This edition of the classic Buddhist treatise, A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, offers a timeless exploration of the Bodhisattva ideal and the path to enlightenment. Praised by Publishers Weekly as a translation that "will stand for many years as the standard English version," it remains one of the most revered and widely practiced texts in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Composed in the eighth century by the Indian Bodhisattva Śāntideva, this work became a cornerstone of Buddhist monastic education in India and continues to inspire readers today. Śāntideva outlines practical methods to align one’s life with the Bodhisattva ideal, encouraging the cultivation of key virtues: generosity, ethics, patience, zeal, meditative concentration, and wisdom.