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Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Altruism and Reality

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Source Texts of the BCA (Sanskrit)

• A Buddhist 'good life' Theory: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• A Buddhist Carol
• A Comparative of Sanskrit, Tibetan and Mongolian on Prajñāpāramitā Chapter of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (2) (The Commemoration Number Published on the Occasion of the Seventieth Birthday of Professor Ryojun Fuyo)
• A Descriptive Catalogue and Restoration of the Tibetan Language Text of Bodhicaryavatara from Dunhuang Documents
• A Descriptive Catalogue of Sanscrit Manuscripts in the Government Collection
• A Few Good Men
• A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night
• A Great Commentary on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Vol. 1
• A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
• A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (1985)
• A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (1999)
• A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life of Shantideva (2002)
• A Mirror Is for Reflection
• A Note on Mahāyāna Buddhism and the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• A Preliminary Survey of Sanskrit Manuscripts of Madhyamaka Texts Preserved in the Tibet Autonomous Region
• A Response to John Pettit
• A Role for Primordial Wisdom in the Buddhist Free Will Controversy
• A Selfless Response to an Illusory World: A Comparative Study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara
• A Study of Akṣayamati (Śāntideva)'s Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra as Found in the Tibetan Manuscripts From Tun-huang
• A Study of the Dūn-huáng Recension of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati
• Action and Its Result in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• 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 as Antidote to Demagoguery: Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara Chapter 3 as Method for Countering Identity Divisions
• Altruism in the Charnel Ground: Śāntideva and Parfit on Anātman, Reductionism and Benevolence
• An Argument for Cittamātra: Reflections on Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:28 (Tib. 27) cd
• An Index to the Bodhicaryāvatāra Pañjikā, Chapter IX
• An Inquiry into the Relationship between the Śikṣāsamuccaya and the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 9
• Appendix B: Excerpt from A Lamp Completely Illuminating the Profound Reality of Interdependence
• Atiśa's Introduction to the Two Truths, and Its Sources
• Becoming Bodhisattvas
• Bile & Bodhisattvas: Śāntideva on Justified Anger
• 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
• Bodhicaryāvatāra (Minaev)
• Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:2 as a Focus for Tibetan Interpretations of the Two Truths in the Prāsangika Mādhyamika
• Bodhicaryāvatāra and Bodhicaryāvatāra-Pañjikā (Malalasekera)
• Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva (Bhattacharya)
• Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva with the Commentary Pañjikā of Prajñākaramati (1960)
• Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva with the Commentary Pañjikā of Prajñākaramati (1988)
• Bodhicaryāvatāra with Commentary (O'Sullivan)
• Bodhicaryāvatāra-pañjikā VIII.90-103 by Prajñākaramati, Commenting on Śāntideva
• Bodhicaryāvatāra: Governing the Bodhisattvas Way of Life
• Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā: Prajñākaramati's Commentary to the Bodhicaryāvatāra of Çāntideva
• Bodhicitta: Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment
• Bodhisattva e Prajñāpāramitā nel Bodhicaryāvatāra di Śāntideva
• Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
• Bouddhisme, études et matériaux: Ādikarmapradīpa, Bodhicaryāvatāraṭīkā (La Vallée Poussin 1898)
• Buddha Mind - Christ Mind
• Buddhism as Reductionism: Personal Identity and Ethics in Parfitian Readings of Buddhist Philosophy
• From Steven Collins to the Present
• Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Conventional Truth: Path and Transformation
• Buddhist Mereological Analysis in the Milindapañhā, Vasubandhu's Twenty Verses, and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Buddhist Texts Through the Ages
• Built on Emptiness: Śūnyatā as a Basis for Mahāyāna Ethics, With References to Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa 'jug pa (2007, mtsho sngon)
• Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang)
• Can We Kill Illusory People? Some Philosophical Reflections on Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra 9:11-13ab
• Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Possession of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hodgson Collection)
• Catalogue of the Tibetan Manuscripts from Tun-huang in the India Office Library
• Compassion and the Net of Indra
• Compassion as a Matter of Fact: The Argument from No-Self to Selflessness in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
• Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism
• Compassion in Our Day: Learning from Shantideva
• Compassion in Schopenhauer and Śāntideva
• Conclusion: The Socratic Paradigm
• Consequences of Compassion
• Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics-Review by Meyers
• Consequentialism, Agent-Neutrality, and Mahāyāna Ethics
• Consequentialism, Particularism, and the Emptiness of Persons: A Response to Vishnu Sridharan
• Cooking Living Beings: The Transformative Effects of Encounters with Bodhisattva Bodies
• Courageous Compassion
• Critique of Self in the Early and Later Versions of the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• Cultivating Bodhicitta: Wisdom and Compassion in Śāntideva's Introduction to the Awakened Life
• Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara)
• Der Mahāyāna-Buddhismus nach Sanskrit und Prākrittexten
• Did Śāntideva Destroy the Bodhisattva Path?
• Die Aufnahme des Erleuchtungsgeistes: Eine Übersetzung von Prajñākaramatis Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā 3.1-19
• Die Lehre von Satyadvaya in 'Ju Mi phams Nor bu ke ta ka
• Die lHan kar ma
• Die zwei Wahrheiten
• Die zwei Wirklichkeiten
• Discourses on Bodhicharyāvatāra
• Does "Buddhist Ethics" Exist?
• Does Anātman Rationally Entail Altruism? On Bodhicaryāvatāra 8:101-103
• Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
• Emptiness and Moral Perfection
• Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior
• Engaging in the Bodhisattva Deeds
• Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
• Entering the Path of Enlightenment
• Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva: A New Translation and Contemporary Guide
• Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva
• Ethics (Garfield)
• Ethics and the Subversion of Conceptual Reification in Lévinas and Śāntideva
• Ethics in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
• Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism
• Experience and Morality: Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology
• Extreme Giving: The Vessantara Jātaka and Shantideva's A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
• Following in the Buddha's Footsteps
• For the Benefit of All Beings
• Freedom from Responsibility: Agent-Neutral Consequentialism and the Bodhisattva Ideal
• From Madhyamaka to Consequentialism: A Road Map
• Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Bodhicaryavatara): A Commentary by Geshe Tenzin Zopa
• Guide to the Good Life
• Healing Anger
• How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)
• Hume as a Western Mādhyamika: The Case from Ethics
• Identifying the Object of Negation: On Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:140 (Tib. 139)
• Indian Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy after Nagarjuna, Vol. 2
• Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva's Cultivation of Compassion
• Introduction to Gzhan gyis brtsad pa'i lan mdor bsdus pa rigs lam rab gsal de nyid snang byed: An Answer to Blo-bzang-rab-gsal's Refutation of the Author's 'Sher le nor bu ke ta ka' and Its Defence, the Brgal lan nyin byed snang ba
• Iti als Adverbialbilder
• Jitāri, Śāntideva and Prabhākarakīrti
• La conception de la realité dans L'Entrèe dans la voie de l'illumination de Santideva
• Le commentaire de Mi-pham au chapitre IX du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva: Échos modernes d'une controverse du XVème siècle
• Madhyamaka Ethics
• Making and Remaking the Ultimate in Early Tibetan Readings of Śāntideva
• Mi pham and the Philosophical Controversies of the Nineteenth Century
• Mindfulness and Moral Transformation: Awakening to Others in Śāntideva's Ethics
• Moderation or the Middle Way: Two Approaches to Anger
• Moonpaths: Ethics and Emptiness
• Moral Pluralism, Skillful Means, and Environmental Ethics
• Mādhyamika: Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Nichtselbst, Leerheit und Altruistische Ethik im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Lecture Transcript)
• Nichtselbst, Leerheit und Altruistische Ethik im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Official Publication)
• No Time to Lose
• Notes on the Deśanā-ritual in the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Evidence of Its Revision
• Notes on the Interpretation of Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra V.104–106
• Nyubosatsugyō-ron kaisetsu saisho no Shyāntidēva rikai
• On Agama and Yukti in Bu ston's Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa'i 'grel pa
• On Akṣayamati's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• On Altruism and Rebirth: Philosophical Comments on Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 97-8
• On Learning to Overhear the "Vanishing Poet"
• On Philosophical View of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• On Prakṛtinirvāṇa-Prakṛtinirvṛta in the Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Study in the Indo-Tibetan Commentarial Tradition
• On the Classification of Śāntideva's Ethics in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• On the Role of Vairocanarakṣita in the Later Transmission Period: A Cross-section of the "Bodhisattva theory" Tradition
• On the Sanskrit Manuscript of the Śikṣāsamuccaya
• On the Textual Problems of Śāntideva's Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra: With Special Reference to Chapter 9 Entitled "Perfection of Wisdom (Prajñāpāramitā)"
• On Śāntideva's Position in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
• Patience and Perspective
• Patience: A Guide to Shantideva's Sixth Chapter (Zopa 2020)
• Peaceful Heart
• Perfecting Patience
• Perfecting Wisdom
• Polemics in Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism - A Late 19th-Century Debate Between 'Ju Mi pham and Dpa' ris Rab gsal
• Practicing Wisdom
• Prajñākaramati on Śāntideva's Case Against Anger: A Translation of Bodhicaryāvatāra-pañjikā VI.1-69
• Preliminary Survey of Sanskrit Manuscripts of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
• Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice-Review by Harris
• Readings on Yogācāra Buddhism
• 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 Akṣayamati (Blo gros mi zad pa), Being the Author of the Earlier Version of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• Remarks on the Philosophical Standpoint of the Anonymous Commentary, Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravyākhyāna(-pañjikā)
• Remarks on the Tabo Manuscript of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• René Girard, Śāntideva, and the Emptiness of Desire
• Reply to Paul Williams
• Resentment and Reality: Buddhism on Moral Responsibility
