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Śāntideva
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- A Buddhist 'good life' Theory: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- A Critical Study of Ācārya Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- 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 Fearless Heart
- A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night
- A Note on Mahāyāna Buddhism and the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Response to John Pettit
- A Role for Primordial Wisdom in the Buddhist Free Will Controversy
- A Selfless Response to an Illusory World: A Comparative Study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara
- A Short Presentation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Study of Akṣayamati (Śāntideva)'s Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra as Found in the Tibetan Manuscripts From Tun-huang
- A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati
- A Study of the Ṡikṣasamuccaya of Āchārya Shāntideva
- 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
- Akṣayamati's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra as Found in the Tibetan Manuscripts from Dūn-huáng
- 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
- An Argument for Cittamātra: Reflections on Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:28 (Tib. 27) cd
- An Inquiry into the Relationship between the Śikṣāsamuccaya and the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
- An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 9
- Appendix B: Excerpt from A Lamp Completely Illuminating the Profound Reality of Interdependence
- 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
- Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra and Śikṣāsamuccaya
- Bodhicaryāvatāra (Weeraratne)
- Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:2 as a Focus for Tibetan Interpretations of the Two Truths in the Prāsangika Mādhyamika
- Bodhicaryāvatāra and Bodhicaryāvatāra-Pañjikā (Malalasekera)
- Bodhicaryāvatāra and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong)
- Bodhicaryāvatāra no kihon seikaku: Ichininshō no imi suru mono
- Bodhicaryāvatāra: Governing the Bodhisattvas Way of Life
- Bodhicharyavatara (Rigpa Shedra Wiki)
- Bodhicitta and Bodhisattva: A Study of the Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva
- Bodhicitta: Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment
- Bodhisattva e Prajñāpāramitā nel Bodhicaryāvatāra di Śāntideva
- Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Exposition de la pratique des bodhisattvas
- Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana
- Bu ston and the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravyākhyāna (-pañjikā)
- Bu ston on the sPyod 'jug (Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra)
- Buddha Mind - Christ Mind
- Buddha's Lions
- Buddhist Ethics (2003)
- Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Conventional Truth: Path and Transformation
- Buddhist Mereological Analysis in the Milindapañhā, Vasubandhu's Twenty Verses, and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Buddhist Texts Through the Ages
- Built on Emptiness: Śūnyatā as a Basis for Mahāyāna Ethics, With References to Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Camino al Despertar
- Can We Kill Illusory People? Some Philosophical Reflections on Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra 9:11-13ab
- Characteristics of the Buddhist Mongolian Texts: The Lineage of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Commentaries on Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Ejima 1966)
- Compassion and Equality
- Compassion as a Matter of Fact: The Argument from No-Self to Selflessness in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism
- Compassion in Our Day: Learning from Shantideva
- Comprendre la vacuité
- Consequentialism, Agent-Neutrality, and Mahāyāna Ethics
- Consequentialism, Particularism, and the Emptiness of Persons: A Response to Vishnu Sridharan
- Courageous Compassion
- Critique of Self in the Early and Later Versions of the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
- Cultivating Bodhicitta: Wisdom and Compassion in Śāntideva's Introduction to the Awakened Life
- Das 7. Kapitel über die Tatkraft in Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Das Ritual der Entschlussfassung im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Kap. II und III)
- Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara)
- Did Śāntideva Destroy the Bodhisattva Path?
- Die "Vollkommenheiten" im BCA und seinen tibetischen Kommentaren
- Die Lehre von Satyadvaya in 'Ju Mi phams Nor bu ke ta ka
- Die zwei Wahrheiten
- Die zwei Wirklichkeiten
- Does "Buddhist Ethics" Exist?
