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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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किं वीर्यं कुशलोत्साहस्तद्विपक्षः क उच्यते। आलस्यं कुत्सितासक्तिर्विषादात्मावमन्यना॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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What is fortitude? It is persevering effort in the cultivation of virtue. And what are the adversaries of fortitude? They are indolence, a fondness for evil, despondency, and self-deprecation.

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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བརྩོན་གང་དགེ་ལ་སྤྲོ་བའོ། །

དེ་ཡི་མི་མཐུན་ཕྱོགས་བཤད་བྱ། ། ལེ་ལོ་ངན་ལ་ཞེན་པ་དང་། །

སྒྱིད་ལུག་བདག་ཉིད་བརྙས་པའོ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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Diligence means joy in virtuous ways.83The Tibetan word translated here as ‟diligence” is brtson ʼgrus, a rendering of the Sanskrit vīrya. While expressing a sense of strong endeavor, the Tibetan, according to Shāntideva, suggests a sense of joy and enthusiasm, features that are brought out powerfully in the course of the present chapter. The Sanskrit term carries with it a sense of indomitable strength and courage, and is connected with our words ‟virile,” ‟virago,” as well as ‟virtue.‚”The general sense is one of great courage and perseverance: fearlessness in the face of adversity.

Its contraries have been defined as laziness, An inclination for unwholesomeness,

Defeatism and self-contempt.

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

Qu’est-ce que le courage ? L’enthousiasme pour le bien.

Quels en sont les adversaires ? La paresse, l’attachement au mal,

Le découragement et le mépris de soi.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

La diligencia es deleitarse con la virtud95La palabra que aquí se ha traducido como “diligencia” es brtson ‘grus, una traducción del término sánscrito virya. Además de expresar un sentido de gran esfuerzo, el término tibetano tiene la connotación de alegría y entusiasmo, que le atribuye Shantideva; características que se resaltan intensamente a lo largo de este capítulo. El término sánscrito implica un sentido de fuerza y valor invencibles, y está conectado con las palabras “viril”, “virago” y también con “virtud”. El sentido general es el de un gran valor y perseverancia: intrepidez ante la adversidad..

Lo opuesto puede explicarse como: pereza, gusto por lo negativo,

abatimiento y desprecio por uno mismo.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

What is enthusiasm? It is joy in virtue.

I shall explain its antithesis:

Laziness, grasping at the negative,

And discouragement putting oneself down.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

What is diligence? It is delight in virtue.

Its opposites are explained as

Laziness, craving for the mundane,

Faintheartedness and despising oneself.

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.

བརྩོན་གང་དགེ་ལ་སྤྲོ་བའོ། །104ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་དང་ཁ་༴ ༧.༢ ‘བརྩོན་གང་དགེ་ལ་སྤྲོ་བའོ། །’ ་་་ ༧.༡༥ ‘རྒོད་སོགས་ལ་ཁྱོད་ཅི་ཕྱིར་དགའ། །’ བར་མེད།

དེ་ཡི་མི་མཐུན་ཕྱོགས་བཤད་བྱ། ། ལེ་ལོ་ངན་ལ་ཞེན་པ་དང་། །

སྒྱིད་ལུག་བདག་ཉིད་བརྙས་པའོ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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