Strand Of Dharma Jewels eBook

This is Tripitaka Master Paramartha''s earliest (ca 550 ce) complete edition of The Ratnavali, one of Arya Nagarjuna''s 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.