3. On Learning to Overhear the “Vanishing Poet”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. A NOTE TO THE READER ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. Introduction. Participatory Authorship and Communal Interpretation: The Bodhicaryāvatāra as a “World Classic” 1
6. 1. Śāntideva: The Author and His Project 27
7. 2. Reason and Knowledge on the Path: A Protreptic Reading of the Guide 45
8. 3. On Learning to Overhear the “Vanishing Poet” 60
9. 4. An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 9 84
10. 5. Seeing from All Sides 99
11. 6. Bodies and Embodiment in the Bodhicaryāvatāra 114
12. 7. Ritual Structure and Material Culture in the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice 132
13. 8. Bodhicaryāvatāra and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong) 146
14. 9. Taming Śāntideva: Tsongkhapa’s Use of the Bodhicaryāvatāra 162
15. 10. The Middle Way of the Bodhisattva 180
16. 11. Seeing Sentient Beings: Śāntideva’s Moral Phenomenology 192
17. 12. Śāntideva’s Ethics of Impartial Compassion 209
18. 13. Śāntideva and the Moral Psychology of Fear 221
19. 14. Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva’s Cultivation of Compassion 235
20. Appendix 1: A Guide to Guide Translations: Advice for Students and Instructors 253
21. Appendix 2: Index of Guide Verses Cited 257
22. Bibliography 271
23. Contributors 285
24. Index 291