This text comprises 112 stanzas introduced by a brief prologue in prose. None of Nagarjuna's other works exhibit such a well-balanced and coherent structure as the Bodhicittavivarana. This is to some extent a natural consequence of the fact that the theme is at once simple and comprehensive: bodhicitta. It has a relative aspect consisting in the desire for the bodhi (awakening) of all living beings, and an absolute consisting in the unlimited cognition of shunyata (emptiness). The Bodhicittavivarana thus provides us with a compendium of the practice and theory of Mahayana Buddhism. This book consists of an introduction, the English translation of Bodhicittavivarana, the Tibetan transcription, Sanskrit fragments, additional notes and a new essay about the Greek roots.

Revelation of Bodhicittam:Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivaranam ,Christian Lindtner, Angkor Verlag, 2015, Paperback, 91 Pages, $20.00

Paul Harrison is the George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies. Educated in his native New Zealand and in Australia, he specializes in Buddhist literature and history, especially that of the Mahayana, and in the study of Buddhist manuscripts in Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan. He is the author of The Samadhi of Direct Encounter with the Buddhas of the Present, and of numerous journal articles on Buddhist sacred texts and their interpretation. He is also one of the editors of the series Buddhist Manuscripts in the Sch�yen Collection and co-translator of the recently published English rendering of the Vimalakirtinirdesa. Paul�s current projects include editions and translations of a number of Mahayana and Mainstream Buddhist sutras and sastras, including the Vajracchedika (Diamond Sutra), as well as a general study of issues of authority, textual transmission and innovation in Mahayana Buddhism.