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Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 4.21

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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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एकक्षणकृतात् पापादवीचौ कल्पमास्यते। अनादिकालोपचितात् पापात् का सुगतौ कथा॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

21

For the sin of one instant one falls into the Avichi6Literally, "unrelenting,’' the worst of the Buddhist hells. hell for one cosmic age; but if it is about sin accumulated since beginningless time, how can you speak of good destinies?

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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སྐད་ཅིག་གཅིག་བྱས་སྡིག་པས་ཀྱང་། །

བསྐལ་པར་མནར་མེད་གནས་འགྱུར་ན། ། ཐོག་མེད་འཁོར་བར་བསགས་སྡིག་གིས། །

བདེ་འགྲོར་མི་འགྲོ་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

21

If through the evil action of a single instant

I must spend an aeon in the hell of Unrelenting Pain, The evils in saṃsāra stored from time without beginning —

No need to say that they will keep me from the states of bliss!

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’on reste tout un kalpa dans les Tourments insurpassables

Pour avoir fait le mal un instant, il va sans dire Que mes méfaits commis dans le samsâra depuis la nuit des temps

Ne me conduiront pas dans les renaissances supérieures.[p.69]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si el mal hecho en un solo instante

lleva al infierno de las Torturas Máximas por una kalpa, el mal acumulado desde tiempos sin principio,

¿es necesario decir que me impedirá ir a los reinos felices?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If one remains in the naraks for eons

Due to one moment of negativity, Then why even mention that one won’t go to the happy realms

Due to the negativity accumulated in beginningless samsara?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If by indulgence in sin for even a single moment,

One is required to remain in Avici Hell for eons; Then, by accumulating sins since beginningless samsara,

What need to mention not finding higher birth?

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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སྐད་ཅིག་གཅིག་བྱས་སྡིག་པས་ཀྱང༌། །

བསྐལ་པ་མནར་མེད་གནས་འགྱུར་ན། ། ཐོག་མེད་འཁོར་བར་བསགས་སྡིག་གིས། །

བདེ་འགྲོར་མི་འགྲོ་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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If I have to abide for kalpas in the Avici Hell

Due to performing even a single negative deed, Needless to say, I will not go to the higher realms When accumulating negative deeds

In samsara from beginningless time.

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.

སྐད་ཅིག་གཅིག་བྱས་སྡིག་པས་ཀྱང་། །

བསྐལ་པར་མནར་མེད་གནས་འགྱུར་ན། ། ཐོག་མེད་འཁོར་བར་བསགས་སྡིག་གིས། །

བདེ་འགྲོར་མི་འགྲོ་སྨོས་ཅི་དགོས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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