- Mahayana Buddhism, Early works to 1800, Doctrines, Bodhisattvas
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About the book
- Author
- Śāntideva
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Tharpa Publications
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780954879013
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“Homage to the enlightened Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.”
Shantideva (Sk: Śāntideva; Zh: 寂天; Tib: ཞི་བ་ལྷ། (Shyiwa Lha, Wylie: zhi ba lha); Mn: Шантидэва гэгээн) was an 8th-century Indian Buddhist scholar at Nalanda University and an adherent of the Madhyamaka philosophy of Nagarjuna. The Chan Ssu Lun of the Chinese Madhyamika school 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 who 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 Butön and Jetsun Tāranātha. Recent scholarship has brought to l
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