Shantideva (Sanskrit: ??ntideva; Chinese: ??; Tibetan: ????????, THL: Zhiwa Lha; Mongolian: ????????? ??????; Vietnamese: T?ch Thiên) was an 6th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar at Nalanda. He was an adherent of the Madhyamaka philosophy of Nagarjuna.
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Biography
The Zhansi Lun of the East Asian M?dhyamaka identifies two different individuals given the name "Shantideva": the founder of the Avaivartika Sangha in the 6th century and a later Shantideva who studied at Nalanda in the 8th century and appears to be the source of the Tibetan biographies. Archaeological discoveries support this thesis. Two Tibetan sources of the life of Shantideva are the historians Buton Rinchen Drub and T?ran?tha. Recent scholarship has brought to light a short Sanskrit life of Shantideva in a 14th-century Nepalese manuscript. An accessible account that follows the Butön closely can be found in Kunzang Pelden, The Nectar of Manjushri's speech.
Shantideva was born in the Saurastra (in modern Gujarat), son of King Kalyanavarman, and he went by the name ?antivarman.
According to Pema Chödrön, "Shantideva was not well liked at Nalanda."
Apparently he was one of those people who didn't show up for anything, never studying or coming to practice sessions. His fellow monks said that his three "realizations" were eating, sleeping, and shitting.
After being goaded into giving a talk to the entire university body, Shantideva delivered The Way of the Bodhisattva.
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Works
?ik??samuccaya
The ?ik??samuccaya ("Training Anthology") is a prose work in nineteen chapters. It is organized as a commentary on twenty-seven short mnemonic verses known as the ?ik??samuccaya K?rik?. It consists primarily of quotations (of varying length) from s?tras, authoritative texts considered to be the word of the Buddha -- generally those s?tras associated with Mah?y?na tradition, including the Samadhiraja Sutra.
Bodhicaryavatara
Shantideva is particularly renowned as the author of the Bodhisattvacary?vat?ra. An English translation is available online, as well as in print in a variety of translations, sometimes glossed as "A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" or "Entering the Path of Enlightenment." It is a long poem describing the process of enlightenment from the first thought to full buddhahood and is still studied by Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhists today.
An introduction to and commentary on the Bodhisattvacary?vat?ra by the 14th Dalai Lama called A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night was printed in 1994. A commentary on the Patience chapter was provided by the Dalai Lama in Healing Anger (1997), and his commentaries on the Wisdom chapter can be found in Practicing Wisdom (2004). Kunzang Pelden has written a commentary based on that given by Patrul Rinpoche, translated by the Padmakara Translation Group. Patrul Rinpoche was a wandering monk of great scholarship, who dedicated his life to the propagation of the Bodhisattvacary?vat?ra.
Footnotes
References
- Shantideva (1997), The Way of the Bodhisattva, translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, Boston: Shambala, ISBN 1-57062-253-1
- Shantideva (2002), Guide to the Bodhisattva's way of life : how to enjoy a life of great meaning and altruism, translation from Tibetan into English by Neil Elliot, Ulverston (UK); Glen Spey, N.Y.: Tharpa, ISBN 978-0-948006-89-0
- Pema Chödrön (2005), No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva, commentary on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Boston: Shambhala, ISBN 1-59030-135-8
- Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama) (1994), A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night: A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Commentary on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Boston: Shambhala, ISBN 0-87773-971-4
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (1980), Meaningful to Behold - The Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Ulverston (UK); Glen Spey, N.Y.: Tharpa, ISBN 0-948006-35-8
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2005, US ed., 2007), How to Solve Our Human Problems, Tharpa Publications, ISBN 978-0-9789067-1-9
- K. Crosby; A. Skilton (1996), The Bodhicary?vat?ra, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-282979-3
- S. Batchelor (1979), A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
- Kunzang Pelden (2007), The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech. A Detailed Commentary on Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva, Shambala Publications, ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6
- ??ntideva, Cecil Bendall and W. H. D. Rouse (trans)(1922). ?iksh?-samuccaya: a compendium of Buddhist doctrine, compiled by ??ntideva chiefly from earlier Mah?y?na S?tras. London: Murray
- L. D. Barnett (trans) (1909 ). "The Path of light rendered for the first time into Engl. from the Bodhichary?vat?ra of ??nti-Deva: a manual of Mah?-y?na Buddhism, New York, Dutton
External links
- ??ntideva's Bodhisattva-cary?vat?ra English translation; Readable HTML.
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Shantideva by Amod Lele
- Talk about Shantideva by Stephen Batchelor
- Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior, full unpublished translation of the Bodhicaryavatara by Alexander Berzin
- Commentary to Bodhicaryavatara by Patrul Rinpoche (in English )
- Santideva: a bibliography registration needed
- Works by or about Shantideva at Internet Archive
- Works by Shantideva at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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