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The Path of the Bodhisattva
Chapter in a Book
- 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 the Ṡikṣasamuccaya of Āchārya Shāntideva
- A Summons to Buddhahood: The Bodhicaryavatara as Santideva's Call to Embrace the Bodhicitta
- 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
- 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
- Buddha Mind - Christ Mind
- Camino al Despertar
- Compassion as a Matter of Fact: The Argument from No-Self to Selflessness in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- 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
- 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
- General Introduction: Śāntideva and His World
- Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108
- La légende de Śāntideva
- 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
- 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 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 (Nariman)
- Shantideva and Bodhicaryavatara: A Close Reading
- The Absence of Self and the Removal of Pain: How Śāntideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path
- The Bodhi-caryâvatāra and Its Monastic Aspects: On the Problem of Representation
- 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 Changing Way of the Bodhisattva: Superheroes, Saints, and Social Workers
- 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 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 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 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 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
- 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
There is an interesting description of the meaning of bodhicitta in this short article in relation to generosity:
While dāna, the typical word for the virtue of generosity, indicates as much the giving of some thing to another as the state of mind with which one gives, bodhicitta is specifically a mental quality. It is, indeed, the mental quality sine qua non. Literally translated as something like ‘awakened mind’ or ‘enlightenment-mind’, bodhicitta is a mental state of aliveness to suffering (the first Noble Truth) as an active concern to eliminate it. Before one has understood suffering so as to eradicate it, bodhicitta is the firm aspiration to attain this state. Bodhicitta also names this state once fully realized, or perfected. True generosity is the enlightenment-mind dedicated to giving happiness and relief from suffering to all beings. Śāntideva begins by recommending this quality of attention to us as an aspiration, and then describes its benefits – and the harms of its absence – so as to cultivate within the reader a firm commitment to bodhicitta. (Carpenter, page 227)
No abstract given. Here are the first relevant paragraphs:
Like most Buddhist philosophers, Śāntideva (685–763 CE) was also a Buddhist practitioner and teacher. And like many prominent Buddhist practitioner-thinkers, his life attracted a great deal of legend and myth, so that it is difficult retrospectively to distinguish the history from the story. But Śāntideva's story is worth retelling, for it gives us a sense of the spirit in which later readers would pick up his most beloved composition, the Bodhicāryāvatāra (Introduction to the Conduct of the Bodhisattva). (Carpenter, para 1, 224–25)
Citation
Carpenter, Amber D. "The Path of the Bodhisattva." In Indian Buddhist Philosophy: Metaphysics as Ethics, 224–31. London: Routledge, 2014.
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