• Response to Mark Siderits' Review
• Santideva (Indian Antiquary, Vol. 42, 1913)
• Santideva's Bodhicharyavatara (Weeraratne)
• Seeing Sentient Beings: Śāntideva's Moral Phenomenology
• Self-Sceptical Ethics and Selfless Morality: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Overview
• Selfhood and the Metaphysics of Altruism
• Selfless Ethics: The Equality of Non-Existence
• Selflessness and Normativity: Śāntideva and Emptiness Ethics
• Shantideva and Bodhicaryavatara: A Close Reading
• Shantideva and Friends
• Shantideva's Bodhisattvacharyavatara: The Way of the Bodhisattva
• Ninth Chapter Analysis
• Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 4
• Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 5
• Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 6
• Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 7
• Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 8
• Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 1
• Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 2
• Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 3
• Some New Remarks on the Bodhicaryāvatāra Chapter V
• Spinoza through the Prism of Later 'East-West' Exchanges: Analogues of Buddhist Themes in the Ethics and the Works of Early Spinozists
• Stoics and Bodhisattvas: Spiritual Exercise and Faith in Two Philosophical Traditions
• Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra (2000)
• Sur l'océan du Mahayana
• Sāntideva, The Bodhicaryāvatāra, Chapter 8 (verses 89-140)
• Tant que durera l'espace
• Testi Buddhisti in Sanscrito
• Textcritical Notes on Sanskrit Texts: I. Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• The Absence of Self and the Removal of Pain: How Śāntideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path
• The Awakening Mind (Tsering 2008)
• The Beautiful Way of Life
• The Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Guide to the Buddhist Path to Awakening
• The Bodhisattva Guide
• The Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• The Bodhisattva and the Ideal of Moral Wisdom in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
• The Case of 'Ju Mi pham (1846–1912) and Dpa' ris Rab gsal (1840–1912): A Study in Dgag lan Debate
• The Center of the Sunlit Sky
• The Compassionate Gift of Vice: Śāntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty
• The Connection between Ontology and Ethics in Madhyamaka Thought
• The Elusive Buddhist Self: Preliminary Reflections on Its Denial
• The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
• The Ethics of Mahāyāna Buddhism in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• 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 Meaning of Sugata in the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā
• The Metaphysical Basis of Śāntideva's Ethics
• The Middle Way of the Bodhisattva
• The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech
• The Original Bodhicaryāvatāra
• The Path of Light (1909)
• The Path of Light (1959)
• The Philosophical Basis of Worship in the Works of Śāntideva
• The Profound Reality of Interdependence
• The Profound Reality of Interdependence-Review by Bouthillette
• The Reality of Altruism: Reconstructing Śāntideva, A Review of Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicāryāvatāra, by Paul Williams
• The Reflexive Nature of Awareness (1998)
• The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal (1882)
• The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal (1971)
• 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 Awakening
• The Way of the Bodhisattva (1997)
• The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
• The Wisdom Chapter
• The Śāntideva Passage: Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII.90–103
• Theory and Comparison in the Discussion of Buddhist Ethics
• Tibetisch-Sanskritischer Index zum Bodhicaryāvatāra (Weller 1952)
• Traces of Consequentialism and Non-Consequentialism in Bodhisattva Ethics
• Transcendent Wisdom (2009)
• Two Kinds of Saṃvṛtis in the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā IX 3-8
• Uncommon Happiness
• Uses of the Illusion of Agency: Why Some Buddhists Should Believe in Free Will
• Waking into Compassion: The Three Ālambana of Karuṇā
• What Is It Like to Be a Bodhisattva? Moral Phenomenology in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Where Does the Cetanic Break Take Place? Weakness of Will in Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Why War? Why Not Peace? Santideva's Answer to Einstein's Famous Question to Freud
• Wisdom: Two Buddhist Commentaries
• Zu einer zentralen philosophischen Kontroverse mit den "orthodoxen" Philosophen
• Zum Konzept der Leerheit im BCA
• Ācārya Śantideva's Humanism
• Ācārya Śāntideva kā Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Śāntideva (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Śāntideva (Karen Lang)
• Śāntideva (Potter, Kalupahana, and Sweet)
• Śāntideva (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Śāntideva and Kant: An East-West Comparative Study in Ethics
• Śāntideva and an Ethic of Radical Compassion
• Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Śāntideva in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
• Śāntideva's Attitude towards Vijñāna Theory
• Śāntideva's Criticism of Vijñānavāda and Bodhicitta
• Śāntideva's Critique of 'I' or Self in the Early and Later Recensions of the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• Śāntideva's Ethics of Impartial Compassion
• Śāntideva's Impartialist Ethics
• Śāntideva's Philosophy as Expressed in the Early Version of His Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra, Chapter 8
• Śāntideva, Virtue, and Consequentialism
• Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles
• Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles-Review by Cabezón
• Śāntidēva's Bodhicharyāvatāra

