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Dūnhuáng §This version is extracted from the book [[Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)]], a translation of an edition of the text created from three Dūnhuáng manuscripts. A description and sample pages of these can be found on the [https://earlytibet.com/2014/02/04/the-original-bodhicaryavatara/ Early Tibet Blog]. Scans of the actual manuscripts themselves can be found at http://idp.bl.uk

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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तस्मात् कर्म अवसानेऽपि निमज्जेत् तत्र कर्मणि। यथा मध्याह्न संतप्त आ आदौ प्राप्तसराः करी॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

65

Therefore, no sooner has one finished a task than he should proceed to the next, as an elephant tortured by the midday sun rushes in as soon as he finds a water hole.

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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དེ་ལྟས་ལས་ཚར་ཕྱིན་བྱའི་ཕྱིར། །

ཉི་མ་ཕྱེད་དུས་གདུངས་པ་ཡི། ། གླང་ཆེན་མཚོ་ཕྲད་མཚོར་འཇུག་ལྟར། །

ལས་དེ་ལ་ཡང་འཇུག་པར་བྱ། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

66

The elephant, tormented by the noonday sun,

Will dive into the waters of a lake, And likewise I must plunge into my work

That I might bring it to completion.

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

Aussi, pour mener ma tâche

Jusqu’à son terme, je l’entreprendrai Comme l’éléphant qui, tourmenté par le soleil de midi,

Entre dans les eaux d’un lac.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Así, para llevar a cabo una tarea

hasta completarla, he de zambullirme en ella como un elefante atormentado por el sol de mediodía

se zambulle en las aguas de un lago.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Therefore, to complete one's actions,

One should engage in the action Like an elephant tormented at noon

That, when coming upon a lake, immerses itself in it.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Thus, to complete a task,

Like an elephant suffering from afternoon heat Who seeing a lake runs to it,

So engage in that task.

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas

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Dūnhuáng §This version is extracted from the book Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener), a translation of an edition of the text created from three Dūnhuáng manuscripts. A description and sample pages of these can be found on the Early Tibet Blog. Scans of the actual manuscripts themselves can be found at http://idp.bl.uk

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དེ་ལྟས་ལས་ཚར་ཕྱིན་བྱ་ཕྱིར། །

ཉི་མ་ཕྱེ་དུས་གདུངས་པ་ཡི། ། གླང་ཆེན་མཚོ་ཕྲད་མཚོར་འཇུག་ལྟར། །

ལས་དེ་ལ་ནི་འཇུག་པར་བྱ། །

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In this way, in order to complete the actions I have undertaken,

I must engage in them Just like the elephant, Tormented by the heat of noon,

Enters a lake upon encountering it.

Gawang & Wiener 2022

Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)

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.

དེ་ལྟས་ལས་ཚར་ཕྱིན་བྱའི་ཕྱིར། །

ཉི་མ་ཕྱེད་དུས་གདུངས་པ་ཡི། ། གླང་ཆེན་མཚོ་ཕྲད་མཚོར་འཇུག་ལྟར། །

ལས་དེ་ལ་ཡང་འཇུག་པར་བྱ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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