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Synopsis Bodhipathapradipa is unanimously construed as the magnum opus among the compositions of Dipankara Srijnana (Atisa). As a religious text composed by a Buddhist mendicant of India as well as Tibet, it reconciles the doctrines of the different schools of Buddhism (Madhyamika Sunyavada, Vijnanavada of Yogacharins and the doctrines of Mahayanic Sutras) in its tenets towards the ealisation of Bodhi or perfect enlightenments. But as Rgveda being a book of hymns of Brahmanism, entertains universal appeal in its doctrines of philanthropical dynamism, as several Mahayanic texts while professing Mahayanic doctrines profess cosmopolitan appeal in its dynamic principle of universal emancipation and as 'Stuti Chintamani' of the tribal poet Bhima Bhoi of Orissa while advocating the theology of Mahimaism preaches for a better world-order even at the cost of the distress of Mahimaites, Bodhipathapradipa epitomises in the midst of Buddhist theology the basic rinciple of humanism and the ideal of human civilization. This text embodies critical and intellectual discourses on Buddhism and Bodhipathapradipa, life of Dipankara Srijnana, Sanskrit text of Bodhipathapradipa, its translation in English and the ideology of Bodhipathapradipa in critical and comparative studies. It also highlights the ideology of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism.