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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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दुःखं कस्मान्निवार्यं चेत्सर्वेषामविवादतः। वार्यं चेत्सर्वमप्येवं न चेदात्मापि सत्त्ववत्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

103

An Objector Interjects: (103ab) Why should one avoid sorrow at all then? The Author Replies: (103cd) Because all beings agree on wanting to avoid it. If it is to be avoided it should all be avoided in the same way. If it is not to be avoided, then it should not be avoided for oneself also, as much as for other sentient beings.

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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ཅི་ཕྱིར་ཀུན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ནི། །

བཟློག་པར་བྱ་ཞེས་བརྩད་དུ་མེད། ། གལ་ཏེ་བཟློག་ནའང་ཐམས་ཅད་བཟློག །[p.91]Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)
Slob dpon zhi ba lha and Mkhan po kun dpal. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1990.

དེ་མིན་བདག་ཀྱང་སེམས་ཅན་བཞིན། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

103

“But why dispel the pains of all?”

You cannot argue in this way! If “my” pain is removed, so too should that of “others.”

If theirs is not, then neither should be mine.

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

– Pourquoi faut-il arrêter les souffrances

De tous [les êtres] ? – [Parce qu’]elles sont incontestables. S’il faut les arrêter, arrêtons-les toutes !

Sinon, pas plus la mienne qu’une autre !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Pero, ¿por qué hay que eliminar el sufrimiento de todos?

¡Esto es algo incuestionable! Si mi dolor se elimina, también ha de eliminarse el de los otros.

Si el suyo no, el mío, como el de ellos, tampoco.[p.143]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

The statement ‘Why should one eliminate

The sufferings of others?’, is not up for debate. If one reverses, then one reverses all,

If not, then one is like sentient beings.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

There is no need to argue;

Everyone's suffering must be repelled. If repelling, repel for all.

If not, the self is the same as other.

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.

ཅི་ཕྱིར་ཀུན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ནི། །

བཟློག་པར་བྱ་ཞེས་བརྩད་དུ་མེད། ། གལ་ཏེ་བཟློག་ནའང་ཐམས་ཅད་བཟློག །

དེ་མིན་བདག་ཀྱང་སེམས་ཅན་བཞིན། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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