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Wisdom: Two Buddhist Commentaries: On the Ninth Chapter of Shantideva's Bodhicharyavatara
Book
- A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- A Few Good Men
- A Great Commentary on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Vol. 1
- 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)
- Appendix B: Excerpt from A Lamp Completely Illuminating the Profound Reality of Interdependence
- Becoming Bodhisattvas
- Bodhicaryāvatāra with Commentary (O'Sullivan)
- Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
- Discourses on Bodhicharyāvatāra
- Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior
- Engaging in the Bodhisattva Deeds
- Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- Entering the Way of the Bodhisattva: A New Translation and Contemporary Guide
- For the Benefit of All Beings
- Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Bodhicaryavatara): A Commentary by Geshe Tenzin Zopa
- Guide to the Good Life
- Healing Anger
- How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)
- Le commentaire de Mi-pham au chapitre IX du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva: Échos modernes d'une controverse du XVème siècle
- Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness
- No Time to Lose
- Patience: A Guide to Shantideva's Sixth Chapter (Zopa 2020)
- Peaceful Heart
- Perfecting Patience
- Perfecting Wisdom
- Polemics in Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism - A Late 19th-Century Debate Between 'Ju Mi pham and Dpa' ris Rab gsal
- Practicing Wisdom
- Shantideva and Friends
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 4
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 5
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 6
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 7
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 8
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 1
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 2
- Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life: An Oral Explanation of Chapter 3
- Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryāvatāra (2000)
- Sur l'océan du Mahayana
- Sāntideva, The Bodhicaryāvatāra, Chapter 8 (verses 89-140)
- The Beautiful Way of Life
- The Bodhisattva Guide
- The Center of the Sunlit Sky
- The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
- The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech
- The Profound Reality of Interdependence
- The Profound Reality of Interdependence-Review by Bouthillette
- The Reflexive Nature of Awareness (1998)
- The Way of Awakening
- The Way of the Bodhisattva (1997)
- The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
- The Wisdom Chapter
- Transcendent Wisdom (2009)
- Vimalakīrtinirdeśa: The Teaching of Vimalakīrti (Gómez, L. and Harrison, P.)
- Wisdom: Two Buddhist Commentaries
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Description
One of the most intriguing and challenging aspects of Buddhism is the idea of Emptiness. This is the subject of the ninth chapter of the Bodhicharyavatara (The Way of the Bodhisattva), one of the great classics of Mahayana Buddhist literature. The author, Shantideva, introduces the philosophical view of the Madhyamika school and describes the development of Transcendent Wisdom, the heart and life of Buddhist practice.
Numerous commentaries have been written by great Buddhist masters to explain Shantideva's somewhat cryptic poetry and subtle philosophical arguments. Two such commentaries, translated from Tibetan at the request of H.H the Dalai Lama, are presented in this book, along with a new translation of the original text. While both are highly respected within the explanatory tradition, their striking differences, in both emphasis and style, provide a rare depth of perspective on this essential subject. (Source: back cover)
Citation
Blankleder, Helena, Wulstan Fletcher, and Stephen Gethin (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. Wisdom: Two Buddhist Commentaries on the Ninth Chapter of Shantideva's Bodhicharyavatara. Khenchen Kunzang Palden's The Nectar of Mañjushri's Speech and Minyak Kunzang Sönam's The Brilliant Torch. Saint Léon sur Vézère, France: Editions Padmakara, 1999.
Table of contents
- Prefaceix
- Translators' Introductionxi
- Historical Notexv
- Bodhicharyavatara: The Wisdom Chapter1
- Book One: The Nectar of Mañjushri's Speech29
- Introduction31
- Wisdom established by means of the view35
- Wisdom experienced by means of meditation73
- Misconceptions dispelled through reasoning103
- The benefits of realising emptiness119
- Book Two: The Brilliant Torch127
- Brief Introduction129
- The Two Truths137
- The need to realise emptiness173
- Proofs of emptiness191
- Exhortation to develop wisdom249
- Colophon257
- The Nectar of Mańjushrľs Speech: Structural Outline260
- The Brilliant Torch: Structural Outline264
- The Philosophical Schools in Ancient India (chart)271
- Bibliography273
Interconnections
1 Full translation of
This commentary incorporates Gyaltsap Dharma Rinchen's explanations of the 9th chapter in his Spyod 'jug dar tik and his concise and extensive note-commentaries. It is summarized into three key points: the objective of cultivating the wisdom of realizing emptiness, the methods for cultivating it, and an appeal to endeavor to cultivate it.
2 Partial translation of
An "Introduction to Bodhisattva Practice," the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra is a poem about the path of a bodhisattva, in ten chapters, written by the Indian Buddhist Śāntideva (fl. c. 685–763). One of the masterpieces of world literature, it is a core text of Mahāyāna Buddhism and continues to be taught, studied, and commented upon in many languages and by many traditions around the world. The main subject of the text is bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment, and the path and practices of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (pāramitās). The text forms the basis of many contemporary discussions of Buddhist ethics and philosophy.
Khenpo Kunpal (1862-1943), student of Patrul Rinpoche and Mipham the Great, wrote this famous extensive word and meaning commentary (tshig don gyi 'grel pa) with a topical outline (sa bcad) to Śāntideva's Chonjuk (Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra).
1 Contains chapter or part
Blankleder, Helena, Wulstan Fletcher, and Stephen Gethin (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. "Historical Note." In Wisdom: Two Buddhist Commentaries on the Ninth Chapter of Shantideva's Bodhicharyavatara. Khenchen Kunzang Palden, The Nectar of Mañjushri's Speech, Minyak Kunzang Sönam, The Brilliant Torch, xv–xvi. Saint Léon sur Vézère, France: Editions Padmakara, 1999.
