2.19

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 2.19

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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

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.

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सुवर्णदण्डैः कमनीयरूपैः

संसक्तमुक्तानि समुच्छ्रितानि। प्रधारयाम्येष महामुनीनां

रत्नातपत्राण्यतिशोभनानि॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

19

Over the heads of these great sages I spread out tall and beautiful parasols made of precious stones, strung together with pearls, with graceful golden handles.

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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རིན་ཆེན་གདུགས་མཛེས་གསེར་གྱི་ཡུ་བ་ཅན། །

ཁོར་ཡུག་རྒྱན་གྱི་རྣམ་པ་ཡིད་འོང་བརྒྱན། ། དབྱིབས་ལེགས་ལྟ་ན་སྡུག་པ་བསྒྲེང་བ་ཡང་། །

རྟག་ཏུ་ཐུབ་དབང་རྣམས་ལ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

19

Fair and precious parasols adorned with golden shafts,

All bordered round with hems of precious jewels, Upright, well-proportioned, pleasing to the eye,

Again, all this I give to all the Buddhas.

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 splendides parasols à manche d’or

Frangés d’ornements enchanteurs, Dressant leur belle forme, plaisante au regard :

Cela aussi, je l’offre constamment aux seigneurs des sages.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Preciosas sombrillas con mangos de oro,

bellamente decoradas en sus bordes con joyas, desplegadas y con maravillosas formas agradables de contemplar,

también las ofrezco continuamente a todos los budas.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Precious beautiful parasols with golden handles,

Seamed by dazzling ornaments, Well-shaped and uplifting when seen,

I always offer to the able ones.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Beautiful precious canopies with golden handles,

Circumferences adorned with ornaments of attractive form, Erected in fine shapes which steal the mind.

I forever offer to the Lords of Sages.

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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རིན་ཆེན་གདུགས་མཛེས་གསེར་གྱི་ཡུ་བ་ཅན། །

འཁོར་ཡུག་རྒྱན་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པ་ཡིད་འོང་བརྒྱན། ། དབྱིབས་ལེགས་བལྟ་བ་སྡུག་པ་བསྒྲེང་བ་ཡང༌། །

རྟག་དུ་ཐུབ་པ་རྣམས་ལ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། །

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At all times, I offer to the Lord of Sages beautiful umbrellas

Made of precious [cloth] having handles of gold, Their periphery adorned with pleasing ornaments. When the umbrellas are raised,

They are of excellent shape and beautiful to behold.

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.

རིན་ཆེན་གདུགས་མཛེས་གསེར་གྱི་ཡུ་བ་ཅན། །

ཁོར་ཡུག་རྒྱན་གྱི་རྣམ་པ་ཡིད་འོང་ལྡན། ། དབྱིབས་ལེགས་བལྟ་ན་སྡུག་པ་བསྒྲེང་བ་ཡང་། །

རྟག་ཏུ་ཐུབ་དབང་རྣམས་ལ་དབུལ་བར་བགྱི། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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