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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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काये नौबुद्धिमाधाय गत्यागमननिश्रयात्॥ यथाकामंगमं कायं कुरु सत्त्वार्थसिद्धये॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

70

Conceive of your body as a ship, for it should be a vessel for those who cross the ocean of transmigration. So that sentient beings may reach their destination, let your body move at their will.

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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འགྲོ་དང་འོང་བའི་རྟེན་ཙམ་དུ། །

ལུས་ལ་གྲུ་ཡི་བློ་བཞག་སྟེ། ། སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་དོན་སྒྲུབ་པའི་ཕྱིར། །

ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནི་ལུས་སུ་བསྒྱུར། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

70

Regard your body as a vessel,

A simple boat for going here and there. Make of it a thing that answers every wish

To bring about the benefit of beings.

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

Considèrons le corps comme un navire,

Un moyen d’aller et venir, rien de plus, Et transformons-le en corps d’exaucement

Pour accomplir le bien des êtres.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Considera el cuerpo como un navío,

un simple medio para ir y venir. Haz de él el instrumento que colme tus deseos

a fin de poder beneficiar a los seres.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Regard the body as a boat

Merely for coming and going. Transform it into a wish fulfilling body[p.41]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/.

To accomplish the welfare of sentient beings.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Regard the body as a boat

Merely for coming and going. In order to accomplish the welfare of others,

Transform the body into a wish-fulfilling jewel.

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.

འགྲོ་དང་འོང་བའི་རྟེན་ཙམ་དུ། །

ལུས་ལ་གྲུ་69ཏུན་ཧོང་ཁ་༴ ༥.༧༠ ‘་་་ཡི་བློ་བཞག་སྟེ། །’ ་་་ ༥.༡༠༢ ‘བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་་་’ བར་མི་ཚང་།ཡི་བློ་བཞག་སྟེ། ། སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་དོན་བསྒྲུབ་པའི་ཕྱིར། །

ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནི་ལུས་སུ་བསྒྱུར། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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