{"id":3635,"date":"2013-11-14T13:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T17:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2014-03-07T10:16:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:16:17","slug":"santideva-on-gifts-altruism-and-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2013\/11\/14\/santideva-on-gifts-altruism-and-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"\u015a\u0101ntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 20, 2013<\/h6>\n<h3>The Compassionate Gift of Vice: \u015a\u0101ntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty<\/i><\/h3>\n<p>Amod Lele<br \/>\nBoston University<\/p>\n<p>The Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhist thinker \u015a\u0101ntideva tells his audience to give out alcohol, weapons and sex for reasons of Buddhist compassion, though he repeatedly warns of the dangers of all these three. The article shows how \u015a\u0101ntideva resolves this issue: these gifts, and gifts in general, attract their recipients to the virtuous giver, in a way that helps the recipients to become more virtuous in the long run. As a consequence, \u015a\u0101ntideva does recommend the alleviation of poverty, but assigns it a much smaller significance than is usually supposed. His views run counter to many engaged Buddhist discussions of political action, and lend support to the \u201cmodernist\u201d interpretation of engaged Buddhist practice.        <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2013\/11\/Lele-Santideva-Gift2.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 20, 2013 The Compassionate Gift of Vice: \u015a\u0101ntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty Amod Lele Boston University The Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhist thinker \u015a\u0101ntideva tells his audience to give out alcohol, weapons and sex for reasons of Buddhist compassion, though he repeatedly warns of the dangers of all these three. The article shows how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2013\/11\/14\/santideva-on-gifts-altruism-and-poverty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u015a\u0101ntideva on Gifts, Altruism, and Poverty<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[71931],"tags":[2720,2702,2761,2594,1470,2611],"class_list":["post-3635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-20-2013","tag-bodhisattva","tag-engaged-buddhism","tag-generosity","tag-mahayana","tag-poverty","tag-santideva"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-WD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}