Shantideva's Entering The Conduct of a Bodhisatva

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Shantideva's Entering The Conduct of a Bodhisatva: With an Interspersed Commentary Called "A Lamp for the Middle Way" by Drukchen Padma Karpo

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This book is in two parts. The first part is the complete text of Entering the Conduct of a Bodhisatva, a very famous text composed by the Indian Buddhist master Śhāntideva [8th century CE]. The second part is an excellent Tibetan commentary to Śhāntideva's text entitled Entering the Conduct of a Bodhisatva with an Interspersed Commentary Called "A Lamp for the Path of the Middle Way", composed by the Tibetan Buddhist master Padma Karpo [1527–1592 CE]. (Duff, introduction, v)

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Duff, Tony (Padma Karpo Translation Committee), trans. Shantideva's Entering The Conduct of a Bodhisatva: With an Interspersed Commentary Called "A Lamp for the Middle Way" by Drukchen Padma Karpo. 2nd ed. Kathmandu, Nepal: Padma Karpo Translation Committee, 2021.

Table of contents

• INTRODUCTIONv

• PART ONE: ŚHĀNTIDEVA’S ENTERING THE CONDUCT OF A BODHISATVA1
  • Chapter 1: The Benefits of Enlightenment Mind3
  • Chapter 2: Laying Aside Evil Deeds9
  • Chapter 3: Fully Adopting the Enlightenment Mind17
  • Chapter 4: Heedfulness21
  • Chapter 5: Guarding Alertness27
  • Chapter 6: Patience41
  • Chapter 7: Perseverance59
  • Chapter 8: Meditative Concentration69
  • Chapter 9: Prajñā91
  • Chapter 10: Dedication117

• PART TWO: ENTERING THE CONDUCT OF A BODHISATVA WITH AN INTERSPERSED COMMENTARY CALLED "A LAMP
  FOR THE PATH OF THE MIDDLE WAY" BY DRUKCHEN PADMA KARPO125
  • Preface:127
  • Chapter 1: The Benefits of Enlightenment Mind131
  • Chapter 2: Laying Aside Evil Deeds157
  • Chapter 3: Fully Adopting the Enlightenment Mind177
  • Chapter 4: Heedfulness191
  • Chapter 5: Guarding Alertness203
  • Chapter 6: Patience231
  • Chapter 7: Perseverance263
  • Chapter 8: Meditative Concentration281
  • Chapter 9: Prajñā317
  • Chapter 10: Dedication381

• GLOSSARY OF TERMS391
• INDEX407

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2 Full translation of

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.

Drukchen, 4th (pad+ma dkar po) (པདྨ་དཀར་པོ་). spyod 'jug gi 'bru 'grel dbu ma'i lam gyi sgron ma [སྤྱོད་འཇུག་གི་འབྲུ་འགྲེལ་དབུ་མའི་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲོན་མ།]. [Torch for the Path of the Middle Way: A Syllable-by-Syllable Commentary on Entering into the Conduct [of the Bodhisattva.]]

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This is mainly a word commentary (tshig 'grel) with a topical outline (sa bcad).

Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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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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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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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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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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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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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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