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The Training Anthology of Śāntideva: A Translation of the Śikṣā-samuccaya
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Translation of Śikṣ (Skt-Eng)


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The Training Anthology—or Śikṣā-samuccaya—is a collection of quotations from Buddhist sutras with illuminating and insightful commentary by the eighth-century North Indian master Śāntideva. Best known for his philosophical poem, the Bodhicaryāvatāra, Śāntideva (or Shantideva) has been a vital source of spiritual guidance and literary inspiration to Tibetan teachers and students throughout the history of Tibetan Buddhism. Charles Goodman offers a translation of this major work of religious literature, in which Śāntideva has extracted, from the vast ocean of the Buddha's teachings, a large number of passages of exceptional value, either for their practical relevance, philosophical illumination, or aesthetic beauty. The Training Anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the Mahāyāna path to Awakening and gives scholars an invaluable window into the religious doctrines, ethical commitments, and everyday life of Buddhist monks in India during the first millennium CE. (Source: back cover)
Citation
Goodman, Charles, trans. The Training Anthology of Śāntideva: A Translation of the Śikṣā-samuccaya. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Table of contents
  • List of Abbreviationsvii
  • The Training Anthology in Its Cultural and Religious Contextsix
    • Śāntideva's Life: History and Legendsix
    • The Great Journey to Awakeningxii
    • The Indian Buddhist Monastery as a Social Institutionxviii
    • The Cultural World of Śāntideva: Some Major Featuresxxiii
    • The Structure of the Training Anthologyxxvii
    • The Supreme Worshipxxviii
    • The Training Anthology Todayxxx
  • The Philosophy of the Training Anthologyxxxv
    • Reason, Emotion, and Rhetoricxxxv
    • Ethical Theoryxxxvii
    • Lexical Priority of Valuesxlviii
    • Plants, Animals, and the Environmentl
    • Theory of Well-Beinglii
    • No-Self, Causation, and Emptinessliv
  • Notes on the Translationlix
  • Root Verses of the Training Anthologylxxiii
    • 1. The Perfection of Generosity1
    • 2. Upholding the Holy Dharma38
    • 3. Protecting the Dharma Teacher and So On49
    • 4. Giving Up What Is Harmful63
    • 5. Giving Up What Is Harmful through the Perfection of Moral Discipline100
    • 6. Protecting the Body116
    • 7. Protecting Possessions and Goodness139
    • 8. Clearing Away Vile Actions155
    • 9. The Perfection of Patient Endurance177
    • 10. The Perfection of Perseverance186
    • 11. Praise of the Wilderness190
    • 12. Preparing the Mind199
    • 13. The Applications of Mindfulness222
    • 14. Purifying the Body233
    • 15. Purifying Possessions and Goodness255
    • 16. The Ritual of Good Conduct261
    • 17 Benefits of Reverential Actions279
    • 18. Recollection of the Three Jewels294
    • 19. Enhancing Goodness323
    • Appendix A: Training Anthology Ch. 18, B. 344-347, Tibetan Version339
    • Appendix B: Partial List ofTranslation Choices349
    • Appendix C: Texts Quoted in the Training Anthology of Śāntideva351
    • Notes361
    • Works Cited421
    • Index425
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Śikṣāsamuccaya (T. Bslab pa kun las btus pa; C. Dasheng ji pusa xue lun; J. Daijōjū bosatsugakuron; K. Taesǔng chip posal hak non 大乘集菩薩學論). In Sanskrit, "Compendium of Training," a work by the eighth-century Indian Mahāyāna master Śāntideva. It consists of twenty-seven stanzas on the motivation and practice of the bodhisattva, including bodhicitta, the six perfections (pāramitā), the worship of buddhas and bodhisattvas, the benefits of renunciation, and the peace derived from the knowledge of emptiness (śūnyatā). The topic of each of the stanzas receives elaboration in the form of a prose commentary by the author as well as in illustrative passages, often quite extensive, drawn from a wide variety of Mahāyāna sūtras. Some ninety-seven texts are cited in all, many of which have been lost in their original Sanskrit, making the Śikṣāsamuccaya an especially important source for the textual history of Indian Buddhism. These citations also offer a window into which sūtras were known to a Mahāyāna author in eighth-century India. The digest of passages that Śāntideva provides was repeatedly drawn upon by Tibetan authors in their citations of sūtras. Although Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra and Śikṣāsamuccaya both deal with similar topics, the precise relation between the two texts is unclear. Several of the author's verses appear in both texts and some of the sūtra passages from the Śikṣāsamuccaya also appear in the Bodhicaryāvatāra. One passage in the Bodhicaryāvatāra also refers readers to the Śikṣāsamuccaya, but this line does not occur in the Dunhuang manuscript of the text and may be a later interpolation. (Source: "Śikṣāsamuccaya." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 821. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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This is Amod Lele's review of the book The Training Anthology of Śāntideva: A Translation of the Śikṣā-samuccaya, by Charles Goodman.
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Śikṣāsamuccaya (T. Bslab pa kun las btus pa; C. Dasheng ji pusa xue lun; J. Daijōjū bosatsugakuron; K. Taesǔng chip posal hak non 大乘集菩薩學論). In Sanskrit, "Compendium of Training," a work by the eighth-century Indian Mahāyāna master Śāntideva. It consists of twenty-seven stanzas on the motivation and practice of the bodhisattva, including bodhicitta, the six perfections (pāramitā), the worship of buddhas and bodhisattvas, the benefits of renunciation, and the peace derived from the knowledge of emptiness (śūnyatā). The topic of each of the stanzas receives elaboration in the form of a prose commentary by the author as well as in illustrative passages, often quite extensive, drawn from a wide variety of Mahāyāna sūtras. Some ninety-seven texts are cited in all, many of which have been lost in their original Sanskrit, making the Śikṣāsamuccaya an especially important source for the textual history of Indian Buddhism. These citations also offer a window into which sūtras were known to a Mahāyāna author in eighth-century India. The digest of passages that Śāntideva provides was repeatedly drawn upon by Tibetan authors in their citations of sūtras. Although Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra and Śikṣāsamuccaya both deal with similar topics, the precise relation between the two texts is unclear. Several of the author's verses appear in both texts and some of the sūtra passages from the Śikṣāsamuccaya also appear in the Bodhicaryāvatāra. One passage in the Bodhicaryāvatāra also refers readers to the Śikṣāsamuccaya, but this line does not occur in the Dunhuang manuscript of the text and may be a later interpolation. (Source: "Śikṣāsamuccaya." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 821. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)