Śāntideva, A Mystic of Buddhism
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- A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- A Critical Study of Ācārya Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (diss)
- A Dialogue between Thomas Merton on Agape and Shantideva on Karuna: Some Moral Dimensions of a Catholic and Mahayana Exchange
- A Response to John Pettit
- A Short Presentation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Study of Akṣayamati (Śāntideva)'s Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra as Found in the Tibetan Manuscripts From Tun-huang
- A Summons to Buddhahood: The Bodhicaryavatara as Santideva's Call to Embrace the Bodhicitta
- Account of the Period of the Kings Cala, Pañcamasiṃha and Others
- Akṣayamati and Śāntideva
- Altruism and Reality (1998)
- Altruism and Reality-Review by Franco
- Altruism and Reality-Review by Pettit
- Altruism in the Charnel Ground: Śāntideva and Parfit on Anātman, Reductionism and Benevolence
- Atiśa's Introduction to the Two Truths, and Its Sources
- Becoming Bodhisattvas
- Blasphemie und Sakrileg im Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Verses Bodhicaryāvatāra 6.64
- Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra als Lehrschrift und Vorhaben: Zum Thema Ritual, Religion, Philosophie und Mystik im Buddhismus
- Bodhicitta and Bodhisattva: A Study of the Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva
- Bodhisattva e Prajñāpāramitā nel Bodhicaryāvatāra di Śāntideva
- Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana
- Bu ston on the sPyod 'jug (Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra)
- Buddha Mind - Christ Mind
- Buddha's Lions
- Buddhist Texts Through the Ages
- Compassion as a Matter of Fact: The Argument from No-Self to Selflessness in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- Courageous Compassion
- Did Śāntideva Destroy the Bodhisattva Path?
- Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- Entering the Path of Enlightenment
- Entering the Path of Enlightenment-Review by Cook
- Entering the Path of Enlightenment-Review by Seyfort Ruegg
- Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva
- Ethics in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A Study in Mahāyāna Morality
- Facts or Fictions: Reconsidering Śāntideva's Names, Life, and Works
- Fierce Devotion to all Beings: The Role of Emotions in Śāntideva’s Introduction to the Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra)
- Following in the Buddha's Footsteps
- For the Benefit of All Beings
- General Introduction: Śāntideva and His World
- Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108
- How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)
- La légende de Śāntideva
- Mahasiddhas: La vie de 84 sages de l'Inde
- Masters of Mahāmudrā
- Mental Purification (Blo sbyong): A Native Tibetan Genre of Religious Literature
- Mindfulness and Moral Transformation: Awakening to Others in Śāntideva's Ethics
- Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya-Review by Osto
- Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue-Review by Goodman
- Of the Progresse of the Bodhisattva: The Bodhisattvamārga in the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- On Akṣayamati's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
- Proof of the Authenticity of the Mahāyāna in Akṣayamati's Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice-Review by Harris
- Reason, Irrationality and Akrasia (Weakness of the Will) in Buddhism: Reflections upon Śāntideva's Arguments with Himself
- Remarks on Akṣayamati (Blo gros mi zad pa), Being the Author of the Earlier Version of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
- Reply to Paul Williams
- Response to Mark Siderits' Review
- Santideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Santideva, un mistico del Buddhismo
- Seeing Sentient Beings: Śāntideva's Moral Phenomenology
- Shantideva (From Butön's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet, Translated by Lisa Stein and Ngawang Zangpo)
- Shantideva (Nariman)
- Shantideva and Bodhicaryavatara: A Close Reading
- Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara: An Internal Pilgrimage to Universal Peace and Compassion
- Shantideva's Teaching
- Shāntideva (Tib. Shi-wa-lha)
- Stotra, Psychological Conditioning, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Together with a Translation of the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda
- The Absence of Self and the Removal of Pain: How Śāntideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path
- The Awakening Mind (Tsering 2008)
- The Bodhi-caryâvatāra and Its Monastic Aspects: On the Problem of Representation
- The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature
- The Bodhisattva and the Ideal of Moral Wisdom in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- The Center of the Sunlit Sky
- The Changing Way of the Bodhisattva: Superheroes, Saints, and Social Workers
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Diss)
- The Connection between Ontology and Ethics in Madhyamaka Thought
- The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva
- The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by Abramson
- The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by Javanaud
- The Ethics of Śaṅkara and Śāntideva-Review by O'Leary
- The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India
- The Mahāsiddha Bhusuku (Śāntideva), The Idle Monk
- The Masters and Poets of the Mahāyāna
- The Metaphysical Basis of Śāntideva's Ethics
- The Middle Way of the Bodhisattva
- The Path of the Bodhisattva
- The Perfection of Wisdom (Schopen)
- The Philosophical Basis of Worship in the Works of Śāntideva
- The Reality of Altruism: Reconstructing Śāntideva, A Review of Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicāryāvatāra, by Paul Williams
- The Resolve to Become a Buddha
- The Self and the Other in Bodhicaryāvatāra: Part 1
- The Self and the Suffering Other: Levinas and Śāntideva on the Ethics of Compassion
- The Selfless Removal of Pain: A Critical Glance at Śāntideva's Argument in Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 101–3
- The Training Anthology of Śāntideva
- The Triskandha, Practice in Three Parts: Study of an Early Mahāyāna Buddhist Ritual
- The Way of the Bodhisattva: An Introduction and Commentary to Shantideva's The Way of Life of the Bodhisattva
- The Śāntideva Passage: Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII.90–103
- Theory and Comparison in the Discussion of Buddhist Ethics
- Traces of Consequentialism and Non-Consequentialism in Bodhisattva Ethics
- Uncommon Happiness
- Virtues-Pāramitās: St. Ignatius of Loyola and Śāntideva as Companions on the Way of Life
- What Is It Like to Be a Bodhisattva? Moral Phenomenology in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- What Would a Sage Do?
