2.39

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 2.39

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

रात्रिन्दिवमविश्राममायुषो वर्धते व्ययः । आयस्य चागमो नास्ति न मरिष्यामि किं न्वहम्॥

tm data

Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

40

Day and night, without respite, my life is spent, with no possibility of restitution. How could it be that I would not die?

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

ཉིན་མཚན་སྡོད་པ་ཡོང་མེད་པར། །

ཚེ་འདི་རྟག་ཏུ་གོད་འགྱུར་ཞིང་། ། སྣོན་པ་གུད་ནས་འོང་མེད་ན། །[p.15]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.

བདག་ལྟ་འཆི་བར་ཅིས་མི་འགྱུར། །

tm data

Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

39

Never halting night or day,

My life drains constantly away, And from no other source does increase come.

How can there not be death for such as me?[p.43]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

Sans interruption, jour et nuit,

Cette vie ne cesse de s’écourter Sans que nul ne puisse la prolonger.

Pourquoi donc un être comme moi ne mourrait-il pas ?[p.52]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Sin detenerse, día y noche,

la vida transcurre inexorablemente. Si no es posible extenderla,

¿tengo otra posibilidad más que la de morir?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

As day and night have no abiding13Gyaltsab-je: “If the word establish is used it refers to the life of day and night being individually established.” This is refering to an alternative Tibetan translation: “As day and night are not established.”

This life is continually becoming less; If there is no adding to the weakening,[p.20]The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
Stracke, Fedor, trans. The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors: A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. By Gyaltsab Rinpoche. N.p.: Happy Monks Publication, 2016. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/.

Why would someone like me not die?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

For without staying even by day or night,

This life is constantly diminishing: With no other source of supplementation,

Why would one like me not die?

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

ཉིན་མཚན་སྡོད་པ་ཡོང་མེད་པར། །

ཚེ་འདི་རྟག་དུ་གོད་འགྱུར་ཞིང༌། ། སྣན་བ་གུད་ནས་འོང་མེད་ན། །

བདག་ལྟ་འཆི་བར་ཅིས་མི་འགྱུར། །

alt verse 2.39 tm data

The days and nights of this life will not remain unchanging,

But will continually decline. Having declined, there is no way life can be extended.

Why shouldn’t a person like myself die?

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.

ཉིན་མཚན་སྡོད་པ་ཡོད་མེད་པར། །

ཚེ་འདི་རྟག་ཏུ་གོད་འགྱུར་ཞིང་། ། སྣོན་པ་གུད་ནས་འོང་མེད་ན། །

བདག་ལྟ་འཆི་བར་ཅིས་མི་འགྱུར། །

tm data

Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

Previous Verse | Next Verse