A strand of dharma jewels - arya nagarjuna

This is Tripitaka Master Paramarthas earliest (ca 550 ce) complete edition of The Ratnavali, one of Arya Nagarjunas most important works.

In its five 100-verse chapters, Nagarjuna presents both abstruse teachings and practical advice to lay and monastic practitioners while also describing in considerable detail the short-term and long-term terrains of the Bodhisattva Path.

This very early edition is particularly useful in shedding light on difficult passages in the much-later Tibetan revised translation edition, the only other complete edition of this work.

Translation by the American monk, Bhikshu Dharmamitra.

This volume includes facing-page source text in both traditional and simplified scripts.