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Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 2.43

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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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अङ्गच्छेदार्थमप्यद्य नीयमानो विशुष्यति। पिपासितो दीनदृष्टिरन्यदेवेक्षते जगत्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

44

When a prisoner is led to be maimed, his throat parched, afflicted by thirst, the world appears different to his weak eyes.

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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སྐྱེ་བོ་ཡན་ལག་གཅོད་པའི་སར། །

དེ་རིང་ཁྲིད་པའང་བྲེད་འགྱུར་ཏེ། ། ཁ་སྐམ་མིག་རྩ་ངན་ལ་སོགས། །

སྔ་ལས་གཞན་དུ་འགྱུར་སྣང་ན། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

43

The day they take him to the scaffold,

Where they will tear off his limbs, A man is changed, transfigured by his fear:

His mouth is dry, his eyes start from his brow.

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

Si l’homme qu’on emmène

Au lieu de son supplice Est défiguré par la peur,

La gorge sèche, les yeux exorbités,

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Al condenado que llevan al cadalso

donde sus miembros serán amputados, se le seca la boca, sus ojos se congestionan;

y asustado, ya no es el mismo que antes.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If a person is led today to the place

Where his limbs will be chopped off, he is frightened. His appearance will differ to before,

With a dry mouth, burning eyes and the like.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If one taken to the place of amputation,

Is terrified on that day, With mouth dry, eyes sunken, and

Appearance different than before,

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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སྐྱེ་བོ་ཡན་ལག་བཅད་པའི་སར། །

དི་རིང་ཁྲིད་པའང་བྲེད་འགྱུར་ཏེ། ། ཁ་སྐམས་མིག་རྩ་ངན་ལ་སོགས། །

སྔ་ལས་གཞན་དུ་འགྱུར་སྣང་ན། །

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If an individual is led today

To a place where their limbs will be severed, They will be terrified, Their mouth will go dry, their vision will deteriorate, and so on,

And so their appearance will be transformed from before.

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.

སྐྱེ་བོ་ཡན་ལག་བཅད་པའི་སར། །

དི་རིང་ཁྲིད་པའང་བྱེད་འགྱུར་ཏེ། ། ཁ་སྐམས་མིག་རྩ་ངན་ལ་སོགས། །

སྔ་ལས་གཞན་དུ་འགྱུར་སྣང་ན། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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