Bodhisattvasaṃvaraviṃśaka

Bodhisattva-saṃvara-viṃśaka (T. byang chub sems dpa'i sdom pa nyi shu pa བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྡོམ་པ་ཉི་ཤུ་པ།), or The Twenty Vows of a Bodhisattva. A text by the 7th century scholar Chandragomin that explains the eighteen root bodhisattva precepts that are associated with the bodhisattva vow.

Geshe Sonam Rinchen states:

Chandragomin's Twenty Verses... is based on Asanga's Bodhisattva Stages.

The Tsadra editors state:

This brief work condenses the major points of the chapter on moral discipline, śīla or tshul khrims in Asaṅga's Bodhisattvabhūmi into twenty verses. Likely intended as a mnemonic work, it covers the major disciplinary points that must be followed by those who have taken the bodhisattva vow.

Title variations

The title is has been translated in English as:

• The Twenty Vows of a Bodhisattva (84000, Tsadra)
• Twenty Verses on the Bodhisattva Vow
• Twenty Verses on the Bodhisattva Ethical Restaints

Translations

• "Text of the Twenty Verses in English and Tibetan" in Geshe Sonam Rinchen, The Bodhisattva Vow, translated and edited by Ruth Sonam, Snow Lion, 2000.
• Mark Tatz, Candragomin's Twenty Verses on the Bodhisattva Vow (Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1982).

Commentaries

• Sakya Dragpa Gyaltsen, Chandragomin’s Twenty Verses on the Bodhisattva Vow (Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2002).

Sources

• Geshe Sonam Rinchen (2000), The Bodhisattva Vow, translated by Ruth Sonam, Snow Lion 

External links

• Bodhisattvasaṃvaraviṃśaka, Bodhicitta: A Tsadra Foundation Project
• Twenty Verses on the Bodhisattva Vow, Rigpa Shedra Wiki