters, Śantideva gives detailed step-by-step instructions of the ethical and psychological training one must undertake to become a bodhisattva. The Bodhicaryāvatāra was widely used as a text book in ancient India and later had, and continues to has, enormous importance in Tibet.