A Preliminary Report on a Palm-leaf Manuscript of Prajñākaramati’s Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā

作者： 王俊淇 点击数： 更新时间：2025-08-16 16:56:16

The Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā (BCAP) composed by Prajñākaramati (c. 10–11th century) is the only officially published Sanskrit commentary on Śāntideva’s renown Bodhicaryāvatāra (BCA). Since the critical edition of BCAP was published in the early 20th century by Louis de La Vallée Poussin (1914), it has been carefully studied by many scholars. However, this early critical edition of BCAP is far from perfect. According to de La Vallée Poussin’s “Introduction,” the critical edition is based on two Sanskrit manuscripts, noting that: “The first is in the Nepalese character and contains (with several large lacunae) the whole of the work; the second, in the Maithili character, contains only the commentary on the ninth chapter.” This means that the first eight chapters of his edition of the BCAP are based only on a problematic Nepalese manuscript. There are therefore significant lacunae in the commentaries to the BCA’s verses: 1.1, 3.22–33, 4.1–45, 8.18–22, 8.24–25, 8.40–47, and 8.108 186, as well as many smaller textual lacunae and unreadable passages scattered throughout the whole text which ultimately have hindered the exhaustive study of the text as a whole

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