A Short Presentation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
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A Short Presentation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
Journal Article
- 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 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 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 Inquiry into the Relationship between the Śikṣāsamuccaya and the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
- 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 and Bodhicaryāvatāra-Pañjikā (Malalasekera)
- Bodhicitta and Bodhisattva: A Study of the Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva
- 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 on the sPyod 'jug (Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra)
- Buddha Mind - Christ Mind
- Buddha's Lions
- Buddhist Texts Through the Ages
- Camino al Despertar
- 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?
- Die "Vollkommenheiten" im BCA und seinen tibetischen Kommentaren
- 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
- Epitome of the Bodhicaryāvatāra with Its Pañjikā, Chap. IX
- 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
- Notes on the Deśanā-ritual in the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Evidence of Its Revision
- Notes on the Interpretation of Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra V.104–106
- Of the Progresse of the Bodhisattva: The Bodhisattvamārga in the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- On Akṣayamati's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
- On Another Sūtrasamuccaya
- On the Pariṇāmanā Chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Reply to Paul Williams
- Response to Mark Siderits' Review
- Santideva (Indian Antiquary, Vol. 42, 1913)
- Santideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Santideva, un mistico del Buddhismo
- Seeing Sentient Beings: Śāntideva's Moral Phenomenology
- 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 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 Path: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- The Bodhisattva and the Ideal of Moral Wisdom in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- 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 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 Relationship between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training according to the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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
- Śikṣāsamuccaya (Anthology of Instruction)
- Śikṣāsamuccaya et Sūtrasamuccaya
- 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
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Description
The Bodhicaryāvatāra (BCA) is a Buddhist text dealing with the spiritual practice of the aspirant to awakening (bodhisattva). It has been composed by Śāntideva, a Buddhist philosopher and teacher who lived in India around the 8th century. As the BCA occupies a respectable position within the corpus of spiritual literature of the world, it is comparable to similar works of other religious traditions, for example, Thomas à Kempis' De imitatione Christi. Consequently, the BCA, in addition to exposing the main philosophical points of one of the most important schools of Buddhism, is also a practical guide that can serve as a basis of comparison between the major spiritual traditions of the world and even be a source of inspiration for all spiritual seekers, no matter their religious or philosophical affiliation. After having provided a summary of the life of its author and some details about the history and structure of the BCA, the present essay introduces and discusses, in a way that is accessible to non-Buddhists, the significance of the main themes and ideas of this important spiritual manual of the Buddhism.
Citation
Brassard, Francis. "A Short Presentation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra." RIThink 8 (2019): 1–16. http://www.rithink.hr/archive/2019/1_Brassard_(RIThink).pdf.
Interconnections
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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.
Categories:
- Library Items
- Articles
- Brassard, F.
- Topic: Śāntideva's Life
- Topic: The Excellence of Bodhicitta
- Topic: Confession
- Topic: Taking Hold of Bodhicitta
- Topic: Carefulness
- Topic: Vigilant Introspection
- Topic: Perfection of Patience
- Topic: Perfection of Diligence
- Topic: Perfection of Concentration
- Topic: Perfection of Wisdom
- Topic: Dedication of Merit
- Decade: 2010s
