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Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 1.16

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Dūnhuáng §This version is extracted from the book [[Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)]], a translation of an edition of the text created from three Dūnhuáng manuscripts. A description and sample pages of these can be found on the [https://earlytibet.com/2014/02/04/the-original-bodhicaryavatara/ Early Tibet Blog]. Scans of the actual manuscripts themselves can be found at http://idp.bl.uk

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Standard Tibetan §Padmakara used the 1990 edition printed by si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang: [[Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)]]. Also found in Derge Tengyur D3871, dbu ma, vol. 105, la 1b1–40a7.

Tsadra Critical Edition §This text was created by comparing four versions of the text from Derge, Cone, Narthang, and Peking Tengyurs from BDRC scans, along with Dunhuang manuscripts IOL Tib J 628, 629, and 630. When Tibetan readings were problematic, the Sanskrit texts from GRETIL and LTB (Oslo) were consulted.

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गन्तुकामस्य गन्तुश्च यथा भेदः प्रतीयते। तथा भेदोऽनयोर्ज्ञेयो याथासंख्येन पण्डितैः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

16

The wise should distinguish the two in the same way that one distinguishes someone who only wishes to depart from someone who has already set out, respectively.

Gomez 2017

How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)

Standard Tibetan §Padmakara used the 1990 edition printed by si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang: Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990). Also found in Derge Tengyur D3871, dbu ma, vol. 105, la 1b1–40a7.

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འགྲོ་བར་འདོད་དང་འགྲོ་བ་ཡི། །

བྱེ་བྲག་ཇི་ལྟར་ཤེས་པ་ལྟར། ། དེ་བཞིན་མཁས་པས་འདི་གཉིས་ཀྱི། །

བྱེ་བྲག་རིམ་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

16

As corresponding to the wish to go

And then to setting out, The wise should understand respectively

The difference that divides these two.

Padmakara 2006

The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)

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Standard Tibetan §Padmakara used the 1990 edition printed by si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang: Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990). Also found in Derge Tengyur D3871, dbu ma, vol. 105, la 1b1–40a7. - Other translations

De même que l’on fait la différence

Entre vouloir partir et partir effectivement, Le sage comprendra cette différence

Dans le bon ordre.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Así como sabe cuál es la diferencia

entre querer ir e ir, el sabio debe entender las diferencias

correspondientes a estos dos aspectos.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

In the way one understands the difference between

Wishing to go and going, In the same way those proficient should

Understand the difference of the two sequentially.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Like understanding the distinction between

Wishing to go and going, Likewise, the wise should understand

The distinction between these two respectively.

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas

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Dūnhuáng §This version is extracted from the book Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener), a translation of an edition of the text created from three Dūnhuáng manuscripts. A description and sample pages of these can be found on the Early Tibet Blog. Scans of the actual manuscripts themselves can be found at http://idp.bl.uk

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འགྲོ་བར་འདོད་དང་འགྲོ་བ་ཡི། །

བྱེ་བྲག་ཇི་ལྟར་ཤེས་པ་ལྟར། ། དེ་བཞིན་མཁས་པས་འདི་གཉིས་ཀྱི། །

བྱེ་བྲག་རིམ་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །

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Just like knowing the distinctions

Between desiring to go and going, So, the learned should know the distinctions

Between these two successive stages.

Gawang & Wiener 2022

Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)

Tsadra Critical Edition §This text was created by comparing four versions of the text from Derge, Cone, Narthang, and Peking Tengyurs from BDRC scans, along with Dunhuang manuscripts IOL Tib J 628, 629, and 630. When Tibetan readings were problematic, the Sanskrit texts from GRETIL and LTB (Oslo) were consulted.

འགྲོ་བར་འདོད་དང་འགྲོ་བ་ཡི། །

བྱེ་བྲག་ཇི་ལྟར་ཤེས་པ་ལྟར། ། དེ་བཞིན་མཁས་པས་འདི་གཉིས་ཀྱི། །

བྱེ་བྲག་རིམ་བཞིན་ཤེས་པར་བྱ། །5ཏུན་ཧོང་ཁ་༴ དབུ་ནས་འདིའི་བར་མི་ཚང་།

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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