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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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रक्षसीमं मनः कस्मादात्मीकृत्य समुच्छ्रयम्। त्वत्तश्चेत्पृथगेवायं तेनात्र तव को व्ययः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

60

Why do you protect this frame as if it were your own self? If it is something different from yourself, why should its end matter to you?

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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ལུས་འདི་བདག་གིར་བཟུང་* བདག་གིས་གཟུང་ in the source text. བྱས་ནས། །

ཡིད་ཁྱོད་ཅི་ཕྱིར་སྲུང་བར་བྱེད། ། ཁྱོད་དང་འདི་གཉིས་སོ་སོ་ན། །

དེས་ཀོ་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

60

Why, O mind, do you protect this body,

Taking it to be your own? You and it are each a separate entity;

How ever can it be of use to you?[p.70]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

Pourquoi, ô mon esprit, protèges-tu

Ce corps en le tenant pour tien ? S’il est différent de toi,

Qu’en as-tu donc à faire ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

¡Oh mente, ¿por qué proteges

este cuerpo considerándolo como tuyo?! Si tú y él sois entidades separadas,

¿para qué puede servirte?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Having claimed the body as mine

Why guard the mind? Since both of you are distinct

What is it doing for you?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

O Mind, why guard this body,

Clinging to it as the self? If it and you are separate

What good is it to you?

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.

ལུས་འདི་བདག་གིར་གཟུང་བྱས་ནས། །

ཡིད་ཁྱོད་ཅི་ཕྱིར་སྲུང་བར་བྱེད། ། ཁྱོད་དང་འདི་གཉིས་སོ་སོ་ན། །

དེས་ཀོ་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །68ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་དང་ཁ་༴ ‘ཅི་ཞིག་གནོད། །’

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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