8.114

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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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कायस्यावयवत्वेन यथाभीष्टाः करादयः। जगतोऽवयवत्वेन तथा कस्मान्न देहिनः॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

114

Recognizing one’s own faults, and the oceans of virtues possessed by others, one cultivates the practice of giving up one’s own self to take the place of another.

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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ཇི་ལྟར་ལག་པ་ལ་སོགས་པ། །

ལུས་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་ཡིན་འདོད་ལྟར། ། དེ་བཞིན་འགྲོ་བའི་ཡན་ལག་ཏུ། །

ཅི་ཕྱིར་ལུས་ཅན་རྣམས་མི་འདོད། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

114

Just as hands and other limbs

Are thought of as the members of a body, Can we likewise not consider others

As the limbs and members of a living whole?

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

Si l’on considère les bras et les jambes

Comme les membres du même corps, Pourquoi ne considère-t-on pas les êtres

Comme les membres du monde ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Igual que las manos y otros miembros

se consideran partes de un mismo cuerpo, ¿podríamos considerar a cada criatura

como un miembro del conjunto de los seres?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Just as the hands and so forth

Are asserted as parts of the body, Why does one not assert

Embodied beings as limbs of migrators?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Like the belief that the hands and the like

Are the limbs of the body, Why not believe that all bodies

Are branches of a sentient being?

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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ཇི་ལྟར་ལག་པ་ལ་སོགས་པ། །

ལུས་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་ཡིན་འདོད་ལྟར། ། དེ་བཞིན་འགྲོ་བའི་ཡན་ལག་དུ། །

ཅི་ཕྱིར་ལུས་ཅན་རྣམས་མི་འདོད། །

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Just as I consider the hands and so forth,

To be parts of one body, Why do I not consider the various types of beings

As simply sentient beings?

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.

ཇི་ལྟར་ལག་པ་ལ་སོགས་པ། །142ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་པར་ ༨.༡༡༤ ‘ཇི་ལྟར་ལག་པ་ལས་སྩོགས་པ། །’ ་་་ ༨.༡༧༣ ‘གཞན་དག་རྟག་ཏུ་བསྲུང་བར་བྱ། །’ བར་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་ཀྱི་ལེའུའི་ཁོངས་སུ་ཡོད།

ལུས་ཀྱི་ཡན་ལག་ཡིན་འདོད་ལྟར། ། དེ་བཞིན་འགྲོ་བའི་ཡན་ལག་ཏུ། །

ཅི་ཕྱིར་ལུས་ཅན་རྣམས་མི་འདོད། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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