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This volume brings together Paul Williams's previously published papers on the Indian and Tibetan interpretations of selected verses from the eighth and ninth chapters of the Bodhicaryāvatāra. In addition there is a much longer version of the paper "Identifying the Object of Negation" and nearly half the book consists of a wholly new essay, "The Absence of Self and the Removal of Pain," subtitled "How Śāntideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path." In this paper Williams seeks to engage in a critical way with some central

issues of Buddhist thought relating to the coherence of a reductionist model of the person. He argues for an irreducible subject-involvement of pain statements and suggests that given an approach to the person explicitly avowed in the Bodhicaryāvatāra it becomes impossible to make sense of subject-involvement, and thus of the removal of pain which is central to the path to Buddhahood.
      Paul Williams approaches selected verses from the Bodhicaryāvatāra in the light of all the extant Indian commentaries available as well as many indigenous Tibetan commentaries from all Tibetan traditions. He is thus able to indicate varieties and shifting patterns of interpretation and influence, showing how the Bodhicaryāvatāra comes to be used by the different Tibetan traditions according to their differing overall religious and philosophical agendas.
      This book will be of interest to those concerned with the history and interpretation of Indian and Tibetan philosophy, particularly Madhyamaka, the detailed study of the text of the Bodhicaryāvatāra, and also those whose interest is primarily with philosophical issues relating to the person, the philosophy of rebirth, and to the relationship between ethics and Madhyamaka ontology. (Source: inside flap)

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Williams, Paul. Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Altruism and Reality. 1st Indian ed. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000. First Published 1998 by Curzon Press (London).

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Table of contents

• Prefaceix
• Acknowledgementsxii
• 1 On PRAKṚTINIRVĀṆA/PRAKṚTINIRVṚTA IN THE BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 1
  • 1 Indian Commentaries3

• • 2 Tibetan Commentaries4
  • BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 9:13 (TIB. 13CD/14AB) (AB)5
  • BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 9:104CD (TIB. 103CD)12
  • BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 9:111 (TIB. 110)15
  • BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 9:35 (TIB. 34)21

• 2 ON ALTRUISM AND REBIRTH29
  • BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 8:9730
  • BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 8:9839

• 3 AN ARGUMENT FOR CITTAMĀTRA52
  • 53

• 4 IDENTIFYING THE OBJECT OF NEGATION64

• • Introduction64
  • BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 9:140 (TIB. 139) AB65

• • The Pūrvapakṣa - Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:139 (TIB. 138)68
  • BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 9:139 (TIB. 138)68

• • Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:140 - (I) Prajñākaramati's response75
  • BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 9:140 (TIB. 139)55

• • Bodhicaryavatara 9:140 - (Il) Some Tibetan comments80
  • BODHICARYĀVATĀRA 9:141 (TIB. 140)93
  • Conclusions99

