Śāntideva (Potter, Kalupahana, and Sweet)

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Śāntideva
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Śāntideva's Life and Cultural World


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This is the entry for Śāntideva and his works in Karl H. Potter's Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Vol. 21. It includes some biographical information on Śāntideva's life, chapter summaries of the Bodhicaryāvatāra by David Kalupahana—with a summary of part of chapter 9 drawn from Michael J. Sweet's Ph.D. Thesis (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1977), entitled "Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra"—and a short paragraph on the Śikṣāsamuccaya.
Citation
Potter, Karl H., David J. Kalupahana, and Michael J. Sweet. "Śāntideva." In Buddhist Philosophy from 600 to 750 A.D., edited by Karl H. Potter, 516–25. Vol. 21 of Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2017.
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An "Introduction to Bodhisattva Practice," the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra is a poem about the path of a bodhisattva, in ten chapters, written by the Indian Buddhist Śāntideva (fl. c. 685–763). One of the masterpieces of world literature, it is a core text of Mahāyāna Buddhism and continues to be taught, studied, and commented upon in many languages and by many traditions around the world. The main subject of the text is bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment, and the path and practices of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (pāramitās). The text forms the basis of many contemporary discussions of Buddhist ethics and philosophy.