Arya Asanga's Bodhisattvabhumi, or The Stage of a Bodhisattva, is the Mahayana tradition's most comprehensive manual on the practice and training of bodhisattvas - by the author's own account, a compilation of the full range of instructions contained in the entire collection of Mahayana sutras. A classic work of the Yogacara school, it has been cherished in Tibet by all the historical Buddhist lineages as a primary source of instruction on bodhisattva ethics, vows, and practices, as well as for its summary of the ultimate goal of the bodhisattva path - supreme enlightenment.

Despite the text's seminal importance in the Tibetan traditions, it has remained unavailable in English except in fragments. Engle's translation, made from the Sanskrit original with reference to the Tibetan translation and commentaries, will enable English readers to understand more fully and clearly what it means to be a bodhisattva and practitioner of the Mahayana tradition.

The Bodhisattva Path to Unsurpassed Enlightenment: A Complete Translation of the Bodhisattvabhumi, Asanga, Snow Lion Publications, Hardcover, 800 pages, 2016, $54.95

ASANGA was a fourth-century Indian adept and philosopher, author of the foundational works of the Yogacara school of Buddhist philosophy.

ARTEMUS B. ENGLE received a PhD in Buddhist studies from the University of Wisconsin and has studied Tibetan Buddhism for more than forty years. He teaches Tibetan language and Buddhist doctrine at the Mahayana Sutra and Tantra Center in Howell, New Jersey, and has published numerous translations of works by Indian and Tibetan masters. He has been a Tsadra Foundation Fellow since 2005.

Bodhisattva Path To Unsurpassed Enlightenment: A Complete Translation of the Bodhisattvabhumi
Foreword by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama	vii
Abbreviations	ix
Translator's Introduction	xv
Book I: The Support	29
1. The Spiritual Lineage	3
2. Generating Enlightenment Mind	21
3. One's Own and Others' Aims	35
4. The Nature of Reality	63
5. Power	105
6. Ripening	141
7. Enlightenment	159
8. The Lineages of the Powers	171
9. Generosity	205
10. Morality	237
11. Patience	313
12. Effort	331
13. Meditative Absorption	343
14. Wisdom	355
15. The Principles for Attracting a Following	365
16. Worship, Service, and the Immeasurables	387
17. The Spiritual Qualities That Are Conducive to Enlightenment	415
18. The Qualities of a Bodhisattva	465
Book II: The Qualities That Accord with the Support
1. The Marks of a Bodhisattva	495
2. Factions	505
3. Superior Attitudes	511
4. The Pleasurable States	517
Book III: The Perfection of the Support
1. Births	583
2. Embracing	587
3. The Stages	595
4. Conduct	601
5. The Marks and the Secondary Signs	607
6. Preeminence	621
The Successive Order of the Topics	665
Outline and Summary Verses	671
Bibliography	693
Index	703