Profound Reality of Interdependence - An Overview of the Wisdom Chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva

The Way of the Bodhisattva, composed by the monk and scholar ¿¿ntideva in eighth-century India, is a Buddhist treatise in verse that beautifully and succinctly lays out the theory and practice of the Mahayana path of a bodhisattva. The ninth chapter of the Way of the Bodhisattva is philosophically very rich but forbiddingly technical, and can only be read well with a good commentary. This volume makes Künzang Sönam's extensive commentary on the ninth chapter accessible to English-speaking teachers and students of the Way of the Bodhisattva.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Part I: Translator's Introduction


• The Way of the Bodhisattva


• Life of Künzang Sönam


• Wisdom: The Ninth Chapter


• Part II: The Translation


• Bibliography

About the author

Douglas Duckworth is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Temple University. He is the author of Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition (2008) and Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings (2011). He also introduced and translated Distinguishing the Views and Philosophies: Illuminating Emptiness in a Twentieth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Classic by Bötrül (2011). He is the author of Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature (OUP 2019).

Product details

• Authors: Kunzang Sonam, Künzang Sönam
• Assisted by: Douglas S Duckworth (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2025
• EAN: 9780197826751
• ISBN: 978-0-19-782675-1
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; RELIGION / Buddhism / Sacred Writings, Buddhist Sacred Texts, Buddhism: sacred texts and revered writings