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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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ईर्ष्योत्कृष्टात्समाद्द्वन्द्वो हीनान्मानः स्तुतेर्मदः। अवर्णात्प्रतिघश्चेति कदा बालाद्धितं भवेत्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

12

Jealous of those who are better than them, contentious with their equals, and arrogant toward their inferiors, praise makes them conceited, and censure makes them hostile. Does good ever come from the fool?

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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མཐོ་ལ་ཕྲག་དོག་མཉམ་དང་འགྲན། །

དམའ་ལ་ང་རྒྱལ་བསྟོད་ན་དྲེགས། ། མི་སྙན་བརྗོད་ན་ཁོང་ཁྲོ་སྐྱེ། །

ནམ་ཞིག་བྱིས་ལས་ཕན་པ་ཐོབ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

12

Jealous of superiors, they vie with equals,

Proud to those below, they strut when praised. Say something untoward, they seethe with rage.

What good was ever had from childish folk?

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

Jaloux de leurs supérieurs, ils rivalisent avec leurs égaux ;

Orgueilleux avec les humbles, la louange les rend arrogants. Les propos déplaisants les mettent en colère :

Profitera-t-on un jour de la fréquentation des sots ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Están celosos de los que son superiores,

compiten con sus iguales y son arrogantes con los inferiores, si se les elogia se envanecen y si se les censura se encolerizan,

¿en qué pueden beneficiarme los seres pueriles?[p.131]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

Jealous of the higher and competing with the equal,

Pride towards those lower; conceited when praised. If one expresses something unpleasant, they become angry.

When does one derive benefit from the childish?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Jealous toward superiors, competitive toward equals,

Arrogant toward inferiors, conceited when praised, Anger arises when unpleasant words are said.

When could benefit be gained from the childish?

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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མཐོ་ལ་ཕྲག་དོག་མཉམ་དང་འགྲན། །

དམའ་ལ་ང་རྒྱལ་བསྟོད་ན་འདྲེག ། མི་སྙན་བརྗོད་ན་ཁོང་ཁྲོ་སྟེ། །

ནམ་ཞིག་བྱིས་ལ་ཕན་སེམས་ཡོད། །

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They are jealous of those who are superior

And competitive with their equals. They feel pride when among the inferior, And if praised they become haughty. If something unpleasant is said, they become angry.

When do the foolish have a mind of benefit?

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.

མཐོ་ལ་ཕྲག་དོག་མཉམ་དང་འགྲན། །

དམའ་ལ་ང་རྒྱལ་བསྟོད་ན་དྲེགས། ། མི་སྙན་བརྗོད་ན་ཁོང་ཁྲོ་སྐྱེ། །

ནམ་ཞིག་བྱིས་ལས་ཕན་པ་ཐོབ། །126ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་དང་ཁ་༴ ‘བྱིས་ལ་ཕན་སེམས་ཡོད། །’

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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