Śāntideva and the Moral Psychology of Fear

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In chapters 2 and 7 of the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryāvatāra, hereafter Guide), Śāntideva provides a series of provocative verses aimed at inciting fear to motivate taking refuge in the bodhisattvas, the "Conquerors" (2.48) and "mighty Protectors of the world" (2.48), and thereby achieve fearlessness. My aim in this chapter is to investigate the moral psychology involved in this transition. (Finnigan, introductory remarks, 221)

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Finnigan, Bronwyn. "Śāntideva and the Moral Psychology of Fear." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 221–34. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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This book serves as a companion to the Bodhicaryāvatāra. The fifteen essays contained here illuminate the Guide's many philosophical, literary, ritual, and ethical dimensions.
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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.