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Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

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• A Buddhist 'good life' Theory: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
• A Dialogue between Thomas Merton on Agape and Shantideva on Karuna: Some Moral Dimensions of a Catholic and Mahayana Exchange
• A Fearless Heart
• A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night
• A Mahāyāna Liturgy
• A Nirvana that Is Burning in Hell: Pain and Flourishing in Mahayana Buddhist Moral Thought
• A Note on Mahāyāna Buddhism and the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• A Precursory Phrase of Tantric Definition of Bodhicitta in the Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
• 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 Short Presentation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati
• A Summons to Buddhahood: The Bodhicaryavatara as Santideva's Call to Embrace the Bodhicitta
• Altruism and Reality (1998)
• Altruism and Reality-Review by Franco
• 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
• An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 9
• An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics
• 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
• Bhadracaryāvidhi in the Śikṣāsamuccaya Chapt. 16
• 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 9:2 as a Focus for Tibetan Interpretations of the Two Truths in the Prāsangika Mādhyamika
• Bodhicaryāvatāra and Bodhicaryāvatāra-Pañjikā (Malalasekera)
• Bodhicaryāvatāra and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong)
• Bodhicaryāvatāra: Governing the Bodhisattvas Way of Life
• Bodhicitta (Ringu Tulku)
• Bodhicitta and Bodhisattva: A Study of the Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva
• Bodhicitta and Charity: A Comparison
• Bodhicitta: Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment
• Bodhisattva e Prajñāpāramitā nel Bodhicaryāvatāra di Śāntideva
• Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Exposition de la pratique des bodhisattvas
• Bodies and Embodiment in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Buddhist Ethics (2003)
• 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
• Can We Kill Illusory People? Some Philosophical Reflections on Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra 9:11-13ab
• Comparative Confession: A Comparative Study of Confession in the Writings of Tertullian, Cassian, and Śāntideva
• Compassion and Equality
• 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
• Comprendre la vacuité
• 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
• Das 7. Kapitel über die Tatkraft in Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Das Ritual der Entschlussfassung im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Kap. II und III)
• Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara)
• 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 zwei Wahrheiten
• Die zwei Wirklichkeiten
• 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
• Epitome of the Bodhicaryāvatāra with Its Pañjikā, Chap. IX
• 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
• Ethics in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A Study in Mahāyāna Morality
• Exchanging Self and Other
• Experience and Morality: Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology
• Extreme Giving: The Vessantara Jātaka and Shantideva's A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
• Fierce Devotion to all Beings: The Role of Emotions in Śāntideva’s Introduction to the Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra)
• 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
• From the Profound View of the Ultimate to Everyday Practice: Tokme Zangpo's Integration of Śāntideva's Teachings into Mind Training
• Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108
• Healing Anger
• Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective-Review by Naga
• Hume as a Western Mādhyamika: The Case from Ethics
• Identifying the Object of Negation: On Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:140 (Tib. 139)
• In Praise of Great Compassion
• Indian Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy after Nagarjuna, Vol. 2
• Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva's Cultivation of Compassion
• Internal and External Opposition to the Bodhisattva's Gift of His Body
• 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
• L'opalescent joyau
• La conception de la realité dans L'Entrèe dans la voie de l'illumination de Santideva
• La légende de Śāntideva
• Le commentaire de Mi-pham au chapitre IX du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva: Échos modernes d'une controverse du XVème siècle
• Love in Christianity and Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Madhyamaka Ethics
• Making and Remaking the Ultimate in Early Tibetan Readings of Śāntideva
• Mapping the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Mental Purification (Blo sbyong): A Native Tibetan Genre of Religious Literature
• Mi pham and the Philosophical Controversies of the Nineteenth Century
• Mindfulness and Ethics: Attention, Virtue and Perfection
• Mindfulness and Moral Transformation: Awakening to Others in Śāntideva's Ethics
• Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness
• 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
• Nyubosatsugyō-ron kaisetsu saisho no Shyāntidēva rikai
• On Altruism and Rebirth: Philosophical Comments on Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 97-8
• 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 Śāntideva's Position in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
• One Aspect of the Acceptance of the Bodhisattva-śīla in Tibet
• Peaceful Heart
• Perfecting Patience
• Perfecting Wisdom
• Performing Text as Practice: Rdza Dpal sprul's Practice Manual on the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
• Plant Seed, Pull Weed
• Polemics in Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism - A Late 19th-Century Debate Between 'Ju Mi pham and Dpa' ris Rab gsal
• Practicing Wisdom
• Puṇya and Pāp in Public Health: Everyday Religion, Material Culture, and Avenues of Buddhist Activism in Urban Kathmandu
• 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
• Remarks on the Philosophical Standpoint of the Anonymous Commentary, Bodhisattvacaryāvatāravyākhyāna(-pañjikā)
• René Girard, Śāntideva, and the Emptiness of Desire
• Reply to Paul Williams
• Resentment and Reality: Buddhism on Moral Responsibility
• Response to Mark Siderits' Review
• Ritual Structure and Material Culture in the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
• Santideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Seeing Sentient Beings: Śāntideva's Moral Phenomenology
• Seeing from All Sides
• Self-Protection through Mindfulness, Śāntideva
• 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's Bodhicaryavatara: An Internal Pilgrimage to Universal Peace and Compassion
• Shantideva's Bodhisattvacharyavatara: The Way of the Bodhisattva
• Ninth Chapter Analysis
• 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
• Stotra, Psychological Conditioning, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Together with a Translation of the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda
• Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra (2000)
• Suffering Made Sufferable: Śāntideva, Dzongkaba, and Modern Therapeutic Approaches to Suffering's Silver Lining
• Sāntideva, The Bodhicaryāvatāra, Chapter 8 (verses 89-140)
• Tant que durera l'espace
• The Absence of Self and the Removal of Pain: How Śāntideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path
• The Awakening Mind (Tsering 2008)
• The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature
• The Bodhisattva Guide
• The Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
• The Bodhisattva and the Ideal of Moral Wisdom in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
• The Buddhist Roots of Secular Compassion Training: A Comparative Study of Compassion Cultivation in Indian and Tibetan Mahāyāna Sources with the Contemporary Secular Program of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)
• 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 Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature
• The Compassionate Gift of Vice: Śāntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty
• The Concept of Bodhicitta in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara
• The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Diss)
• The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Edelglass
• The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Tatz
• The Connection between Ontology and Ethics in Madhyamaka Thought
• The Contrasts between the Bodhisattvayāna and the Śrāvakayāna in the Śikṣāsamuccaya's Theory of Bodhicitta
• The Elusive Buddhist Self: Preliminary Reflections on Its Denial
• 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 Philosophical Basis of Worship in the Works of Śāntideva
• The Profound Reality of Interdependence
• The Reality of Altruism: Reconstructing Śāntideva, A Review of Altruism and Reality: Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicāryāvatāra, by Paul Williams
• The Relationship between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training according to the Śikṣāsamuccaya
• The Resolve to Become a Buddha
• The Role of Solitude (viveka) in the Eighth Chapter (Dhyānapāramitā) of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• 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 Wisdom Chapter
• The Śāntideva Passage: Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII.90–103
• Theory and Comparison in the Discussion of Buddhist Ethics
• Traces of Consequentialism and Non-Consequentialism in Bodhisattva Ethics
• Transcendent Wisdom (1988)
• 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
• Virtues-Pāramitās: St. Ignatius of Loyola and Śāntideva as Companions on the Way of Life
• Virtuous Bodies
• 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
• 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 Moral Psychology of Fear
• Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
• Śāntideva in the History of Mādhyamika Philosophy
• Śāntideva on Developing the Thought of Awakening
• 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's Statement about Confession
• Śāntideva, A Mystic of Buddhism
• Śāntideva, Virtue, and Consequentialism
• Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles
• Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles-Review by Cabezón
• Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra: Das Weiterwirken des Werkes dargestellt anhand der Überlieferungsgeschichte des Textes und seiner Kommentare