- Does Anātman Rationally Entail Altruism? On Bodhicaryāvatāra 8:101-103
- Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna's Commentary on the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Emptiness and Moral Perfection
- Enlightened Vagabond
- Entering the Path of Enlightenment
- Entering the Path of Enlightenment-Review by Cook
- Entering the Path of Enlightenment-Review by Seyfort Ruegg
- Epitome of the Bodhicaryāvatāra with Its Pañjikā, Chap. IX
- Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva
- Ethics (Garfield)
- Ethics and the Subversion of Conceptual Reification in Lévinas and Śāntideva
- Ethics in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
- Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism
- Ethics in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A Study in Mahāyāna Morality
- Exchanging Self and Other
- Experience and Morality: Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology
- 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
- Freedom from Responsibility: Agent-Neutral Consequentialism and the Bodhisattva Ideal
- From Madhyamaka to Consequentialism: A Road Map
- From the Profound View of the Ultimate to Everyday Practice: Tokme Zangpo's Integration of Śāntideva's Teachings into Mind Training
- General Introduction: Śāntideva and His World
- Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108
- Gser gling pa's Bodhisattvacaryāvatārapiṇḍārtha and Its Thought
- How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)
- Hume as a Western Mādhyamika: The Case from Ethics
- Identifying the Object of Negation: On Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:140 (Tib. 139)
- In Praise of Great Compassion
- Indian Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy after Nagarjuna, Vol. 2
- Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva's Cultivation of Compassion
- Introduction to Gzhan gyis brtsad pa'i lan mdor bsdus pa rigs lam rab gsal de nyid snang byed: An Answer to Blo-bzang-rab-gsal's Refutation of the Author's 'Sher le nor bu ke ta ka' and Its Defence, the Brgal lan nyin byed snang ba
- Jitāri, Śāntideva and Prabhākarakīrti
- L'opalescent joyau
- La conception de la realité dans L'Entrèe dans la voie de l'illumination de Santideva
- La légende de Śāntideva
- Le commentaire de Mi-pham au chapitre IX du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva: Échos modernes d'une controverse du XVème siècle
- Madhyamaka Ethics
- Mahasiddhas: La vie de 84 sages de l'Inde
- Making and Remaking the Ultimate in Early Tibetan Readings of Śāntideva
- Mapping the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Masters of Mahāmudrā
- Mental Purification (Blo sbyong): A Native Tibetan Genre of Religious Literature
- Mi pham and the Philosophical Controversies of the Nineteenth Century
- Mindfulness and Ethics: Attention, Virtue and Perfection
- Mindfulness and Moral Transformation: Awakening to Others in Śāntideva's Ethics
- Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness
- 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
- Mādhyamika: Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Nachlese zum Mongolischen Turfanfragment des Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Nichtselbst, Leerheit und Altruistische Ethik im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Lecture Transcript)
- Nichtselbst, Leerheit und Altruistische Ethik im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Official Publication)
- No Time to Lose
- Notes on the Deśanā-ritual in the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Evidence of Its Revision
- Notes on the Interpretation of Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra V.104–106
- Nyubosatsugyō-ron kaisetsu saisho no Shyāntidēva rikai
- Of the Progresse of the Bodhisattva: The Bodhisattvamārga in the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- On Agama and Yukti in Bu ston's Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i 'grel pa
- On Akṣayamati's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
- On Altruism and Rebirth: Philosophical Comments on Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 97-8
- On Another Sūtrasamuccaya
- On Philosophical View of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
- On Prakṛtinirvāṇa-Prakṛtinirvṛta in the Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Study in the Indo-Tibetan Commentarial Tradition
- On the Classification of Śāntideva's Ethics in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- On the Pariṇāmanā Chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- On the Role of Vairocanarakṣita in the Later Transmission Period: A Cross-section of the "Bodhisattva theory" Tradition
- On the Sanskrit Manuscript of the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- On the Textual Problems of Śāntideva's Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra: With Special Reference to Chapter 9 Entitled "Perfection of Wisdom (Prajñāpāramitā)"
- On Śāntideva's Position in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
- One Aspect of the Acceptance of the Bodhisattva-śīla in Tibet
- Perfecting Patience
- Perfecting Wisdom
- Performing Text as Practice: Rdza Dpal sprul's Practice Manual on the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
- Plant Seed, Pull Weed
- Polemics in Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism - A Late 19th-Century Debate Between 'Ju Mi pham and Dpa' ris Rab gsal
- Practicing Wisdom
- Prolegomena to an English Translation of the Sūtrasamuccaya
- 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
- Readings on Yogācāra Buddhism
- Reason and Knowledge on the Path: A Protreptic Reading of the Guide
- Reason, Irrationality and Akrasia (Weakness of the Will) in Buddhism: Reflections upon Śāntideva's Arguments with Himself
- Regional Characteristics of Mongolian Buddhism: A Study on the Basis of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Relocation of the Verses on "The Equality of Self and Others" in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Remarks on Akṣayamati (Blo gros mi zad pa), Being the Author of the Earlier Version of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
