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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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किं पुनर्भैरवाकारैर्यमदूतैरधिष्ठितः। महात्रासज्वरग्रस्तः पुरीषोत्सर्गवेष्टितः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

45

How will I feel when the terrible messengers of Yama take hold of me, consumed by fever and fear, sunken in my own excrement?

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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གཤིན་རྗེའི་ཕོ་ཉ་འཇིགས་འཇིགས་ལྟའི། །

ཤ་ཚུགས་ཅན་གྱིས་བཟུང་གྱུར་ཅིང་། ། འཇིགས་ཆེན་ནད་ཀྱིས་ཐེབས་གྱུར་པ། །

རབ་ཏུ་ཉམ་ཐག་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

44

No need to say how stricken I shall be

When overcome and sick with dreadful fear, I’m seized by forms so horrible to see,

The frightful servants of the Lord of Death.

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

Que ferai-je quand les messagers de la Mort

Aux formes effroyables s’empareront de moi Et que, malade de terreur,

J’atteindrai le comble du désespoir ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Qué decir de lo terrible que será mi tormento

cuando los temibles mensajeros de Yama con sus formas horrendas me atrapen

y enferme de un pánico inmenso.[p.65]La Práctica del Bodisatva
Hervás, María Jesús (Padmakara Translation Group, Spain), trans. La Práctica del Bodisatva: Una Traducción del Bodicharyavatara de Shantideva. Translated from the 2006 English translation of Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher. Novelda, Alicante, Spain: Ediciones Dharma, 2008.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

One will be held by the terrifying

Helpers of the Lord of Death And befallen by the terrifying sickness,

What need is there to mention the very pitiable?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Then when the hosts of the lord of death look angrily, and

Seized by their ferocious forms, Catching the disease of great terror,

What need to say how enfeebled I will become?

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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གཤིན་རྗེའི་ཕོ་ཉས་འཇིགས་འཇིགས་ལྟའི། །

ཤ་ཚུགས་ཅན་གྱིས་གཟུང་འགྱུར་ཅིང༌། ། འཇིགས་ཆེན་ནད་ཀྱིས་ཐེབས་གྱུར་པ། །

རབ་དུ་ཉམས་ཐག་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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In comparison, there is no need to speak

Of the utter torment experienced When struck by the malady of great fear Connected with the physical manifestations

Of the fearsome messengers of the Lord of Death grabbing at you.

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.

གཤིན་རྗེའི་ཕོ་ཉ་འཇིགས་འཇིགས་ལྟའི། །

ཤ་ཚུགས་ཅན་གྱིས་བཟུང་གྱུར་ཅིང་། ། འཇིགས་ཆེན་ནད་ཀྱིས་ཐེབས་གྱུར་པ། །

རབ་ཏུ་ཉམ་ཐག་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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