4.4

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 4.4

Bodhicaryāvatāra Verses | Chapter 4

Previous Verse | Next Verse

Sources:

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

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.

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

source

translation

यदि चैवं प्रतिज्ञाय साधयेयं न कर्मणा। एतां सर्वां विसंवाद्य का गतिर्मे भविष्यति॥

tm data

Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

4

Having made this promise of the vow, if I do not fulfill it with action, I will have broken my word with all beings. What future state would await me then?

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.

source

translation

གལ་ཏེ་དེ་ལྟར་དམ་བཅས་ནས། །

ལས་ཀྱིས་སྒྲུབ་པར་* སྒྲུབ་པ་ in the source text. མ་བྱས་ན། ། སེམས་ཅན་དེ་དག་ཀུན་བསླུས་པས། །

བདག་གི་འགྲོ་བ་ཅི་འདྲར་འགྱུར། །

tm data

Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

4

For if I bind myself with promises

But fail to carry out my words in deed, Then every being will have been betrayed.

What destiny must lie in store for me?[p.54]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)

Browse other translations

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, ayant formé ce vœu,

Je ne le traduis pas en acte, Je trompe tous les êtres :

Quelle sera alors ma destinée ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Habiéndome comprometido,

si no actuase según mi promesa traicionaría a todos los seres.

¿Cuál sería entonces mi futuro?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

After having made this promise

If one does not engage into the actions, Then one deceives all sentient beings.

How could one become a migrator?[p.4]The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
Stracke, Fedor, trans. The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors: A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. By Gyaltsab Rinpoche. N.p.: Happy Monks Publication, 2016. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If I made such a commitment,

But do not comply with action, Thus deceiving all sentient beings,

To what birth shall I go?

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas

shift + scroll / swipe

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

source

translation

གལ་ཏེ་དེ་ལྟར་དམ་བཅས་ནས། །

ལས་ཀྱིས་བསྒྲུབས་པ་མ་བྱས་ན། ། སེམས་ཅན་དེ་དག་ཀུན་བསླུས་ནས། །

བདག་གི་འགྲོ་བ་ཅི་འདྲར་འགྱུར། །

alt verse 3.4 tm data

Having made this commitment,

If I do not act accordingly, I would deceive all sentient beings.

What kind of being would I become?

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.

གལ་ཏེ་དེ་ལྟར་དམ་བཅས་ནས། །

ལས་ཀྱིས་བསྒྲུབ་པ་མ་བྱས་ན། ། སེམས་ཅན་དེ་དག་ཀུན་བསླུས་པས། །

བདག་གི་འགྲོ་བ་ཅི་འདྲར་འགྱུར། །

tm data