8.108

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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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मुच्यमानेषु सत्त्वेषु ये ते प्रामोद्यसागराः। तैरेव ननु पर्याप्तं मोक्षेणारसिकेन किम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

108

Those who become oceans of joy whenever living beings attain liberation, have they not achieved thereby the highest bliss? Why would they want the tasteless liberation of individual salvation?

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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སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་ནི་གྲོལ་བ་ན། །

དགའ་བའི་རྒྱ་མཚོ་གང་ཡིན་པ། ། དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ནི་ཆོག་མིན་ནམ། །

ཐར་པ་འདོད་པས་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

108

The ocean-like immensity of joy

Arising when all beings will be freed, Will this not be enough? Will this not satisfy?

The wish for my own freedom, what is that to me?

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

Quand les êtres seront libres,

L’océan de leur joie Ne me suffira-t-il pas ?

Comment lui préférerai-je ma libération ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Cuando todos los seres sean liberados,

ese inmenso océano de alegría ¿no será suficientemente satisfactorio?

¿Qué sentido tiene desear mi propia liberación?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If one liberates sentient beings

One has an ocean of joy. Is this not superior?

What use is it to desire liberation?[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

Isn’t the ocean of joy

Of the liberation of all sentient beings Satisfaction itself?

What use to wish for self liberation?

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.

སེམས་ཅན་རྣམ་པར་གྲོལ་བ་ན། །

དགའ་བའི་རྒྱ་མཚོ་གང་ཡིན་པ། ། དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ནི་ཆོག་མིན་ནམ། །

ཐར་པ་འདོད་པས་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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