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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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अकारणेनैव रिपुक्षतानि गात्रेष्वलंकारवदुद्वहन्ति। महार्थसिद्ध्यै तु समुद्यतस्य दुःखानि कस्मान्मम बाधकानि॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

39

Warriors show off, like ornaments, the fruitless scars that enemies have left on their bodies; why then should I become discouraged by suffering, I who am seeking a greater purpose?

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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དོན་མེད་དགྲ་ཡིས་རྨ་སྲོལ་བཏོད་པ་ཡང་། །

ལུས་ལ་རྒྱན་དང་འདྲ་བར་སྲེལ་བྱེད་ན། ། དོན་ཆེན་སྒྲུབ་ཕྱིར་ཡང་དག་བརྩོན་གྱུར་པ། །

བདག་ལ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཅི་ཕྱིར་གནོད་བྱེད་ཡིན། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

39

The wounds inflicted by the enemy in futile wars

Are flaunted by the soldier as a prize. So in the high endeavor, for so great a thing,

Why should I be dismayed by hurt or injury?[p.59]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)

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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

On étale comme des parures sur son corps

Les absurdes blessures infligées par l’ennemi. Comment la souffrance pourrait-elle m’affecter,

Moi qui lutte vraiment pour une noble cause ?[p.72]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si otros lucen como trofeos las cicatrices

dejadas por los enemigos en las luchas sin sentido, ¿por qué va a dañarme el sufrimiento acaecido

al esforzarme noblemente por tan gran objetivo?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

They sustain scars from the enemy for no purpose

And wear them on their body like ornaments. If I strives stridently to achieve the great purpose

Why should sufferings be something that harms me?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If even meaningless scars of injury from enemies

Are displayed like ornaments on the body, Then, how could enduring hardship in genuine exertion

To accomplish the great purpose be regarded as a cause of harm?

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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དོན་མེད་དགྲ་ཡིས་རྨ་སྲོལ་བཏོད་པ་ཡང༌། །

ལུས་ལ་རྒྱན་དང་འདྲ་བར་སྲེལ་བྱེད་ན། ། དོན་ཆེན་སྒྲུབ་ཕྱིར་ཡང་དག་བརྩོམ་གྱུར་པ། །

བདག་ལ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཅི་ཕྱིར་གནོད་བྱེད་ཡིན། །

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When wounded by an enemy,

The wounds are taken to be an ornament of the body Even though they’re not meaningful. Why then are sufferings, due to correctly exterting oneself

In accomplishing great benefit, harmful when they arise?

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.

དོན་མེད་དགྲ་ཡིས་རྨ་སྲོལ་བཏོད་པ་ཡང་། །

ལུས་ལ་རྒྱན་དང་འདྲ་བར་སྲེལ་བྱེད་ན། །45སྣར་ཐང་དང་པེ་ཅིང་༴ ‘རྒྱུན་དང་འདྲ་བར་བསྲེལ་བར་བྱེད། །’ དོན་ཆེན་སྒྲུབ་ཕྱིར་ཡང་དག་བརྩོན་46ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘བརྩོམ་’གྱུར་པ། །

བདག་ལ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཅི་ཕྱིར་གནོད་བྱེད་ཡིན། །

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