The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism

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The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism: papers presented at the Calgary Buddhism Conference, Sept. 18 - 21, 1978. SR Supplements.

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In order to investigate what current research in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese materials could contribute to the study of the Bodhisattva doctrine, the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary planned a conference around the theme of the Bodhisattva. The papers presented in this volume were first read and discussed at the conference in 1978.

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Kawamura, Leslie. ed. The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism: papers presented at the Calgary Buddhism Conference, Sept. 18 - 21, 1978. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1981.

Table of contents

Prefacev
The Contributorsvii
Introductionxi

Inaugural Address

The Relevance of the Bodhisattva Concept for Today
- Peter Slater1

India

The Evolution of the Concept of the Bodhisattva
- Arthur L. Basham19
The Bodhisattva Returns to This World
- Gadjin M. Nagao61

Tibet

Influence of the Bodhisattva Doctrine on Tibetan Political History
- Turrell V. Wylie81
The View of Bodhicitta in Tibetan Buddhism
- Lobsang Dargyay95
Bodhisattva The Ethical Phase in Evolution
- Herbert V. Guenther111

China

The Bodhisattva Idea in Chinese Literature: Typology and Significance
- Yūn-hua Jan125
The Bodhisattva Concept: A Study of the Chinese Buddhist Canon
- Lewis E. Lancaster153

Japan

The Bodhisattva Doctrine as Conceived and Developed by the Founders of the New Sects in the Heian and Kamakura Periods
- Hisao Inagaki165
Japan's New Religions (1945-65): Secularization or Spiritualization?
- Minoru Kiyota193
The Myōkōnin: Japan's Representation of the Bodhisattva
- Leslie S. Kawamura223
Index238

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Dargay, Lobsang. "The View of Bodhicitta in Tibetan Buddhism." In The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism, edited by Leslie S. Kawamura, 95–109. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1981.

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One of the great French Buddhologists Louis de la Vallée Poussin, has said: "The entire career of a Bodhisattva is to think about bodhi."

The structure of this "thought of bodhi" is twofold: firstly the wish to attain bodhi (saṃbodhi-kāmanā-sahagatā), secondly there is the motivation to aspire bodhi for the benefit of all sentient beings (parārthālambanā) alone. However, I do not wish to discuss the altruistic motivation for aspiring bodhi but should rather confine the topic of my paper to bodhicitta in the sense of being the mind directed towards bodhi.

The phenomenology of bodhicitta has been the topic of discussion of many Indian Buddhist scholars. Within philosophical traditions such as the Mādhyamika, different theories are expounded. When the Tibetan scholars, from the seventh century onward, became acquainted with Buddhism, they confronted various diverse theories and had to come to a conclusion for themselves as to how they were to interpret bodhicitta and cittotpāda that were formulated by the Indian masters.

The approach of a Tibetan scholar differs widely from the approach of a Western scholar who wants to know exactly what a single Indian or Tibetan master has said and what induced him to utter his thoughts and ideas just in the way he did.

In this paper, I wish to demonstrate the Tibetan discussion of bodhicitta and how the Tibetans strived to harmonize the divergent views on bodhicitta.