Śāntideva's Life and Works
Śikṣāsamuccaya and the Bodhicaryāvatāra
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Texts
Books
- A Bibliography of the Sanskrit Texts of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra
- A Brilliant Sun
- A Buddha Within: The Tathāgatagarbhasūtra
- A Clear Differentiation of the Three Codes
- A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- A Critical Edition of Lokakṣema's Translation of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā
- A Descriptive Catalogue of Sanscrit Manuscripts in the Government Collection
- A Direct Path to Enlightenment (1972)
- A Direct Path to Enlightenment (1975)
- A Fearless Heart
- A Feast of the Nectar of the Supreme Vehicle
- A Few Good Men
- A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night
- A Garland of Views: A Guide to View, Meditation, and Result in the Nine Vehicles
- A Gathering of Brilliant Moons
- A Great Commentary on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Vol. 1
- A Guide to The Words of My Perfect Teacher
- A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
- A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (1985)
- A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (1999)
- A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life of Shantideva (2002)
- A Guide to the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
- A Lamp for the Path and Commentary
- A Mirror Is for Reflection
- A Revised Edition of the Laṅkāvatāra-Sūtra, Kṣaṇika-Parivarta
- A Study of Akṣayamati (Śāntideva)'s Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra as Found in the Tibetan Manuscripts From Tun-huang
- A Study of the Dūn-huáng Recension of the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra
- A Treasury of Mahāyāna Sūtras
- A Vase of Nectar to Inspire the Faithful
- Abhisamayālaṃkārāloka Prajñāpāramitā-vyākhyā (Wogihara)
- Achieving Bodhichitta
- Activating Bodhichitta and A Meditation on Compassion (Dalai Lama, 14th 2006)
- Advice from a Spiritual Friend
- Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra, Vol. 1 (Braarvig, J.)
- Akṣayamatinirdeśasūtra, Vol. 2 (Braarvig, J.)
- Altruism and Reality (1998)
- Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
- Amida Dhāraṇī Sūtra and Jñānagarbha's Commentary
- An Exhortation to Resolve Upon Bodhi
- An Index to the Bodhicaryāvatāra Pañjikā, Chapter IX
- An Introduction to Buddhism (2018, 14th Dalai Lama)
- An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics
- Anger: The Seven Deadly Sins
- Anleitung zum Leben als Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra)
- Anleitungen auf dem Weg zur Glückseligkeit: Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Annotated Commentary: Shantideva's Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas
- Arya Nagarjuna's Praise to Satisfying Sentient Beings (and) A Commentary on the Awakening Mind (14th Dalai Lama 2015)
- Asanga's Bodhisattvabhumi Ein Dogmatischer Text Der Nordbuddhisten Nach Dem Unikum Von Cambridge
- Asanga's Chapter on Ethics
- Ascertaining the Vinaya: Upāli's Questions: Vinayaviniścayopāliparipṛcchā (Erdene-Ochir, B.)
Articles
- 37 Bodhisattva Practices
- A Bodhicitta Practice for Love and Compassion (Chodron 2021)
- A Brief Commentary on the Refuge & Bodhicitta Prayer Known as Sangyé Chö Tsok Ma (Ngawang Tenzin Norbu 2009)
- A Brief Guide to the Stages and Paths of the Bodhisattvas
- A Brief Overview of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra and Śikṣāsamuccaya
- A Buddhist 'good life' Theory: Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Buddhist Carol
- A Commentary on the Awakening Mind
- A Comparative of Sanskrit, Tibetan and Mongolian on Prajñāpāramitā Chapter of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (2) (The Commemoration Number Published on the Occasion of the Seventieth Birthday of Professor Ryojun Fuyo)
- A Critical Study of Ācārya Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Descriptive Catalogue and Restoration of the Tibetan Language Text of Bodhicaryavatara from Dunhuang Documents
- A Discourse on Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices and The Three Principal Paths (Dalai Lama, 14th 1981)
- A Fragment of the Bodhicaryāvatāra from Olon Süme
- A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life (Bodhicaryāvatāra)-Review by Cantwell
- A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life-Review by De Jong
- A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life-Review by Pettit
- A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment: Commentary by Khunu Lama Rinpoche
- A Mahāyāna Liturgy
- A Meditation to Develop Bodhichitta (Chodron 2023)
- A Method for Reciting the Text Engaging in Bodhisattva Conducts: A Stream of Blessings
- A Mongolian Printed Fragment of Bodhicaryavatara from Dunhuang
- A New Translation of the Sanskrit Bhadracarī with Introduction and Notes
- A Nirvana that Is Burning in Hell: Pain and Flourishing in Mahayana Buddhist Moral Thought
- A Note on Mahāyāna Buddhism and the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Precious Lamp in Praise of Bodhicitta (Khunu Lama 1981)
- A Precursory Phrase of Tantric Definition of Bodhicitta in the Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- A Preliminary Report on Newly Identified Text Fragments in Śāradā Script from Źwa lu Monastery in the Tucci Collection
- A Preliminary Survey of Sanskrit Manuscripts of Madhyamaka Texts Preserved in the Tibet Autonomous Region
- A Reliable Witness? On the Tibetan Translation of the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- A Response to John Pettit
- A Revised Edition of the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra, "Kṣaṇika-parivarta" (in Collected Papers)
- A Role for Primordial Wisdom in the Buddhist Free Will Controversy
- A Sanskrit MS. from Tibet: Kamalaśīla's Bhāvanā-krama
- A Short Account of the Commentarial Tradition in Tibet
- A Short Presentation of Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Study of Bodhicitta in Esoteric Buddhism (Watanabe 1985)
- A Study on the Origin of Mahāyāna Buddhism
- A Suggestion of the Buddhist View of Life and Death for Contemporary Thanatology: From Conviction of Death to Awakening Bodhicitta (Yang 2020)
- A Survey of the Conception of Bodhicitta (Joshi 1971)
- A Tale of Two Traditions? The Indian Commentarial Tradition on Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- A Teaching on Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- Abiding in Good and Noble Deportment
- Account of the Period of the Kings Cala, Pañcamasiṃha and Others
- Action and Its Result in the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Advice for Tenzin Jamchen (Trulshik Rinpoche 2018)
- Again: On Atiśa's Bodhipathapradīpa
- Akshayamati Sūtra: Selection 170 (Conze, E.)
