Poet of the Bodhisattva Path
Shantideva
Your quest companion appears in the header, offers one of their ideas on your home page each day, and cheers you on in lessons. You can change companions at any time, and your progress stays the same.
A Buddhist monk at the great monastery of Nalanda whose poem on the bodhisattva path teaches patience and the exchange of self and other.
Key work: A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Bodhicaryavatara)
“Whence can be found leather enough to cover the whole earth?”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Another’s pain is as real as your own.
Patience is the answer to anger.
Imagine yourself in the other’s place, and act from there.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
On the climb
Exchanging Self and Other
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