Concept
Shantideva
Overview
Shantideva (Sanskrit: Śāntideva; Chinese: 寂天; Tibetan: ཞི་བ་ལྷ།, THL: Zhiwa Lha; Mongolian: Шантидэва гэгээн; Vietnamese: Tịch Thiên) was an 8th-century CE Indian philosopher, Buddhist monk, poet, and scholar at the mahavihara of Nalanda. He was an adherent of the Mādhyamaka philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Abhayadatta Sri also lists Shantideva as one of the eighty-four mahasiddhas and is known as Bhusuku Pa (布苏固巴).
Two works of Shantideva are extant, the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra and the Śikṣāsamuccaya, both of which were written with the intention of being training manuals for one who intends to follow the path of the bodhisattva. The Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra, in particular, was the subject of both Indian and Tibetan commentaries during the period it was written and has also received large amounts of attention from both academics and lay practitioners in recent years as well including a commentary written by the 14th Dalai Lama.
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Here at any rate was a ceremony--a ceremony the object of which was--to apply, to the purpose of ensuring obsequiousness, the power of the religious sanction. The object, to which it was meant to apply that form, comes, it may be seen, under the general denomination of an _oath_. An oath is either assertory or promissory: if it be an oath of the promissory kind, it is called a _vow_. An oath which is not a vow…
Jeremy Bentham, Not Paul, but Jesus
States what Shantideva is; the author is tied to Shantideva in the knowledge graph.
1. _The Sanc’hya Philosophy of Capila_. The originator of the Sanc’hya is called Capila, and he was an ancient sage of whom it was said that he was a son of Brahma, and one of the seven great Holy men; others say that he was an incarnation of Vishnu, like his disciple Asuri, and that he was identified with fire. As to the age of the Aphorisms (Sutras) of Capila, Colebrooke can say nothing; he merely mentions that…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy
States what Shantideva is.
The families of their people around supply the societies of these monks with an abundant sufficiency of what they require, so that there is no lack or stint. The disciplinary rules are strictly observed by them. The laws regulating their demeanor in sitting, rising, and entering when the others are assembled, are those which have been practised by all the saints since Buddha was in the world down to the present day…
Confucius, Chinese literature
Close in meaning to Shantideva; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Shantideva
Related ideas
- Samadhi
- Kleshas (Buddhism)
- Nalanda mahavihara
- 14th Dalai Lama
- Nirvana
- Nagarjuna
- Poet
- Sanskrit
- Mahayana
- Indian philosophy
- Altruism (ethics)
- Bodhisattva
- Jeremy Bentham
- Merit (Buddhism)
- Free will
- Bengal
- Gujarat
- Madhyamaka
- Vajrayana
- Taṇhā
- South India
- Pema Chödrön
Place in the tradition
Part of Buddhist philosophy.