Gold / Duckworth / Teiser Readings of Santideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54990-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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Reihe: Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature

Santideva’s eighth-century work the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice (Bodhicaryavatara) is one of the crucial texts of the Buddhist ethical and philosophical tradition. This book serves as a companion to this Indian Buddhist classic, illuminating the Guide’s many philosophical, literary, ritual, and ethical dimensions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gold, Jonathan C.

Duckworth, Douglas S.

Teiser, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note to the Reader
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Participatory Authorship and Communal Interpretation: The Bodhicaryavatara as a “World Classic”
Jonathan C. Gold
1. Santideva: The Author and His Project
Paul Harrison
2. Reason and Knowledge on the Path: A Protreptic Reading of the Guide
Amber Carpenter
3. On Learning to Overhear the “Vanishing Poet”
Sonam Kachru
4. An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 9
Matthew T. Kapstein
5. Seeing from All Sides
Janet Gyatso
6. Bodies and Embodiment in the Bodhicaryavatara
Reiko Ohnuma
7. Ritual Structure and Material Culture in the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
Eric Huntington
8. Bodhicaryavatara and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong)
Thupten Jinpa
9. Taming Santideva: Tsongkhapa’s Use of the Bodhicaryavatara
Roger Jackson
10. The Middle Way of the Bodhisattva
Douglas S. Duckworth
11. Seeing Sentient Beings: Santideva’s Moral Phenomenology
Jay L. Garfield
12. Santideva’s Ethics of Impartial Compassion
Charles Goodman
13. Santideva and the Moral Psychology of Fear
Bronwyn Finnigan
14. Innate Human Connectivity and Santideva’s Cultivation of Compassion
John Dunne
Appendix 1: A Guide to Guide Translations: Advice for Students and Instructors
Appendix 2: Index of Guide Verses Cited
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

GoldJonathan C.:
Jonathan Gold (PhD, Philosophy of Religions, Chicago) is Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of Paving the Great Way: Vasdubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy (Columbia, 2014), which was an AAR Fikrst Book Award Honorable Mdention, and The Dharma's Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet (SUNY, 2007). In 2008 he was named Chair of the Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy.DuckworthDouglas S.:
Douglas Duckworth (PhD, Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, Virginia) is Associate Professor of Religion at Temple University. He is the author of Jamgon Mipam: His Life and Teachings (Shambhala, 2011) and Mipam on Buddha-Nature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition (SUNY, 2008) and the translator and editor of Botrul: Distinguishing the Views and Philosophies: Illuminating Emptiness in a Twentieth-Century Tibetan Classic (SUNY, 2011).Jonathan C. Gold is associate professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of The Dharma’s Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet (2007) and Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu’s Unifying Buddhist Philosophy (Columbia, 2015).

Douglas Duckworth is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Religion at Temple University. His latest works include Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature (2019) and a translation of an overview of the Wisdom Chapter of the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice by Künzang Sönam, entitled The Profound Reality of Interdependence (2019).