7.71

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 7.71

Bodhicaryāvatāra Verses | Chapter 7

Previous Verse | Next Verse

Sources:

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

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.

Sanskrit §No information about the source used.

source

translation

तैलपात्रधरो यद्वद् असिहस्तैर् अधिष्ठितः। स्खलिते मरणत्रासात् तत्परः स्यात् तथा व्रती॥

tm data

Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

70

One who has adopted the vows should be like the man who was forced to carry a bowl filled to the rim with oil under threat of death if he spilled any. As he was watched by sword-bearing guards, he could think of nothing but that bowl, for fear of stumbling and dying.

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.

source

translation

ཡུངས་མར་བཀང་བའི་སྣོད་བསྐུར་ལ། །

རལ་གྲི་ཐོགས་པས་དྲུང་བསྡད་དེ། ། བོ་ན་གསོད་བསྡིགས་འཇིགས་པ་ལྟར། །

བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་ཅན་གྱིས་དེ་བཞིན་སྒྲིམ། །

tm data

Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

71

I will be like a frightened man, a brimming oil-jar in his hand,

And menaced by a swordsman saying, “Spill one drop and you shall die!”

This is how practitioners should hold themselves.

Padmakara 2006

The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)

Browse other translations

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

Celui qui observe la discipline se concentrera

Comme le porteur d’une jarre pleine d’huile En présence d’un homme armé qui menace

De l’exécuter si l’huile se répand.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Como quien lleva una vasija llena de aceite y va aterrado,

pues un hombre armado con una espada lo sigue amenazándolo con matarlo si una gota se derrama,

así es como ha de esforzarse un practicante.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Just as a person that is carrying a jar filled with mustard oil

In front of someone wielding a sword Will be careful not to spill anything out of fear of death,

In the same way should an ascetic be attentive.[p.33]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

As if an executioner were standing

Holding a sword, threatening to kill if A drop spills from an oil-filled container,

Thus should practitioners exert care.

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

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

shift + scroll / swipe

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

source

translation

ཡུངས་མར་བཀང་བའི་སྣོད་བཀུར་ལ། །

རལ་གྲི་ཐོགས་པས་དྲུང་བསྡད་དེ། ། བོ་ན་གསད་བསྡིགས་འཇིགས་པ་ལྟར། །

བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་ཅན་གྱིས་དེ་བཞིན་བསྒྲིམ། །

alt verse 6.27 tm data

This version differs from it's counterparts.

The one practicing discipline should be as attentive

As a frightened man Carrying a vessel filled with mustard seed oil Who is threatened to be killed on spilling a drop

By another wielding a sword.

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.

ཡུངས་མར་བཀང་བའི་སྣོད་བཀུར་ལ། །

རལ་གྲི་ཐོགས་པས་དྲུང་བསྡད་དེ། ། བོ་ན་གསོད་བསྡིགས་འཇིགས་པ་ལྟར། །

བརྟུལ་ཞུགས་ཅན་གྱིས་དེ་བཞིན་སྒྲིམ། །

tm data

Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

Previous Verse | Next Verse