2.17

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 2.17

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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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रत्नप्रदीपांश्च निवेदयामि

सुवर्णपद्मेषु निविष्टपङ्क्तीन्। गन्धोपलिप्तेषु च कुट्टिमेषु

किरामि पुष्पप्रकरान् मनोज्ञान्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

17

On golden, lotus-shaped trays I present to them lamps inlaid with precious stones. On floors sprinkled with perfumed waters and powders I strew delicate flowers.

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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གསེར་གྱི་པདྨ་ཚར་དུ་དངར་བ་ཡི། །

རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོན་མེ་རྣམས་ཀྱང་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། ། ས་གཞི་བསྟར་བ་སྤོས་ཀྱིས་བྱུགས་པ་དེར། །

མེ་ཏོག་ཡིད་འོང་སིལ་མ་དགྲམ་པར་བགྱི། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

17

I will offer precious lamps

Arranged in rows on lotuses of gold, A carpet of sweet flowers scattering

Upon the level, incense-sprinkled ground.

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

Je leur offre des lampes de joyaux

Sur des lotus d’or parfaitement alignés ; Je répands des pétales de leurs exquises

Sur le sol souple et parfumé.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Les ofrezco preciosas lámparas

dispuestas en guirnaldas de lotos dorados. Sobre el suelo liso y rociado de perfume,

esparzo pétalos de preciosas flores.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

I also offer precious lamps Mounted in golden lotuses.

On clean ground anointed with incense I arrange delightful fresh flowers.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

I offer well-arranged precious lamps Designed as golden lotuses,

Upon well-laid ground anointed with scented water and Bestrewn with beautiful flower petals.

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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གསེར་གྱི་པད་མ་ཚར་དུ་དངར་བ་ཡི། །

རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོན་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱང་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། ། ས་གཞི་བསྟར་བ་སྤོས་ཀྱིས་བྱུགས་པ་དེར། །

མེ་ཏོག་ཡིད་འོང་སིལ་མ་བཀྲམ་བར་བགྱི། །

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I also offer lamps studded with jewels

Sitting on strings of lotuses of gold. On level ground scented with fragrances,

I spread out flower petals pleasing to mind.

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.

གསེར་གྱི་པདྨ་ཚར་དུ་དངར་བ་ཡི། །

རིན་ཆེན་སྒྲོན་མ་རྣམས་ཀྱང་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། ། ས་གཞི་བསྟར་བ་སྤོས་ཀྱིས་བྱུགས་པ་དེར། །

མེ་ཏོག་ཡིད་འོང་སིལ་མ་དགྲམ་པར་བྱ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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