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Shantideva (Sanskrit: Śāntideva; Chinese: 寂天; Tibetan: ཞི་བ་ལྷ།, THL:
Zhiwa Lha; Mongolian: Шантидэва гэгээн; Vietnamese: Tịch Thiên) was an 8th-century...
- 入菩薩行論), is a Mahāyāna
Buddhist text
written c. 700 CE in
Sanskrit verse by
Shantideva (Śāntideva), a
Buddhist monk at Nālandā
University in
India which is also...
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circulated as an
independent text.
Reciting these ten vows is also
promoted by
Shantideva in his Śikṣāsamuccaya. The ten vows of
Samantabhadra are: The vow to pay...
- "[non-primary
source needed] The 8th-century
Indian Buddhist scholar Shantideva of the
ancient Nalanda Mahavihara suggested: If there's a
remedy when...
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Tibetan canons states [this is from the
Sanskrit version, the Udānavarga]:
Shantideva, in the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra 'Bodhisattva's Way of Life'
reflects at...
- and
minimize harm, and in the work of the
medieval Indian philosopher Shantideva. The
tradition of
modern utilitarianism began with
Jeremy Bentham, and...
- path is the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra by
Shantideva. In the
eighth section entitled Meditative Concentration,
Shantideva describes meditation on Karunā as thus:...
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consists of a puja,
derived and
adapted from the
Bodhicaryavatara of
Shantideva.
Retreats allow one to
focus on
meditational practice more
intensely in...
- bodhisattva, a
child of the Buddha. Thus, the
Indian Buddhist author Shantideva (8th century)
writes in his Bodhicaryavatara:
Those who long to transcend...
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promoted vegetarianism out of comp****ion.
Indian Mahayana thinkers like
Shantideva promoted the
avoidance of meat.
Throughout history, the
issue of whether...