- Akṣayamati and Śāntideva
- Akṣayamati's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra as Found in the Tibetan Manuscripts from Dūn-huáng
- All the Wealth of Poets: The Bodhicitta Verses of Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen (Pitkin 2024)
Dissertations
- 'Jig rten mgon po and the Single Intention
- A Critical Study of Ācārya Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (diss)
- A Dialogue between Thomas Merton on Agape and Shantideva on Karuna: Some Moral Dimensions of a Catholic and Mahayana Exchange
- A Prolegomena to the Śrīmālādevī Sūtra and the Tathāgatagarbha Theory: The Role of Women in Buddhism
- A Selfless Response to an Illusory World: A Comparative Study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara
- A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati
- A Study of the Ṡikṣasamuccaya of Āchārya Shāntideva
- A Summons to Buddhahood: The Bodhicaryavatara as Santideva's Call to Embrace the Bodhicitta
- Affirmation in Negation: A Study of the Tathāgatagarbha Theory in the Light of the Bodhisattva Practices
- Becoming the Wish-Fulfilling Tree - Compassion and the Transformation of Ethical Subjectivity in the Lojong Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
- Bodhicitta and Bodhisattva: A Study of the Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva
- Buddhist Educational Principles and Practices in Asaṅga's Bodhisattvabhūmi
- Buddhist Mereological Analysis in the Milindapañhā, Vasubandhu's Twenty Verses, and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Building Place and Shaping Lives: Nartang Monastery from the Twelfth through Fifteenth Centuries
- Candragomin and the Bodhisattva Vow
- Das Gilgit-Fragment Or. 11878A im Britischen Museum zu London
- Daśabhūmikasūtra (Rahder, J.)
- Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara)
- Die Aufnahme des Erleuchtungsgeistes: Eine Übersetzung von Prajñākaramatis Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā 3.1-19
- Die Bhadracari, eine probe buddhistisch-religiöser lyrik
- Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva
- Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism
- Ethics in the Śikṣāsamuccaya: A Study in Mahāyāna Morality
- Experience and Morality: Buddhist Ethics as Moral Phenomenology
- Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108
- Le commentaire de Mi-pham au chapitre IX du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva: Échos modernes d'une controverse du XVème siècle
- Like Pouring Water into Water - Buddhist Lineages, Modernity and the Continuity of Memory in the Twentieth-Century History of Tibetan Buddhism
- Love in Christianity and Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Meditation and the Concept of Insight in Kamalaśīla's Bhāvanākramas
- MindFulness in Santideva's Siksasamuccaya
- Mipham Gyatso Rinpoche's 'Makeover' of Hwashang Moheyan
- Of the Progresse of the Bodhisattva: The Bodhisattvamārga in the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- Sakya Paṇḍita's Ritual for Generating the Mind According to the Madhyamaka Tradition (dbu ma lugs kyi sems bskyed kyi cho ga) (Chao 2023)
- Santideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Selfhood and the Metaphysics of Altruism
- Stotra, Psychological Conditioning, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Together with a Translation of the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda
- The Bhaiṣajyaguru-Sūtra and the Buddhism of Gilgit
- The Bodhisattva and the Ideal of Moral Wisdom in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- The Bodhisattvapiṭaka: Its Doctrines, Practices and their Position in Mahāyāna Literature (Pagel 1992)
- 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 Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Diss)
- The Dhyāna Chapter of the Bodhisattvapiṭaka-Sūtra
- The Life and Collected Works of Tibetan Lojong Master Tokmé Zangpo (1295-1369)
- The Origin of Bodhicitta and Its Development in Chinese Buddhism (Lin 2005)
- The Origins and Early History of the Mahāratnakūṭa Tradition of Mahāyāna Buddhism with a Study of the Ratnarāśisūtra and Related Materials
- The Range of the Bodhisattva: A Study of an Early Mahāyānasūtra - Āryasatyakaparivarta
- The Relationship between Morality and the Body in Monastic Training according to the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- The Self and the Suffering Other: Levinas and Śāntideva on the Ethics of Compassion
