proposal

Please do a 2 page proposal. This is a proposal for a 20-pages research paper.

topic I chose: bodhisattva

primary text use: huayanjing(chapter 26, the ten grounds)

http://www.cttbusa.org/avatamsaka/avatamsaka_contents.asp chapter 

Please follow the following steps. 

1. identify the topic(thesis statement) in one specific text.(bodhisattva)

2. provide clear definition and all key technical terms related to your specific topic

3. rely on primary text first

4. and then use secondary scholarship to help you interpret the primary text

more specific steps about my topic(the structure can be):

A good bodhisattva does X, Y and Z. I am going to explore to you what X, Y, and Z is.(please identify which chapter which section in huayanjing.) Then you use other scholar's paper to help you explain

a)X……

b)Y……

c)Z……

please note the sources you use, and please explain which source support which part of your statement.