- Why War? Why Not Peace? Santideva's Answer to Einstein's Famous Question to Freud
- Zu einer zentralen philosophischen Kontroverse mit den "orthodoxen" Philosophen
- Ācārya Śantideva's Humanism
- Śāntideva (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Śāntideva (Karen Lang)
- Śāntideva (Potter, Kalupahana, and Sweet)
- Śāntideva (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Śāntideva and Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Śāntideva and Kant: An East-West Comparative Study in Ethics
- Śāntideva and the Bodhisattva Ideal
- Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Śāntideva as a Mantracarin
- Śāntideva in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
- Śāntideva on Developing the Thought of Awakening
- Śāntideva's Philosophy as Expressed in the Early Version of His Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra, Chapter 8
- Śāntideva, A Mystic of Buddhism
- Śāntideva, il Bodhicaryāvatāra e le kārikā del Śikṣāsamuccaya
- Śāntideva, il Bodhicaryāvatāra e le kārikā del Śikṣāsamuccaya-Review by Pāsādika
- Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles
- Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles-Review by Cabezón
- Śāntideva: The Author and His Project
- Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra: Das Weiterwirken des Werkes dargestellt anhand der Überlieferungsgeschichte des Textes und seiner Kommentare
Description
Śantideva was born, in lndia about the VIIIth Century A.D. and became one of the greatest mystics of the Buddhist Religion. The historians of Buddhism inform us that he was of aristocratic birth — the son of the king Kalyāṇavarman of Saurāṣṭra — but following the example of Buddha Śākyamuni and in harmony with the suggestions of Mañjuśrī, he entered the monastery o( Nālanda and dedicated himself to the ascetic life. Legend naturally enriched the history of his passage on earth but it remains that he was a giant figure, a fervent devotee and a profound philosopher, and his popularity reached beyond the frontiers of lndia.
His authenticated works, the Bodhicaryāvatāra and the Śikṣāsamuccaya, give us a complete picture of his mind and soul. He was a very erudite and at the same time very fervent monk and he confounded his follow-monks with his knowledge and the beauty of his expositions. Each of his books is different in character, but the matter treated is the same and both reveal his religious anxiety to show to others the Path and to support his assertions with exegetical and philosophical demonstrations as well as with many quotations from the Scriptures.
As a protagonist of Mahāyāna, Śāntideva magnifies the sanctity of the Bodhisattva calling him the most generous of creatures because he endeavours to save others from every kind of suffering, and this of his own volition, without being asked. Thus his merits are immeasurable (B.C. I, 26; Ś.S. I, p. 5). Even to think badly of the Bodhisattva—which in itself is a sin deserving of Hell—can become, in the end, a means of acquiring merit both for the sinner and the saint, since such a thought provokes the compassion of the Bodhisattva, raising him to greater heights and thus blessing in turn the evil-doer who was the instrument of this grace.
It is the Thought of the Bodhi, which transforms an ordinary man into a Bodhisattva (B.C. I, 9–10). The theory of the Bodhicitta is fully developped by Śāntideva in both the Bodhicaryāvatāra and the Śikṣāsamuccaya. The Bodhicitta is the force with which to conquer the Passions; it is the means to overcome the saṃsāra (Ś.S. I, p. 6). It is a seed of joy, a remedy to all suffering (B.C. I, 26). It arises in him who has a concrete resolve to acquire it. And this resolve can occur in him in whom there "is the spring of great mercy (mahākaruṇā)". In fact, the Though of the Bodhi has two main aspects, immanent and transcendent. Compassion (karuṇā) is the immanent aspect of it. The Bodhicitta arises indeed in a person who is never guity of neglect towards any living being. The transcendent aspect is the void (śūnyatā) and can be likened to the potential state whereas in the immanent aspect is the tangible state, the manifestation and the operative moment (Abhisamayālaṁkārāloka of Haribhadra p. 29). (Pezzali, "Śāntideva, A Mystic of Buddhism," 398–99)