- Remarks on an Instance of Intertextuality in the Eleventh Chapter of the Śikṣāsamuccaya and the Phrase Tṛṇagulmauṣadhivanaspati in Buddhist Sūtra Literature
- Remarks on the Philosophical Standpoint of the Anonymous Commentary, Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravyākhyāna(-pañjikā)
- Remarks on the Tabo Manuscript of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
- Reply to Paul Williams
- Resentment and Reality: Buddhism on Moral Responsibility
- Response to Mark Siderits' Review
- Ritual Structure and Material Culture in the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
- Santideva (Indian Antiquary, Vol. 42, 1913)
- Santideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Santideva, un mistico del Buddhismo
- Seeing Sentient Beings: Śāntideva's Moral Phenomenology
- Seeing from All Sides
- Self-Protection through Mindfulness, Śāntideva
- Self-Sceptical Ethics and Selfless Morality: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Overview
- Selfhood and the Metaphysics of Altruism
- Selfless Ethics: The Equality of Non-Existence
- Selflessness and Normativity: Śāntideva and Emptiness Ethics
- Seven Important Points (Marmasthāna) in the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- 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 Bodhisattvacharyavatara: The Way of the Bodhisattva
- Ninth Chapter Analysis
- Shantideva's Teaching
- Shāntideva (Tib. Shi-wa-lha)
- Some New Remarks on the Bodhicaryāvatāra Chapter V
- Spinoza through the Prism of Later 'East-West' Exchanges: Analogues of Buddhist Themes in the Ethics and the Works of Early Spinozists
- Stoics and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual Exercise and Faith in Two Philosophical Traditions
- Stotra, Psychological Conditioning, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Together with a Translation of the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda
- Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra (2000)
- Suffering Made Sufferable: Śāntideva, Dzongkaba, and Modern Therapeutic Approaches to Suffering's Silver Lining
- Suvarṇadvīpa's "Commentaries" on the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Sāntideva, The Bodhicaryāvatāra, Chapter 8 (verses 89-140)
- Taming Śāntideva: Tsongkhapa's Use of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Tangut Texts of the Five Early Translations and the Texts on the Awakening of the Bodhicitta
- Tant que durera l'espace
- Textcritical Notes on Sanskrit Texts: I. Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
- 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 Bodhicittotpādasamādanāvidhi by Jitari
- The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature
- The Bodhisattva Guide
- The Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- The Bodhisattva and the Ideal of Moral Wisdom in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- The Bodistw-a Čari-a Awatar-un Tayilbur of 1312 by Čosgi Odsir
- The Buddhist Roots of Secular Compassion Training: A Comparative Study of Compassion Cultivation in Indian and Tibetan Mahāyāna Sources with the Contemporary Secular Program of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)
- The Case of 'Ju Mi pham (1846–1912) and Dpa' ris Rab gsal (1840–1912): A Study in Dgag lan Debate
- The Case of the Vanishing Poet: New Light on Śāntideva and the Śikṣā-samuccaya
- The Center of the Sunlit Sky
- The Changing Way of the Bodhisattva: Superheroes, Saints, and Social Workers
- The Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature
- The Compassionate Gift of Vice: Śāntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Diss)
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Edelglass
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Tatz
- The Connection between Ontology and Ethics in Madhyamaka Thought
- The Elusive Buddhist Self: Preliminary Reflections on Its Denial
- The Ethics of Mahāyāna Buddhism in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- 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 Meaning of Sugata in the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā
- The Metaphysical Basis of Śāntideva's Ethics
- The Middle Way of the Bodhisattva
- The Original Bodhicaryāvatāra
- The Path of the Bodhisattva
- The Perfection of Wisdom (Schopen)
- The Philosophical Basis of Worship in the Works of Śāntideva
- The Profound Reality of Interdependence
- The Reality of Altruism: Reconstructing Śāntideva, A Review of Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicāryāvatāra, by Paul Williams
- The Reflexive Nature of Awareness (1998)
- The Relationship between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training according to the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- The Resolve to Become a Buddha
- The Role of Solitude (viveka) in the Eighth Chapter (Dhyānapāramitā) of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- 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 Tanjur Bodhicaryāvatāra Auxiliaries: A Few Collected Bibliographical Pointers
- The Training Anthology of Śāntideva
- The Transmission of the Bodhicaryāvatāra: The History, Diffusion, and Influence of a Mahāyāna Buddhist Text
- 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 Way of the Translators: Three Recent Translations of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- The Wisdom Chapter
- 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
- Transcendent Wisdom (1988)
- Two Kinds of Saṃvṛtis in the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā IX 3-8
- Uncommon Happiness
- Uses of the Illusion of Agency: Why Some Buddhists Should Believe in Free Will
- Verses by Śāntideva in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A New English Translation
- Virtues-Pāramitās: St. Ignatius of Loyola and Śāntideva as Companions on the Way of Life
- Virtuous Bodies
- Waking into Compassion: The Three Ālambana of Karuṇā
- What Is It Like to Be a Bodhisattva? Moral Phenomenology in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- What Would a Sage Do?
