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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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तत्र दोषक्षयारम्भे लेशोऽपि मम नेक्ष्यते। अप्रमेयव्यथाभाज्ये नोरः स्फुटति मे कथम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

34

Yet, I do not see in myself even a fraction of the fortitude required to destroy these faults.

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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ཉེས་ཟད་རྩོམ་པ་དེ་ཡི་ནི། །

ཆ་ཡང་བདག་ལ་མ་མཐོང་ན། ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པའི་གནས། །

བདག་ཀོ་ཅིའི་ཕྱིར་སྙིང་མ་གས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

34

And if I find within myself

No sign that faults are even starting to be cleansed, Why does my heart not burst asunder,

Destined as I am for boundless pain?

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

Or, en moi, je ne vois pas même une parcelle du courage

Qui permettrait d’éliminer ces fautes: Pourquoi mon coeur, qui est le siège

D’insondables souffrances, n’éclate-t-il pas?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Y si no veo que esté haciendo

ni lo más mínimo para destruir esas faltas, ¿cómo es que no me explota el corazón

por el infinito sufrimiento que me aguarda?[p.122]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

If it is not observable that one has

Started to exhaust faults even partially, One becomes an abode for boundless suffering.

Why does one's heart not burst?[p.17]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/.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If the effort to put an end to even

A fraction of them cannot be found in me, As an abode of immeasurable suffering,

Why doesn't my heart break?

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.

ཉེས་ཟད་རྩོམ་པ་དེ་ཡི་ནི། །

ཆ་ཡང་བདག་ལ་མ་མཐོང་ན། ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པའི་གནས། །

བདག་གོ་ཅི་ཕྱིར་སྙིང་མ་གས། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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