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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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निरूप्यः सर्वयत्नेन चित्तमत्तद्विपस्तथा। धर्मचिन्तामहास्तम्भे यथा बद्धो न मुच्यते॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

40

One should observe with the greatest care the elephant of the mind, so that, bound to the post that is reflection on dharma, it will not break loose.

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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སེམས་ཀྱི་གླང་ཆེན་མྱོས་པ་ནི། །

ཆོས་ལ་སེམས་པའི་ཀ་ཆེན་ལ། ། ཇི་ལྟར་བཏགས་པ་མི་འཆོར་བར། །

དེ་ལྟར་འབད་པ་ཀུན་གྱིས་བརྟག །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

40

This rampant elephant, my mind,

Once tied to that great post, reflection on the Teachings, Must now be watched with all my strength

That it might never slip away.

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

Attachez l’éléphant fou de votre esprit

Au grand pilier de la réflexion sur les enseignements Sans lui permettre de s’échapper,

Et faites tout votre possible pour l’examiner.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Una vez atado ese elefante loco, mi mente,

al gran pilar de recordar las enseñanzas, me esforzaré al máximo en observarlo

para que no pueda escaparse.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Check with all your effort

That the crazy elephant mind Does not loose the great Dharma pillar

The way it was fastened to it.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Analyze with utmost effort

How the drunken elephant of the mind Is leashed to the great pillar of thoughts of Dharma

So that it will not slip from the leash.

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

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

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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.

སེམས་ཀྱི་གླང་ཆེན་མྱོས་པ་ནི། །

ཆོས་ལ་སེམས་པའི་ཀ་ཆེན་ལ། ། ཇི་ལྟར་བཏགས་པ་མི་འཆོར་བར། །

དེ་ལྟར་འབད་པ་ཀུན་གྱིས་བརྟག །63ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་པར་ཤླཽ་ཀ་འདི་མེད།

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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