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Mapping the Bodhicaryavatara: Essays on Mahayana Ethics

 
Pabitrakumar Roy (Author)
Synopsis

Mapping the Bodhicaryavatara is an interpretive study of the great Mahayana ethical treatise focusing on Bodhisattvayana as it is variantly called. The Bodhicaryavatara is a world classic, and the author, Santideva is a hallowed name in Mahayana discourse, his views and ideas are regarded as of great authority, and the text is incorporated in the Tengyur, the Tibetan cannon of apocryphal writings.

The Bodhicaryavatara is a philosophical poem, and the theme is the ethicised consciousness of a bodhisattva, the one who vows to dispel the misery of the human kind, and for that noble purpose alone he wishes to attain Buddhahood. His Holiness the Dalai Lama's discourses are replete with inspiration drawn from Santideva's work.

The present study is an analytic- descriptive inquiry into the scope and extent of the paramitas or virtues, and how, when perfected, they lead to the apex of moral endeavour or prajna. The author seeks to situate the text in the continuum of the ethical thinking and literature of the East as well as the West, and even cutting across the so-called Theravada-Mahayana divide. In course of the study the author has raised points of doubt as regards conceptual linkages and ideas in Buddhist ethical thought and practice, and attempted to resolve the issues as well. This is a philosophical study with an East-West perspective in view.

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About the author

Pabitrakumar Roy

Pabitrakumar Roy, presently Fellow of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, was till recently Senior Fellow of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi. Roy taught Philosophy for over three decades at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan and the University of North Bengal. He had been Visisting Faculty at various Indian Universities and British Council Scholar at King's College Cambridge and University of Reading. Roy has authored scores of papers and some of his works are David Hume; Rabindranath Tagore; Hume and Kant: A Study in Linkages, Man and Technology. The areas of his interest lie in Moral Psychology and Aesthetics.

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Bibliographic information

Title Mapping the Bodhicaryavatara: Essays on Mahayana Ethics
Format Hardcover
Date published: 31.12.2011
Edition 1st. ed.
Language: English
isbn 9788179860861
length 392p., 8.5 Inch x 5.5 Inch.