Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya

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Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue

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Śāntideva's Life and Cultural World

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This important text analyzes the moral theory of the seventh century Indian Mahāyāna master, Śāntideva, author of the well-known religious poem, the Bodhicaryāvatāra (Entering the Path of Enlightenment) as well as the significant, but relatively overlooked, Śikṣāsamuccaya (Compendium of Teachings).

With particular focus on the Śikṣāsamuccaya, this book uses original translations and critical analysis in order to answer the question: How would Śāntideva’s ethics be understood in terms of Western moral theory? Śāntideva’s ethical presuppositions and moral reasoning are illuminated by analyzing his key moral terms and comparing them to other Buddhist principles.

By focusing on a neglected Buddhist Sanskrit text by a major Mahāyāna figure, Barbra R. Clayton helps to redress a significant imbalance in the scholarship on Buddhist ethics, which has - up to now - focused primarily on the ethics of the Pali literature as interpreted in the Theravada tradition. (Source: Routledge)

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Clayton, Barbara R. Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue. Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism. New York: Routledge, 2006. https://archive.org/details/moraltheoryinshantidevasiksasamuccayacultivatingthefruitsofvirtuebarbraclaytonr.routledge_486_r.

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https://www.routledge.com/Moral-Theory-in-Santidevas-Siksasamuccaya-Cultivating-the-Fruits-of-Virtue/Clayton/p/book/9780415599351

Table of contents

- Acknowledgementsxi
- Abbreviationsxiii
- Conventionsxiv

1 Introduction1
- Objectives1
- Method6

2 The text and its author31
- Śāntideva's dates and doctrinal affiliation31
- Śāntideva's life33
- Śāntideva's works36
- The text of the Śikṣāsamuccaya38
- Structure of the Śikṣāsamuccaya39

3 Summary of the Śikṣāsamuccaya41
- Protection42
- Purification51
- Cultivation58

4 Analysis of key moral terms in the Śikṣāsamuccaya67
- Kuśala67
- Śīla72
- Puṇya76
- Puṇya and its problematic "application"80

5 Śāntideva's morality in context89
- Śāntideva's morality90
- Just one moral theory?101

6 Conclusions112
- What kind of moral theory?112
- Is Buddhist morality homogeneous?113

- Appendix I: verses of the Śikṣāsamuccaya119
- Appendix II: titles of works quoted in the Śikṣāsamuccaya127
- Notes130
- Bibliography150
- Index157

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2 Reviews

Osto, Douglas. Review of Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue, by Barbra R. Clayton. Journal of Buddhist Ethics 15 (2008): 63–67. http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/files/2010/05/osto-review.pdf.

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Douglas Osto's review of Barbra Clayton's Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya, published by the Journal of Buddhist Ethics 15 (2008): 63–67.

Goodman, Charles. Review of Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue, by Barbra Clayton. H-Buddhism. April, 2008.

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Charles Goodman's review of Barbra Clayton's Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya, published by H-Net Reviews, April, 2008.

1 Scholarship on

Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Śikṣāsamuccaya [शिक्षासमुच्चय]. bslab pa kun las btus pa [བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ།]. [The Compendium of Training]. Tengyur, RKTST 3281 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3281&typ=2.

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Śikṣāsamuccaya (T. Bslab pa kun las btus pa; C. Dasheng ji pusa xue lun; J. Daijōjū bosatsugakuron; K. Taesǔng chip posal hak non 大乘集菩薩學論). In Sanskrit, "Compendium of Training," a work by the eighth-century Indian Mahāyāna master Śāntideva. It consists of twenty-seven stanzas on the motivation and practice of the bodhisattva, including bodhicitta, the six perfections (pāramitā), the worship of buddhas and bodhisattvas, the benefits of renunciation, and the peace derived from the knowledge of emptiness (śūnyatā). The topic of each of the stanzas receives elaboration in the form of a prose commentary by the author as well as in illustrative passages, often quite extensive, drawn from a wide variety of Mahāyāna sūtras. Some ninety-seven texts are cited in all, many of which have been lost in their original Sanskrit, making the Śikṣāsamuccaya an especially important source for the textual history of Indian Buddhism. These citations also offer a window into which sūtras were known to a Mahāyāna author in eighth-century India. The digest of passages that Śāntideva provides was repeatedly drawn upon by Tibetan authors in their citations of sūtras. Although Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra and Śikṣāsamuccaya both deal with similar topics, the precise relation between the two texts is unclear. Several of the author's verses appear in both texts and some of the sūtra passages from the Śikṣāsamuccaya also appear in the Bodhicaryāvatāra. One passage in the Bodhicaryāvatāra also refers readers to the Śikṣāsamuccaya, but this line does not occur in the Dunhuang manuscript of the text and may be a later interpolation. (Source: "Śikṣāsamuccaya." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 821. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)