2.18

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 2.18

Bodhicaryāvatāra Verses | Chapter 2

Previous Verse | Next Verse

Sources:

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

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

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.

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

source

translation

प्रलम्बमुक्तामणिहारशोभा-

नाभास्वरान् दिङ्मुखमण्डनांस्तान्। विमानमेघान् स्तुतिगीतरम्यान्

मैत्रीमयेभ्योऽपि निवेदयामि॥

tm data

Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

18

I also offer these benevolent ones heavenly chapels arrayed in shining clouds adorning the heavenly directions, bedecked with festoons of pearls and rubies, embellished by hymn and song.

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.

source

translation

གཞལ་མེད་ཕོ་བྲང་བསྟོད་དབྱངས་ཡིད་འོང་ལྡན། །[p.12]Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)
Slob dpon zhi ba lha and Mkhan po kun dpal. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1990.

མུ་ཏིག་རིན་ཆེན་རྒྱན་འཕྱང་མཛེས་འབར་བ། ། དཔག་ཡས་ནམ་མཁའི་རྒྱན་གྱུར་དེ་དག་ཀྱང་། །

ཐུགས་རྗེའི་རང་བཞིན་ཅན་ལ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། །

tm data

Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

18

To those whose very nature is compassion

I will give vast palaces, resounding with fair praise, All decked with precious pearls and beauteous pendant gems,

Gleaming jewels that deck the amplitude of space.[p.40]The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra. By Śāntideva. Rev. ed. Shambhala Classics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2006.

Padmakara 2006

The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)

Browse other translations

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 palais démesurés où, au son de louanges mélodieuses,

Flamboient des festons de joyaux et de perles précieuses, Insondables parures de l’espace,

Je ferai l’offrande à ceux dont la nature est compassion.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Inmensurables palacios con el sonido de alabanzas melodiosas

y decorados con preciosas perlas y adornos colgantes que embellecen el espacio infinito

los ofrezco a aquellos cuya naturaleza es compasiva.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

A beautiful crystal palace reverberating with melodious praises

Ablaze with tassels of pearls and precious substances; Infinite, becoming an ornament of the skies,

I also offer to the great compassionate ones.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Celestial mansions filled with sweet melodies of praise, and

Decorated with jewel garlands and pearl tassels Which all become inconceivable ornaments of space,

I offer to Those Whose Nature is Compassion.

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

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

shift + scroll / swipe

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

source

translation

གཞལ་མེད་ཕོ་བྲང་བསྟོད་དབྱངས་ཡིད་འོང་ལྡན། །

མུ་ཏིག་རིན་ཆེན་རྒྱན་འཕྱང་མཛེས་པ་འབར། ། དཔག་ཡས་ནམ་མཁའི་རྒྱན་གྱུར་དེ་དག་ཀྱང༌། །

ཐུགས་རྗེའི་རང་བཞིན་ཅན་ལ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། །

alt verse 2.18 tm data

Inside innumerable palaces there are pleasing melodies of praise.

The palaces are bedecked with pearls and jewels, Beautiful and blazing with light. The light makes space beyond measure glow with splendor. In this way, I make offering

To those having the nature of compassion.

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.

གཞལ་མེད་ཕོ་བྲང་བསྟོད་དབྱངས་ཡིད་འོང་ལྡན། །

མུ་ཏིག་རིན་ཆེན་རྒྱན་འཕྱང་མཛེས་འབར་བ། ། དཔག་ཡས་ནམ་མཁའི་རྒྱན་གྱུར་དེ་དག་ཀྱང་། །

ཐུགས་རྗེའི་རང་བཞིན་ཅན་ལ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། །

tm data

Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

Previous Verse | Next Verse