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Table of contents

• Preface by Bhikṣuṇī Thubten Chodronxiii
• Abbreviationsxix

• 1. TRUSTWORTHY SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE3
  • The Entrance to the Buddhist Path3
  • Reasons for Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels6
  • The Mind's Potential and the Existence of the Three Jewels7
  • The Three Jewels according to the Fundamental Vehicle10
  • The Three Jewels according to the Perfection Vehicle16
  • Eight Excellent Qualities of the Buddha Jewel19
  • Eight Excellent Qualities of the Dharma Jewel22
  • Eight Excellent Qualities of the Saṅgha Jewel25
  • Final and Provisional Refuges28
  • The Three Jewels according to the Vajra Vehicle34

• 2. QUALITIES OF THE BUDDHA, DHARMA, AND SAṄGHA39
  • The Four Kinds of Self-Confidence39
  • The Ten Powers of the Tathāgata41
  • The Eighteen Unique Qualities of a Buddha47
  • Qualities of the Buddha's Body, Speech, and Mind51
  • The Buddha as a Reliable Guide54
  • Recollection of the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha61
  • Distinguishing Features of the Three Jewels73
  • Causal and Resultant Refuge75

• 3. HEARTFELT CONNECTION TO THE THREE JEWELS79
  • Formally Taking Refuge79
  • Deepening Our Refuge82
  • Maintaining Proper Refuge85
  • Bodhisattvas' Refuge89

• 4. THE HIGHER TRAINING IN ETHICAL CONDUCT91
  • The Three Higher Trainings91
  • The Importance of Ethical Conduct92
  • The Prātimokṣa Ethical Code94
  • Vinaya Schools98
  • The Benefits of Practicing the Prātimokṣa Ethical Conduct99
  • Intoxicants104
  • Why Celibacy?105
  • Bodhisattva and Tantric Ethical Codes108
  • Making Mistakes and Rectifying Them109

• 5. SAṄGHA: THE MONASTIC COMMUNITY113
  • The Value of the Monastic Community113
  • The Flourishing of the Dharma and the Existence of the Dharma115
  • The Intent and Purpose of Monastic Life115
  • Maintaining the Purity of the Saṅgha118
  • Tibetan Monastics and Monastic Institutions127
  • Challenges for Western Monastics130
  • Full Ordination for Women132
  • Advice for Monastics136
  • The Joy of Monastic Discipline139

