{"id":14318,"date":"2020-05-07T08:47:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=14318"},"modified":"2020-05-14T10:06:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:06:33","slug":"david-eckel","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/profiles\/david-eckel\/","title":{"rendered":"David Eckel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bh\u0101viveka on the Bodhisattva Path<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am working to complete an edition, annotated translation, and critical study of a key but often overlooked Indian\u00a0Buddhist text on the path that leads a bodhisattva or \u201cfuture Buddha\u201d to the achievement of\u00a0Buddhahood. The text consists of the first three chapters of Bh\u0101viveka\u2019s \u201cHeart of the\u00a0Middle Way\u201d (madhyamakah\u1e5bdayak\u0101rik\u0101\u1e25), together with a prose commentary known as\u00a0\u201cThe Flame of Reason\u201d (tarkajv\u0101l\u0101). This three-chapter \u201cintroduction\u201d to the bodhisattva path was the model in style and\u00a0substance for some of the most important later Indian accounts of the bodhisattva path,\u00a0including the \u201cIntroduction to the Middle Way\u201d (madhyamak\u0101vat\u0101ra) by Candrak\u012brti and the\u00a0\u201cIntroduction to the Bodhisattva Practice\u201d (bodhi[sattva]cary\u0101vat\u0101ra) by \u015a\u0101ntideva (both\u00a0eighth-century). The publication of Bh\u0101viveka\u2019s \u201cintroduction\u201d in a single volume is meant to\u00a0give a solid critical and interpretative foundation to the study of Mah\u0101y\u0101na literature about\u00a0the path, not only in these other influential \u201cintroductions\u201d but in the wider genre of\u00a0bodhisattva literature throughout the Buddhist world. The intention will be to publish this\u00a0book as a companion volume to my edition, translation, and critical study of chapters 4 and\u00a05 of the same text in Bh\u0101viveka and His Buddhist Opponents (Harvard Department of\u00a0Sanskrit and Indian Studies, 2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16690,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14320,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14318\/revisions\/14320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}