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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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स्पृष्ट उष्णोदकेनापि सुकुमार प्रतप्यसे। कृत्वा च नारकं कर्म किमेवं स्वस्थमास्यते॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

12

When you touch hot water you get burned, my delicate friend. How can you be so indifferent when you have committed acts that will surely lead to hell?

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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ཆུ་ཚན་གྱིས་ནི་རེག་པ་ན། །

གཞོན་ཤ་ཅན་ལ་རབ་ཚ་བའི། ། དམྱལ་བ་ཡི་ནི་ལས་བྱས་ནས། །

ཅི་ཕྱིར་འདི་ལྟར་བདེ་བར་གནས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

12

How can you remain at ease like this

When you have done the deeds that lead To contact on your tender baby-flesh

Of boiling liquids in the hell of Extreme Heat?

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

Comment peux-tu rester aussi tranquille,

Alors que tu as tout fait pour choir dans les enfers Où ta chair si tendre brûlera

Au contact de métaux liquides et brûlants ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

¿Cómo puedes descansar tan tranquilo

habiendo hecho lo que te llevará a que tu carne tierna y delicada se abrase

con líquidos incandescentes en el infierno Intensamente Ardiente?[p.119]La Práctica del Bodisatva
Hervás, María Jesús (Padmakara Translation Group, Spain), trans. La Práctica del Bodisatva: Una Traducción del Bodicharyavatara de Shantideva. Translated from the 2006 English translation of Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher. Novelda, Alicante, Spain: Ediciones Dharma, 2008.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Having created the karma for the hells

Where one’s delicate flesh is burned When scalded with hot water,

Why does one abide happily?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Having created the karma that

Causes the infantile body to be boiled In water in the terrible heat of hell,

How is it possible to relax here?

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.

ཆུ་ཚན་གྱིས་ནི་རེག་པ་ན། །

གཞོན་ཤ་ཅན་ལ་རབ་ཚ་བའི། ། དམྱལ་བ་ཡི་ནི་ལས་བྱས་ནས། །

ཅི་ཕྱིར་འདི་ལྟར་བདེ་བར་གནས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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