- Where Does the Cetanic Break Take Place? Weakness of Will in Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Why War? Why Not Peace? Santideva's Answer to Einstein's Famous Question to Freud
- Wisdom: Two Buddhist Commentaries
- Zu einer zentralen philosophischen Kontroverse mit den "orthodoxen" Philosophen
- Zum Bodhisattvacāryāvatārabhāṣya des Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna
- Zum Konzept der Leerheit im BCA
- Ācārya Śantideva's Humanism
- Śikṣāsamuccaya (Anthology of Instruction)
- Śikṣāsamuccaya et Sūtrasamuccaya
- Śāntideva (A Descriptive Bibliography of the Sanskrit Buddhist Literature, Vol. III)
- Śāntideva (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Śāntideva (Karen Lang)
- Śāntideva (Potter Bibliography, 2020)
- Śāntideva (Potter, Kalupahana, and Sweet)
- Śāntideva (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Śāntideva - Bodhicaryāvatāra (2012, Oxford Bibliographies)
- Śāntideva and Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Śāntideva and Kant: An East-West Comparative Study in Ethics
- Śāntideva and an Ethic of Radical Compassion
- Śāntideva and the Bodhisattva Ideal
- Śāntideva and the Moral Psychology of Fear
- 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 Attitude towards Vijñāna Theory
- Śāntideva's Criticism of Vijñānavāda and Bodhicitta
- Śāntideva's Critique of 'I' or Self in the Early and Later Recensions of the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
- Śāntideva's Ethics of Impartial Compassion
- Śāntideva's Impartialist Ethics
- Śāntideva's Philosophy as Expressed in the Early Version of His Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra, Chapter 8
- Śāntideva's Statement about Confession
- Śāntideva, A Mystic of Buddhism
- Śāntideva, Virtue, and Consequentialism
- 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
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Śāntideva (literally “god of peace”) was the name given to an Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist philosopher-monk, known as the author of two texts, the Bodhicaryāvatāra and the Śikṣāsamuccaya. These works both express the ideal of the bodhisattva — the ideal person of Mahāyāna Buddhism. The term Mahāyāna, literally “Great Vehicle,” came into use to mean the idea of attempting to become a bodhisattva (and eventually a buddha) oneself, rather than merely following the teachings set out by Siddhārtha Gautama (considered the original Buddha). This was the earliest usage of the term mahāyāna in Sanskrit, although even by Śāntideva’s time, understandings of what becoming a bodhisattva involved had undergone many changes; the Mahāyāna had come to be understood as a separate school rather than as a vocation (see Nattier 2003; Harrison 1987).
Both of Śāntideva’s texts explore the bodhisattva ideal as an ethical one, in that they prescribe how a person should properly live, and provide reasons for living in that way. Śāntideva’s close attention to ethics makes him relatively unusual among Indian philosophers, for whom metaphysics (or theoretical philosophy more generally) was more typically the primary concern. Śāntideva’s ethical thought is widely known, cited and loved among Tibetan Buddhists, and is increasingly coming to the attention of Western thinkers. Śāntideva’s metaphysics is of interest primarily because of its close connection to his ethics. (Source: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Lele, Amod. "Śāntideva." In Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden. Accessed Feb. 11, 2021. https://iep.utm.edu/santideva/.
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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.
