Śāntarakṣita (705-762)
ཞི་བ་འཚོ་ zhi ba ‘tsho
Khenpo Bodhisattva, ‘Bodhisattva Abbot’
Biography
“Shantarakshita.” Rigpa Wiki (rigpawiki.org)
Blumenthal, James, and James Apple. 2008. “Śāntarakṣita.” Stanford Encyclopedia pf Philosophy (Summer 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) (plato.stanford.edu)
Ruegg, David Seyfort. The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1981, pp. 88-93 (BQ 7457 .R84 1981 JABL)
Works
Tattvasaṃgraha
Compendium on Reality
de kho na nyid bsdus pa’i tsig le’ur byas pa
དེ་ཁོ་ན་ཉིད་བསྡུས་པའི་ཙིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་
Śāntarakṣita, Ganganatha Jha, and Kamalaśīla. The Tattvasaṅgraha of Shāntarakṣita: With the Commentary of Kamalashīla. 1st ed. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1986. (BQ 3282 .E5 J4213 1986 JABL)
McClintock, Sara. 2010. Omniscience and the Rhetoric of Reason: Santaraksita and Kamalasila on Rationality, Argumentation, and Religious Authority. New York: Wisdom Publications. (BQ 3287 .M38 2010 JABL)
Madhyamakālaṃkāra
Ornament of the Middle Way
dbu ma rgyan gyi tshig le’ur byas pa
དབུ་མ་རྒྱན་གྱི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ
Blumenthal, James, Śāntarakṣita, and Rgyal-Tshab Dar-Ma-Rin-Chen. 2004. The Ornament of the Middle Way: A Study of the Madhyamaka Thought of Śāntarakṣita : Including Translations of Śāntarakṣita’s Madhyamakālamkāra (the Ornament of the Middle Way) and Gyel-Tsab’s DbU Ma Rgyan Gyi Brjed Byang (Remembering “the Ornament of the Middle Way”). Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications. (BQ 3187 .B58 2004 JABL)
Root text translation by Jim Blumenthal:
Blumenthal, James. 2004. “Translations” In The Ornament of the Middle Way, 235-246. Snow Lion Publications. (pdf)
Noted Scholars
James Blumenthal, Sara McClintock
