Books/Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice

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• Acknowledgmentsxi

• Introduction. Participatory Authorship and Communal Interpretation: The Bodhicaryāvatāra as a "World Classic"1
  • Jonathan C. Gold
• 1. Śāntideva: The Author and His Project27
  • Paul Harrison
• 2. Reason and Knowledge on the Path: A Protreptic Reading of the Guide45
  • Amber Carpenter
• 3. On Learning to Overhear the "Vanishing Poet"60
  • Sonam Kachru
• 4. An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 984
  • Matthew T. Kapstein
• {{i|5. [[Seeing from All Sides|99}}
  • Janet Gyatso
• 6. Bodies and Embodiment in the Bodhicaryāvatāra114
  • Reiko Ohnuma
• 7. Ritual Structure and Material Culture in the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice132
  • Eric Huntington
• 8. Bodhicaryāvatāra and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong)146
  • Thupten Jinpa
• 9. Taming Śāntideva: Tsongkhapa's Use of the ''Bodhicaryāvatāra''162
  • Roger Jackson
• 10. The Middle Way of the Bodhisattva180
  • Douglas S. Duckworth
• 11. Seeing Sentient Beings: Śāntideva's Moral Phenomenology192
  • Jay L. Garfield
• 12. Śāntideva's Ethics of Impartial Compassion209
  • Charles Goodman
• 13. Śāntideva and the Moral Psychology of Fear221
  • Bronwyn Finnigan
• 14. Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva's Cultivation of Compassion235
  • John D. Dunne

• Appendix 1: A Guide to Guide Translations: Advice for Students and Instructors253
• Appendix 2: Index of Guide Verses Cited257
• Bibliography271
• Contributors285
• Index291

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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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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt मध्यमक  Tib དབུ་མ་  Ch 中觀見  

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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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