• 6. THE HIGHER TRAINING IN CONCENTRATION AND THE PERFECTION OF MEDITATIVE STABILITY143
  • Concentration and Serenity143
  • The Importance of Developing Serenity145
  • Conditions Conducive to the Development of Serenity148
  • Observed Objects153
  • Choosing Our Meditation Object162
  • Structuring the Meditation Session163
  • Working with the Body164

• 7. OBSTACLES AND ANTIDOTES167
  • The Five Hindrances167
  • Taming the Five Hindrances177
  • Overcoming Hindrances184
  • The Five Faults and Eight Antidotes187
  • The Nine Stages of Sustained Attention196
  • Mental and Physical Pliancy and the Bliss of Physical and Mental Pliancy201
  • A Diagram Illustrating the Process of Attaining Serenity207

• 8. THE MEDITATIVE ABSORPTIONS211
  • Cultivating Mundane Insight212
  • Meditative Absorptions of the Form Realm218
  • Meditative Absorptions of the Formless Realm221
  • Meditative Absorptions on the Four Truths224
  • The Eight Liberations235
  • The Nine Serial Absorptions239
  • The Superknowledges243
  • The Value of the Superknowledges for Bodhisattvas253
  • Serenity in Buddhist Practice257
  • Words of Advice259

• 9. CONCENTRATION IN THE PĀLI TRADITION261
  • Objects of Meditation261
  • The Four Dhyānas272
  • The Four Formless Absorptions279
  • Four Kinds of Development of Samādhi282
  • Samādhi and Insight283

• 10. THE PRACTICE OF SERENITY IN CHINESE BUDDHISM289
  • Meditation289
  • Creating Balance at the Beginning and End of a Meditation Session291
  • Cultivating Serenity and Insight in Sitting Meditation295
  • Cultivating Serenity and Insight while Interacting with the Environment296
  • Deviant Meditation and Correct Meditation300
  • Counteracting the Work of Māra301

• 11. HIGHER TRAINING IN WISDOM: THE ROLE OF MINDFULNESS AND INTROSPECTIVE AWARENESS305
  • Introduction to the Thirty-Seven Harmonies with Awakening305
  • The Importance of Mindfulness and Introspective Awareness306
  • Mindfulness307
  • Introspective Awareness312
  • Mindfulness and Introspective Awareness Working in Tandem319
  • Mindfulness in Modernity322
  • The Thirty-Seven Harmonies with Awakening323

• 12. THE FOUR ESTABLISHMENTS OF MINDFULNESS: BODY, FEELINGS, AND MIND327
  • Introduction to the Four Establishments of Mindfulness329
  • Shared and Specific Characteristics333
  • Mindfulness of the Body (kāyasmṛti, kāyagatāsati)336
  • Mindfulness of Feelings355
  • Mindfulness of the Mind365

• 13. THE FOUR ESTABLISHMENTS OF MINDFULNESS: PHENOMENA375
  • Mindfulness of Phenomena375
  • Mindfulness of the Five Hindrances377
  • Mindfulness of the Five Aggregates381
  • Mindfulness of the Six Sources385
  • Mindfulness of the Seven Awakening Factors387
  • Mindfulness of the Four Truths391
  • Mindfulness in Vajrayāna393
  • Bodhisattvas' Practice of the Four Establishments of Mindfulness393
  • The Selflessness of Phenomena and the Four Establishments of Mindfulness394
  • The Benefits of the Four Establishments of Mindfulness408

• 14. THE THIRTY-SEVEN HARMONIES WITH AWAKENING413
  • The Four Supreme Strivings414
  • The Four Bases of Spiritual Power417
  • The Five Faculties and Five Powers422
  • The Seven Awakening Factors427
  • The Āryas' Eightfold Path432
  • Relationships among the Thirty-Seven Harmonies with Awakening446
  • The Thirty-Seven Harmonies and the Five Paths448
  • Conventional and Ultimate Thirty-Seven Harmonies452
  • The Thirty-Seven Harmonies for Fundamental Vehicle and Mahāyāna Practitioners453
  • The Thirty-Seven Harmonies in Tibetan Buddhism455

• Notes461
• Glossary473
• Further Reading487
• Index489
• About the Authors519

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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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Vinaya - Vinaya refers to the corpus of Buddhist teachings on moral discipline and precepts and is one of the three canonical sets of teachings alongside Sūtra and Abhidharma. It also refers to the monastic tradition which has been passed down since the Buddha's time until our time. Skt विनय  Tib འདུལ་བ།  Ch 毘奈耶  

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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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Dhyāna - A state of deep, one-pointed concentration where the mind is stable, calm, and focused on a single object, serving as a foundation for developing wisdom. Skt ध्यान  Tib བསམ་གཏན་  Ch 禪;禪那;靜慮  

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Vajrayāna - The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras. Skt वज्रयान  Tib རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།  Ch 金剛乘  

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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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