Śāntideva (active 7th century)
ཞི་བ་ལྷ། zhi ba lha

 

 

Biography

  • Goodman, Charles. 2016. “Shantideva.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) plato.stanford.edu
  • Ruegg, David Seyfort. 1981. The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India. Harrassowitz. pp. 82-86
  • “Shantideva.” Rigpa Wiki. rigpawiki

Noted Scholars

Bstan-‘dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV; Charles Goodman

Works

Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra or Bodhicaryāvatāra
Introduction to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life
byang chub sems dpa’i spyod pa la ‘jug pa
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་
Tibetan  Sanskrit

  • Batchelor, Stephen, trans. 2012. A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life. Boston: Snow Lion. (BQ 3142 .E5 B37 1979 JABL) (Source Tibetan)
  • Bstan-‘dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, and Thupten Jinpa, trans. 2012. Practicing Wisdom: The Perfection of Shantideva’s Bodhisattva Way. Wisdom Publications. JABL (commentary on chapter 9 by His Holiness Dalai Lama)
  • Bstan-‘dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, Pema Wangyal, Śãntideva, and Comité De Traduction Padmakara. 2009. For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva. Shambhala. JABL
  • Comité De Traduction Padmakara. 2008. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara. Shambhala. JABL
  • Crosby, Kate and Andrew Skilton. 2008. The Bodhicaryāvatāra. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Source Sanskrit) (WorldCat)
  • Oldmeadow, Peter. 1994. “A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajnaparamita Pariccheda) Bodhicāryavtārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati.” Australian National University. openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au (Way of Bodhisattva chapter 9 commentary by Prajnakaramati)
  • Parmananda Sharma, and Prajñākaramati. 1990. Śāntidēva’s Bodhicharyāvatāra: Original Sanskrit Text with English Translation and Exposition Based on Prajñākarmati’s Pañjikā. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. (source Sanskrit) (BQ 3142 .E5 S27 1990 JABL) (Tibetan) (Sanskrit)
  • Wallace, Vesna A. and B. Alan Wallace, trans. 1997. A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life = Bodhicaryāvatāra. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications. (BQ 3142 .E5 W36 1997 JABL) (source Sanskrit and Tibetan)

Śikṣāsamuccaya
Compendium of Training or Compendium of Precepts
bslab pa kun las btus pa’i tshig le’ur bya ba
བསླབ་པ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་
Tibetan  Sanskrit

  • Śāntideva, Cecil Bendall, and W. H. D. Rouse. 2006. Śiks̥ā samuccaya: A Compendium of Buddhist Doctrine. Motilal Banarsidass. JABL
  • Śāntideva, and Charles Goodman. 2016. The Training Anthology of Śāntideva: Translation of the Śikṣā-Samuccaya. Oxford University Press. JABL

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