Becoming Bodhisattvas

✍ Scribed by Pema Chodron

• Book ID: 100646617
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 182 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0834841665

✦ Synopsis

Best-selling American Buddhist nun Pema Ch odron presents a friendly and encouraging guide to spiritual practice for all those who want to take up the path of the bodhisattva--one who aspires to live life with courage, generosity, patience, fearlessness, and compassion.
The Way of the Bodhisattva has long been treasured as an indispensable guide to enlightened living, offering a window into the greatest potential within us all. Written in the eighth century by the scholar and saint Shantideva, it presents a comprehensive view of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition's highest ideal--to commit oneself to the life of a bodhisattva warrior, a person who is wholeheartedly dedicated to the freedom and common good of all beings. And it has inspired many of the tradition's greatest teachers, providing a remarkable source of insight on the means by which we may heal ourselves and our troubled world. These essential teachings present the core of the Buddhist...