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The Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra
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- A Critical Study of Ācārya Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
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- A Note on Mahāyāna Buddhism and the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Response to John Pettit
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- A Study of the Ṡikṣasamuccaya of Āchārya Shāntideva
- Akṣayamati's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra as Found in the Tibetan Manuscripts from Dūn-huáng
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- Altruism and Reality-Review by Pettit
- 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
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- An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 9
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- Bhadracaryāvidhi in the Śikṣāsamuccaya Chapt. 16
- Bile & Bodhisattvas: Śāntideva on Justified Anger
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- The Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature
- The Compassionate Gift of Vice: Śāntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty
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- Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles
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Śāntideva (c. seventh/eighth century) taught at Nālandā, the Buddhist university near present-day Patna, India, which, with 10,000 students and an eleven-story library, was for centuries one of the world’s principal institutions of higher learning. The Bodhicaryāvatāra (Introduction to the practice of the Bodhisattva) is said to have first been presented as a teaching by Śāntideva to his fellow monks. It is a study of the cultivation of bodhicitta, the awakened—or awakening—mind. The Bodhicaryāvatāra functions as a guidebook to the bodhisattva path, the path to liberation from emotional and cognitive defilements that is motivated by great compassion (mahākaruṇā), the altruistic aspiration to liberate all sentient beings from suffering, and facilitated by the perfection of wisdom (prajñāpāramitā). (Edelglass, "The Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra," 388)
Citation
Edelglass, William. "The Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra." In Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings, edited by William Edelglass and Jay L. Garfield, 388–99. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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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.
