Literary History of Sanskrit Buddhism

Nāgārjuna – 126
Śikṣasamuccaya by Śāntideva are the Tathāgataguhyasūtra,
Daśabhūmikasūtra, Dharmasaṁgītisūtra, several recensions of the
Prajñāpāramitā, Karuṇapuṇḍarīka, Ratnakūṭasūtra, Ratnamegha,
Laṅkāvatāra, Lalitavistara, Salistambasūtra, Saddharmapuṇḍarīka,
Suvarṇaprabhāsa, etc.
The Ratnakūṭasūtra is said to have been translated into Chinese
before 170 A.D. As to its contents as given in the Chinese rendering
see Wassiljew’s Buddhismus, p. 167 ff. [105]
Moral ideal
Although the Sikṣasamuccaya is the production of a scholar of little
originality and the Bodhicaryāvatāra is the creation of an eminent
poet, there is no question but that we owe both to the same author.
Apart from external grounds the two books so fundamentally
different in their character take the same standpoint as regards the
doctrine. In both the texts the moral ideal is the Bodhisattva who has
resolved to attain to enlightenment, who strives to obtain his object
in the first place by means of inexhaustible compassion for all
creatures, and secondly, by means of adoration of the Buddha and
who perceives supreme wisdom in the recognition of “Vanity” or
Śūnyatā.
The text of the Bodhicaryāvatāra was edited by the Russian scholar
I.P. Minayeff in the Zapiski, and it has also been reprinted in the
Journal of the Buddhist Text Society. La Vallée-Poussin published for
the Bibliotheca Indica Prajñākaramati’s commentary on the
Bodhicaryāvatāra and also a translation of it.