Jonathan C. Gold is associate professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of The Dharma’s Gatekeepers: Sakya Paṇḍita 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).

• A Note to the ReaderAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Participatory Authorship and Communal Interpretation: The Bodhicaryāvatāra as a “World Classic,” by Jonathan C. Gold1. Śāntideva: The Author and His Project, by Paul Harrison2. Reason and Knowledge on the Path: A Protreptic Reading of the Guide, by Amber Carpenter3. On Learning to Overhear the “Vanishing Poet,” by Sonam Kachru4. An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 9, by Matthew T. Kapstein5. Seeing from All Sides, by Janet Gyatso6. Bodies and Embodiment in the Bodhicaryāvatāra, by Reiko Ohnuma7. Ritual Structure and Material Culture in the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice, by Eric Huntington8. Bodhicaryāvatāra and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong), by Thupten Jinpa9. Taming Śāntideva: Tsongkhapa’s Use of the Bodhicaryāvatāra, by Roger Jackson10. The Middle Way of the Bodhisattva, by Douglas S. Duckworth11. Seeing Sentient Beings: Śāntideva’s Moral Phenomenology, by Jay L. Garfield12. Śāntideva’s Ethics of Impartial Compassion, by Charles Goodman13. Śāntideva and the Moral Psychology of Fear, by Bronwyn Finnigan14. Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva’s Cultivation of Compassion, by John DunneAppendix 1: A Guide to Guide Translations: Advice for Students and InstructorsAppendix 2: Index of Guide Verses CitedBibliographyContributorsIndex

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