A Strand of Dharma Jewels: A Bodhisattva's Pofound Teachings on Happiness, Liberation, and the Path

This volume presents Bhikshu Dharmamitra's translation of Tripitaka Master Paramartha's earliest (ca 550 ce) complete edition of "The Ratnavali," one of Arya Nagarjuna's most important works. In its five 100-verse chapters, Nagarjuna presents both abstruse teachings and practical advice to lay and monastic practitioners while also describing in considerable detail the short-term and long-term terrains of the Bodhisattva Path. This very early edition is particularly useful in shedding light on difficult passages in the much-later Tibetan "revised translation" edition, the only other complete edition of this work. Translation by the American monk, Bhikshu Dharmamitra, a translator of numerous classic works from the Indian and Chinese Buddhist traditions. This volume includes facing-page source text in both traditional and simplified scripts together with numerous notes by the translator.