* Thanks to Nalini Bhushan, Caroline Sluyter, Susanne Mrozik and Jan Westerhoff for useful
comments on an earlier draft of this essay, and to Barbra Clayton for insightful critique at the …

Abstract Shantideva's Bodhisattvacharyavatara (A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life)
holds a unique place in Mahayana Buddhism akin to that of the Dhammapada in Hinayana …

Bodhicaryuvatära, Paul Williams claims that the argument for altruism made by Säntideva in
this, his most famous work, is fundamentally flawed. In an article of considerable length and …

The book you are reading contains fifteen scholars' assessments of what you might want to
know as you read and study a much beloved work of late Indian Buddhism, the Guide to …

What do we gain from reading Śāntideva as a moral phenomenologist? For one thing, we
avoid the procrustean strategy of locating him in the standard Western doxography of ethical …

Guide) is rightly praised as a literary masterpiece of philosophy and ethics, so some modern
readers might be surprised to learn of the importance of ritual and devotion both in …

Madhyamaka is one of two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism, alongside
Yogācāra. 1 It is best known for its philosophy of emptiness (śūnyavāda) as articulated by …

Myriads of scholarly sources have studied various aspects of being a bodhisattva; yet few of
them look into the practicability of the bodhisattva path in the modern era. The present …

Western Buddhists often believe and proclaim that metaphysical speculation is irrelevant to
Buddhist ethics or practice. This view is problematic even with respect to early Buddhism …

The perfections are the virtues that are fully developed by a bodhisattva (Buddha-intraining)
to become a Buddha. All Buddhist traditions recognize that the perfections are practiced …