“Guard beings as you would your very body; support others with all possible factors; support [living beings] with your whole nature; attend to them with everything you have. Protect them as you would your own body and protect them like your own body.” — Nāgārjuna, A Commentary to the Awakening Mind (Thubten Jinpa, trans.)
Bodhisattva Ethics
Definitions
Bodhisattva
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ (byang chub sems dpa')
A hero with respect to contemplating enlightenment; one intent on full enlightenment (Hopkins)
Bodhicitta
བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་ (byang chub kyi sems)
Aspiration for awakening; aspiration to enlightenment; awakening mind; bodhicitta; mind of awakening; mind of enlightenment; mind set on awakening; semen; spirit of enlightenment; thought of awakening (84000 Glossary)
Texts, Prayers, Dedications
- King of Prayers (fpmt.org)
- Refuge and Bodhicitta (learntibetanbuddhism.org)
- Root Bodhisattva Vows (studybuddhism.com)
- Śāntideva’s Dedication Chapter, Bodhicaryavatara (kurukulla.org)
JABL Subject Headings
Contemporary Scholarship
- Gold, Jonathan C., and Douglas S. Duckworth. 2019. Readings of Santideva’s Guide to Bodhisattva Practice. Columbia University Press. JABL
- Lele, Amod. 2015. “The metaphysical basis of Santideva’s ethics.” Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 22 (2015): 249+. Gale Academic OneFile.
Tibetan Sources
Thirty Seven-fold Practice of a Bodhisattva
Gyelse Tokme Zangpo (1295 – 1369)
རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ། (rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma)
- Rgyal-sras Thogs-med-dpal Bzang-po-dpal (Gyalse Tokme Zangpo) and Adam Pearcy, trans. 2006. The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas. Lotsawa House. lotsawahouse.org
- Rgyal-sras Thogs-med-dpal Bzang-po-dpal (Gyelsay Togmay Zangpo), Ruth Sonam, trans, and Thubten Chodron, commentary. 2009. The Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas. thubtenchodron.org
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
Tsongkhapa Lobzang Drakpa (1357-1419)
ལམ་རིམ་ཆེན་མོ་ (lam rim chen mo)
- Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang-grags-pa and Lamrim Translation Committee. 2002. The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. Vol.2. Snow Lion Publications. JABL | archive.org
- Lamrim Subject Guide
Lojong Literature
- Thupten Jinpa. 2006. Mind Training: The Great Collection. Wisdom Publications w/ Institute of Tibetan Classics. JABL
- Lojong Subject Guide
Indian Sources
Indian Sources:
Aśvaghoṣa/Mātṛceṭa | Nāgārjuna | Āryadeva | Āryaśūra | Candrakīrti | Candragomin | Maitreyanātha | Asaṅga | Śāntideva | Kamalaśīla | Atīśa
Sutra/Canonical Sources
Daśabhūmika Sūtra
The Ten Bhūmis
ས་བཅུ་པའི་མདོ་ (sa bcu pa’i mdo)
- Roberts, Peter Alan. 2023. The Ten Bhūmis Chapter from the Mahāvaipulya Sūtra “A Multitude of Buddhas.” 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. read.84000.co
Āvataṃsaka Sūtra
A Multitude of Buddhas
སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པོ་ཆེ་ (sangs rgyas phal po che)
- Cleary, Thomas. 1993. The Flower Ornament Scripture. Shambhala. JABL | internetarchive.org
Ratnamegha Sūtra
The Jewel Cloud
དཀོན་མཆོག་སྤྲིན་གྱི་མདོ་ (dkon mchog sprin gyi mdo)
- Dharmachakra Translation Committee. 2023. The Jewel Cloud. 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. read.84000.co
Ārya Sanghāta Sūtra
འཕགས་པ་ཟུང་གི་མདོའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས་ (‘phags pa zung mdo’i chos kyi rnam grangs)
- Finnegan, Damchö Diana. 2006. The Ārya Sanghātasūtra Dharmaparyāya. sanghatasutra.net
Media
Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama XIV
Bodhichitta, October 4, 2009, New York. (YouTube)
Middling Stages of Meditation by Kamalasila, Hotel Ashoka, New Delhi, March 22-24, 2008 (YouTube)
Shantideva’s Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life and Kamalashila’s Middling Stages of Meditation in Madison, Wisconsin July 20-23, 2008.
- Day 1 am (YouTube) / Day 1 pm (YouTube)
- Day 2 am (YouTube) / Day 2 pm (YouTube)
- Day 3 am (YouTube) / Day 3 pm (YouTube)
- Day 4 am (YouTube)
Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, Lehigh University, July 10-15, 2008.
