3.9

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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

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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क्षुत्पिपासाव्यथां हन्यामन्नपानप्रवर्षणैः। दुर्भिक्षान्तरकल्पेषु भवेयं पानभोजनम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

8

May I bring an end to the torments of hunger and thirst with rivers of food and drink, and may I myself become food and drink when the minor cosmic cycle ends with a great famine.

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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ཟས་དང་སྐོམ་གྱི་ཆར་ཕབ་སྟེ། །

བཀྲེས་དང་སྐོམ་པའི་གནོད་པ་བསལ། ། མུ་གེའི་བསྐལ་པ་བར་མའི་ཚེ། །

བདག་ནི་ཟས་དང་སྐོམ་དུ་གྱུར། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

9

Raining down a flood of food and drink,

May I dispel the ills of thirst and famine. And in the aeons marked by scarcity and want,49A reference to the antarakalpa, an age of extreme decline figuring in the ancient Indian conception of temporal sequences, in which the quality of human life is gradually reduced until the age of ten years marks the summit of growth and capacity. It is a time of extreme instability and famine.

May I myself appear as drink and sustenance.

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

Puissé-je, en faisant pleuvoir nourritures et boissons,

Bannir les maux de la faim et de la soif Et, pendant les âges de famines,

Devenir moi-même aliment et breuvage ![p.59]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Que elimine el tormento del hambre y la sed

haciendo caer una lluvia de bebidas y alimentos. Que durante el periodo de carestía de una kalpa48Se refiere al periodo final de una antara-kalpa, que es un periodo de carestía extrema, enfermedades e inestabilidad. V. nota 22.

sea yo mismo la bebida y el alimento.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

With a rain of food and drink

May I clear the suffering of hunger and thirst. During the intermediate eon of famine

May I become food and drink.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

During the time of famine.

May I become food and drink, and Bestow a rain of food and drink,

Able to dispel the pain of starvation and thirst.

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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ཟས་དང་སྐོམ་གྱི་ཆར་ཕབ་སྟེ། །

བཀྲེས་དང་སྐོམ་བའི་གནོད་པ་བསལ། ། མུ་གེའི་བསྐལ་པ་བར་མའི་ཚེ། །

བདག་ནི་ཟས་དང་སྐོམ་དུ་གྱུར། །

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May a rain of food and drink

Dispel all harm of hunger and thirst. During the famine of the intermediate kalpa,

May I become food and drink.

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.

ཟས་དང་སྐོམ་གྱི་ཆར་ཕབ་སྟེ། །

བཀྲེས་དང་སྐོམ་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བསལ། ། མུ་གེའི་བསྐལ་པ་བར་མའི་ཚེ། །

བདག་ནི་ཟས་དང་སྐོམ་དུ་གྱུར། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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