• 5 THE ABSENCE OF SELF AND THE REMOVAL OF PAIN104
  • 1 Bodhicaryāvataara 8:101-3105
  • 2 Ontology107
  • 3 Continuants and Collectives112
  • 4 Wholes Simply do not Exist115
  • 5 Conceptual Existents, Artefacts and Natural Kinds119
  • 6 Time, Change and the Identity of a Continuant124
  • 7 The Continuant/Collective Model and the Unity of the Person130
  • 8 Korsakov's Syndrome - a Relevant Digression137
  • 9 The Need for a Subject140
  • 10 Unity and the Self144
  • 11 On Pain153
    • (i) There are no such things as pains, only subjects hurting155
    • (ii) Pains as events158
    • (iii) Without subjects there can be no identification and individuation of pains160
  • 12 Conclusion: How Śāntideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path164

• NOTES177
• Bibliography211
• Index258

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Williams, Paul. Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra. Richmond, Surrey, England: Curzon Press, 1998. https://archive.org/details/altruismandrealitystudiesinthephilosophyofbodhicaryaavatarapaulwilliamsseemahayanbuddhism_957_u/mode/2up.

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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.བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།

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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.བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་འདི་ནི་དཔལ་ན་ལེནྡྲའི་པཎྜི་ཏ་ཆེན་པོ་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཞི་བ་ལྷས་ (དུས་རབས་ ༨ ་པ་) མཛད་པ་ཡིན་ཅིང་། གཞུང་འདིར་ཐོག་མར་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མ་སྐྱེས་པ་སྐྱེ་བར་བྱེད་པའི་ལེའུ་གསུམ། བར་དུ་སྐྱེས་པ་མི་ཉམས་པར་བྱེད་པའི་ལེའུ་གསུམ། མཐར་མི་ཉམས་པར་གོང་ནས་གོང་དུ་འཕེལ་བྱེད་པའི་ལེའུ་གསུམ་དང་། རྗེས་བསྔོ་བའི་ལེའུ་གཅིག་བཅས་བསྡོམས་ལེའུ་བཅུའི་བདག་ཉིད་ཅན། ལམ་ཕར་ཕྱིན་དྲུག་ལ་བསླབ་པའི་ཉམས་ཁྲིད་ཀྱི་ཚུལ་དུ་གསུངས་ཡོད། འདི་ལ་རྒྱ་བོད་མཁས་པས་མཛད་པའི་ཚིག་འགྲེལ་དང་དོན་འགྲེལ། མཆན་འགྲེལ་དང་དཀའ་འགྲེལ། དོགས་གཅོད་དང་གཏམ་རྒྱུད། སྤྱི་དོན་དང་བསྡུས་དོན། སྨོན་ལམ་དང་བརྒྱུད་འདེབས་སོགས་གཞུང་རྒྱས་བསྡུས་བརྒྱ་ལས་བརྒལ་བ་ཡོད་ལ། འཆད་ཉན་སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་དང་ཁྱབ་སྤེལ་ཕྱོགས་མེད་དུ་བྱུང་ཞིང་། སྐད་ཡིག་མི་འདྲ་བ་ ༢༠ ་ལྷག་པར་འགྱུར་ཡོད་་ཅིང་། གཞུང་འདིར་གསུངས་པའི་བྱང་སེམས་དང་བློ་སྦྱོང་གི་མན་ངག་རྣམས་ལ། ཚིག་དོན་གོ་སླ་ཞིང་ཉམས་ལེན་གྱི་གནད་ལ་བརྡེག་པའི་ཁྱད་ཆོས་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ཚུལ་ཡང་། སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་རྫ་དཔལ་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེས། གོ་སླ་མན་ངག་གནད་དུ་བརྡེག་པའི་ཆོས།། སྤྱོད་འཇུག་གཞུང་འདྲ་རྒྱ་བོད་གཉིས་ཆར་མེད།། འདི་ལ་མ་བརྟེན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཇི་ལྟར་ཡོད།། ཅེས་བསྔགས་ཤིང་། ཆུ་བརྒྱ་ཟམ་པ་གཅིག་གི་འོག་ཏུ་འཚུད་པ་ལྟ་བུའི་གཞུང་བཟང་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཞེས་བསྟོད་པའི་མེ་ཏོག་མངོན་པར་གཏོར་བས་ཀྱང་མཚོན་པ་ཡིན་ནོ།།

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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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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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt मध्यमक  Tib དབུ་མ་  Ch 中觀見  

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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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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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