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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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कृताकृतापरीक्षोऽयं मृत्युर्विश्रम्भघातकः। स्वस्थास्वस्थैरविश्वास्य आकस्मिकमहाशनिः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

34

Death does not look into what has been done and what remains to be done. It destroys the overconfident. The strong and healthy, as well as the sick, should not trust it. Always unexpected, it is a bolt of lightning.

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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ཡིད་བརྟན་མི་རུང་འཆི་བདག་འདི། །

བྱས་དང་མ་བྱས་མི་སྡོད་པས། ། ན་དང་མི་ན་ཀུན་གྱིས་ཀྱང་། །

གློ་བུར་ཚེ་ལ་ཡིད་མི་བརྟན། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

33

We cannot trust the wanton Lord of Death.

The task complete or still to do, he will not wait. In health or sickness, therefore, none of us can trust

Our fleeting, momentary lives.

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

On ne peut faire confiance au Seigneur de la Mort

Car il n’attendra pas que nous ayons ini. Que l’on soit malade ou en bonne santé,

La vie est brève et imprévisible.[p.51]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

El Señor de la Muerte39“El Señor de la Muerte”, “La Muerte”, Yama... no es un ser sino un símbolo que personifica la muerte. es impredecible

y no espera, estén hechas o por hacer nuestras tareas. Estemos sanos o enfermos, no hay certeza

de si llegará o no inminentemente.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

This capricious lord of death

Does not rely upon whether it is accomplished or not. Hence everybody, the sick and healthy,

Cannot trust their adventitious life.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

The untrustworthy lord of death

Never waits; whether done or not, This temporary life cannot be trusted,

Whether sick or healthy.

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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ཡིད་བརྟན་མི་རུང་འཆི་བདག་འདི། །

བྱས་དང་མ་བྱས་མི་སྡོད་པས། ། ན་དང་མི་ན་ཀུན་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང༌། །

གློ་བུར་ཚེ་ལ་ཡིད་མི་བརྟན། །

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The Lord of Death, unsuitable to trust,

Does not wait until my work is, or is not, finished. Therefore, all beings, whether sick or well,

Should not place their trust in this fleeting life.

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.

ཡིད་བརྟན་མི་རུང་འཆི་བདག་འདི། །

བྱས་དང་མ་བྱས་མི་སྡོད་པས། ། ན་དང་མི་ན་ཀུན་གྱིས་ཀྱང་། །

གློ་བུར་ཚེ་ལ་ཡིད་མི་བརྟན། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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