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Shantideva's Teaching

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Śāntideva's Life and Cultural World

• A Short Presentation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• A Study of Akṣayamati (Śāntideva)'s Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra as Found in the Tibetan Manuscripts From Tun-huang
• Account of the Period of the Kings Cala, Pañcamasiṃha and Others
• Akṣayamati and Śāntideva
• Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra als Lehrschrift und Vorhaben: Zum Thema Ritual, Religion, Philosophie und Mystik im Buddhismus
• Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana
• Bu ston on the sPyod 'jug (Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra)
• Buddha Mind - Christ Mind
• Buddha's Lions
• Buddhist Texts Through the Ages
• Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
• Entering the Path of Enlightenment
• Entering the Path of Enlightenment-Review by Cook
• Entering the Path of Enlightenment-Review by Seyfort Ruegg
• Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva
• Ethics in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A Study in Mahāyāna Morality
• Facts or Fictions: Reconsidering Śāntideva's Names, Life, and Works
• Fierce Devotion to all Beings: The Role of Emotions in Śāntideva’s Introduction to the Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra)
• General Introduction: Śāntideva and His World
• Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108
• How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)
• La légende de Śāntideva
• Mahasiddhas: La vie de 84 sages de l'Inde
• Masters of Mahāmudrā
• Mental Purification (Blo sbyong): A Native Tibetan Genre of Religious Literature
• Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
• Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya-Review by Osto
• Moral Theory in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue-Review by Goodman
• On Akṣayamati's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• Proof of the Authenticity of the Mahāyāna in Akṣayamati's Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
• Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice-Review by Harris
• Reason, Irrationality and Akrasia (Weakness of the Will) in Buddhism: Reflections upon Śāntideva's Arguments with Himself
• Remarks on Akṣayamati (Blo gros mi zad pa), Being the Author of the Earlier Version of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
• Santideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Santideva, un mistico del Buddhismo
• Shantideva (From Butön's History of Buddhism in India and Its Spread to Tibet, Translated by Lisa Stein and Ngawang Zangpo)
• Shantideva (Nariman)
• Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara: An Internal Pilgrimage to Universal Peace and Compassion
• Shantideva's Teaching
• Shāntideva (Tib. Shi-wa-lha)
• Stotra, Psychological Conditioning, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Together with a Translation of the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda
• The Bodhi-caryâvatāra and Its Monastic Aspects: On the Problem of Representation
• The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature
• The Center of the Sunlit Sky
• The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Diss)
• 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 Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India
• The Mahāsiddha Bhusuku (Śāntideva), The Idle Monk
• The Masters and Poets of the Mahāyāna
• The Perfection of Wisdom (Schopen)
• The Resolve to Become a Buddha
• The Training Anthology of Śāntideva
• The Triskandha, Practice in Three Parts: Study of an Early Mahāyāna Buddhist Ritual
• Śāntideva (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Śāntideva (Potter, Kalupahana, and Sweet)
• Śāntideva (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Śāntideva and Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Śāntideva as a Mantracarin
• Śāntideva in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
• Śāntideva, A Mystic of Buddhism
• Śāntideva, il Bodhicaryāvatāra e le kārikā del Śikṣāsamuccaya
• Śāntideva, il Bodhicaryāvatāra e le kārikā del Śikṣāsamuccaya-Review by Pāsādika
• Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles
• Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles-Review by Cabezón
• Śāntideva: The Author and His Project
• Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra: Das Weiterwirken des Werkes dargestellt anhand der Überlieferungsgeschichte des Textes und seiner Kommentare

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Shantideva lived twelve hundred years ago in northern India. He is the author of the Sanskrit classic elucidating the bodhisattva's way of life, known as the Bodhicharya-avatara, or "Engaging in the Bodhisattva's Way."
      Shantideva was by birth a prince, and when he was still a boy, the goddess Tara warned him in a dream about the miseries of worldly existence. On the very eve of Shantideva's royal enthronement, the wisdom deity Manjusri likewise admonished him, so Shantideva forsook his throne and went into the forest to practice yoga and meditation. Later he became a monk at Nalanda University.
      This story shows how deceptive appearances can be, especially in the spiritual realm. Isn't it difficult to recognize the hidden saints among us?

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Das, Lama Surya. "Shantideva's Teaching." In The Snow Lion's Turquoise Mane: Wisdom Tales from Tibet, 97–98. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

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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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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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