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Explore

Explore the Themes

 
Śāntideva's Life and Works
Delve deeper into Śāntideva's life stories and historical context.
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Śāntideva's Life and Cultural World
Śāntideva's Works: An Overview
Influence and Reception of Śāntideva's Works
 
An Overview of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
A chapter by chapter exploration of Śāntideva's teachings as expounded in his main work, the Bodhicaryāvatāra.
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Generating Bodhicitta
Chapter One - The Excellence and Benefits of Bodhicitta
Chapter Two - Confession of Negativity
Chapter Three - Taking Hold of Bodhicitta
Protecting Bodhicitta
Chapter Four - Conscientiousness
Chapter Five - Vigilant Introspection
Chapter Six - Patience
Perfecting Bodhicitta
Chapter Seven - Diligence
Chapter Eight - Meditative Concentration
Chapter Nine - Wisdom
Dedication of Merit
Chapter Ten - Dedication
 
The Path of the Bodhisattva
Explore the path of the bodhisattva as laid out in the Bodhicaryāvatāra, Śāntideva's treatise about conduct, meditation, and the view.
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The Bodhisattva Path According to Śāntideva
Bodhicitta
The Six Perfections
The Two Truths
 
The Practices of the Bodhisattva
Explore the practices of the bodhisattva expounded by Śāntideva.
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Generating Bodhicitta
Preliminary Practices
The Bodhisattva Vow
Protecting Bodhicitta
Cultivating Discipline
Cultivating Patience
Perfecting Bodhicitta
Cultivating Diligence
Cultivating Concentration
Cultivating Wisdom
Dedication of Merit
Dedication of Merit
 
Patrul Rinpoche's Tradition
Discover and practice a living spiritual tradition rooted in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra.
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A Short Account of Patrul Rinpoche's Life
Patrul Rinpoche's Way of Teaching the Bodhicaryāvatāra
Lineage Prayer
Practice Instructions
Patrul Rinpoche and the Dissemination of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
Rdza Dpal sprul's Teaching at the Śrī Siṃha Shedra in East Tibet
Two commentaries by Patrul Rinpoche's Disciples
 
An Overview of Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
A chapter by chapter exploration of Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya.
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Giving: Chapter 1
Protecting: Chapter 2–7
Purifying: Chapter 8–15
Enhancing: Chapter 16–19
 
The Training of the Bodhisattva
Explore the training of the Bodhisattva path as laid out by Śāntideva in the Śikṣāsamuccaya.
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Śāntideva's Approach to the Bodhisattva Training
Training: Giving
Training: Protecting
Training: Purifying
Training: Increasing
 
Śāntideva's Vision in Today's World
Explore Śāntideva's vision and its relevance in today's world with regard to religion, philosophy, and science.
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Śāntideva's Importance in the Buddhist Interfaith Dialogues
Making Sense of Śāntideva's Vision of Reality (Philosophy)
Śāntideva's Vision in a Secular World
 
Translating Śāntideva's Works into Modern Languages: Issues and Challenges
Learn more about the many challenges translators face in their translation of Śāntideva's works.
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Translating Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra: Issues and Challenges (And How To Overcome Them)
 
Sacred Art and Architecture
Explore the rich tradition of Buddhist sacred art and architecture.
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Representations of the Bodhisattvas
Thangkas
Mahayana Buddhist Art History

The Outlines

Explore the outlines of Śāntideva's main works:

 
Outline: Bodhicaryāvatāra
One of the most famous Buddhist texts. Written by the ancient Indian Buddhist scholar and adept Śāntideva.
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Outline: Śikṣāsamuccaya
Śāntideva's second and only other known text, "A Compendium of Training," is like a companion to the Bodhicaryāvatāra and deals extensively with the motivation and practice of the bodhisattva.
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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.

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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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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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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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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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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Śikṣāsamuccaya [शिक्षासमुच्चय]. bslab pa kun las btus pa [བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ།]. [The Compendium of Training]. Tengyur, RKTST 3281 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3281&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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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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