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Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
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Reiko Ohnuma
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Paul M. Harrison
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Jonathan C. Gold
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Bronwyn Finnigan
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John Dunne
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Douglas Duckworth
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Jay L. Garfield
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Janet Gyatso
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Thupten Jinpa
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Roger R. Jackson
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Amber Carpenter
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Eric Huntington
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Charles Goodman
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Sonam Kachru
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Matthew Kapstein
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Columbia University Press
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Śāntideva’s eighth-century work, the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryāvatāra), is known for its eminently practical instructions and its psychologically vivid articulations of the Mahāyāna path. It is a powerful, succinct poem into which are woven diverse Buddhist traditions of moral transformation, meditative cultivation, and philosophical insight. Since its composition, it has seen continuous use as a ritual, contemplative, and philosophical manual, making it one of the crucial texts of the Buddhist ethical and philosophical tradition.

This book serves as a companion to this Indian Buddhist classic. The fifteen essays contained here illuminate the Guide’s many philosophical, literary, ritual, and ethical dimensions. Distinguished scholars discuss the historical significance of the text as an innovative piece of Indian literature, illuminate the important roles it played in shaping Buddhism in Tibet, and bring to light its contemporary significance for philosophy and psychology. Whether experienced or first-time students of Buddhist literature, readers will find compelling new approaches to this resonant masterpiece. (Source: Columbia University Press)

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Gold, Jonathan C., and Douglas S. Duckworth, eds. Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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https://cup.columbia.edu/book/readings-of-sntidevas-guide-to-bodhisattva-practice/9780231192675
Table of contents
  • A Note to the Readerix
  • Acknowledgmentsxi
  • Appendix 1: A Guide to Guide Translations: Advice for Students and Instructors253
  • Appendix 2: Index of Guide Verses Cited257
  • Bibliography271
  • Contributors285
  • Index291
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Kapstein, Matthew T. "An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 9." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 84–98. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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This chapter in Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice concerns Śāntideva's understanding of emptiness as articulated in the ninth chapter of the Bodhicaryāvatāra.
Jinpa, Thupten. "Bodhicaryāvatāra and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong)." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 146–61. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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Thupten Jinpa analyzes the complex relationship between the Bodhicaryāvatāra and lojong (mind training) and how the Guide may have shaped lojong's development.
Ohnuma, Reiko. "Bodies and Embodiment in the Bodhicaryāvatāra." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 114–31. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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Investigates the notion of "embodiment" in the Bodhicaryāvatāra in the sense of the physical bodies involved in the attainment of buddhahood and attitudes toward the body.
Dunne, John D. "Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva's Cultivation of Compassion." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 235–51. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. https://centerhealthyminds.org/assets/files-publications/dunne-innate-connectivity.pdf.
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John Dunne argues that for Śāntideva the cultivation of compassion is a matter of disrupting the cognitive models that inhibit the innate capacity to sense and respond to all suffering.
Kachru, Sonam. "On Learning to Overhear the 'Vanishing Poet'." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 60–83. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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In this chapter Sonam Kachru offers a tentative orientation to the Bodhicaryāvatāra as literature, focussing particularly on verses from chapter 8.
Carpenter, Amber. "Reason and Knowledge on the Path: A Protreptic Reading of the Guide." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 45–59. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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Amber Carpenter illustrates how the Bodhicaryāvatāra may be read as a protreptic text—that is, it does something to the audience, reorienting us toward a comprehension of reality.
Huntington, Eric. "Ritual Structure and Material Culture in the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 132–45. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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This chapter by Eric Huntington investigates the overall ritual structure of the Bodhicaryāvatāra and describes material practices that correspond to specific passages.
Garfield, Jay L. "Seeing Sentient Beings: Śāntideva's Moral Phenomenology." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold, and Douglas S. Duckworth, 192–208. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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Explores the idea moral phenomenology and Santideva's account of moral cultivation, the uses of moral phenomenology, and the bodhisattva vows in the contemporary world.
Gyatso, Janet. "Seeing from All Sides." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 99–113. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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Janet Gyatso explores Śāntideva's presentation of exchanging oneself with another, focusing upon his literary strategies to create in his readers the capacity to perform this practice.
Jackson, Roger. "Taming Śāntideva: Tsongkhapa's Use of the Bodhicaryāvatāra." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 162–79. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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In this chapter Roger Jackson examines Tsongkhapa's treatment of the Bodhicaryāvatāra in his 1402 magnum opus, The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Awakening.
Duckworth, Douglas S. "The Middle Way of the Bodhisattva." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 180–91. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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Douglas Duckworth discusses the role and implications of "existing on its own" as the main principle guiding Künzang Sönam's interpretation of the Bodhicaryāvatāra.
Finnigan, Bronwyn. "Śāntideva and the Moral Psychology of Fear." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 221–34. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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Examines verses in BCA chaps. 2 and 7 aimed at inciting fear and argues this is done with an aim of transforming egoistic self-concern into altruistic self-other concern.
Goodman, Charles. "Śāntideva's Ethics of Impartial Compassion." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 209–20. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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In this chapter Charles Goodman attempts to ascertain where Śāntideva's ethical views might fit in the space of ethical theories that are defended today.
Harrison, Paul. "Śāntideva: The Author and His Project." In Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth, 27–44. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
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Paul Harrison argues that the Bodhicaryāvatāra and the Śikṣāsamuccaya serve a common agenda, and that neither work can be fully understood independently of the other.
1 Reviews
Harris, Stephen. Review of Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth. Journal of Buddhist Ethics 27 (2020): 169–75. http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/files/2020/06/Harris_Review_of_Gold_Duckworth_Readings_of_Santideva.pdf.
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Stephen Harris's review of Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, edited by Jonathan C. Gold and Douglas S. Duckworth. Published in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics.
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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Bodhicaryāvatāra [बोधिचर्यावतार]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [The Way of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3216 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3216&typ=2.
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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.



Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Bodhicaryāvatāra [बोधिचर्यावतार]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [The Way of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3216 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3216&typ=2.

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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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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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Pāramitā - The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, aspirations, power, and pristine wisdom are added to them to make ten perfections. Skt पारमिता  Tib ཕར་ཕྱིན།;ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།  Ch 波羅蜜  

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Pāramitā - The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, aspirations, power, and pristine wisdom are added to them to make ten perfections. Skt पारमिता  Tib ཕར་ཕྱིན།;ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།  Ch 波羅蜜  

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Ātman - Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena. Skt आत्मन्  Tib བདག་  Ch 我;灵魂  

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