8.132

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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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आस्तां तावत्परो लोके दृष्टोऽप्यर्थो न सिध्यति। भृत्यस्याकुर्वतः कर्म स्वामिनोऽददतो भृतिम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

132

What is more, even if you leave aside future lives, even in this life if the servant did not carry out his work or if the lord did not pay him the salary that is due to him, no visible results would obtain.

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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འཇིག་རྟེན་ཕ་རོལ་ཕར་ཞོག་གི །

བྲན་གཡོག་ལས་མི་བྱེད་པ་དང་། ། རྗེ་དཔོན་རྔན་པ་མི་སྟེར་བའི། །

ཚེ་འདིའི་དོན་ཡང་འགྲུབ་མི་འགྱུར། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

132

Leaving future lives outside the reckoning,

Even this life’s needs are not fulfilled: The servants do not do their work,

And masters do not pay the wages earned.

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

Sans même parler de l’au-delà,

Dans cette vie rien ne se réalisera, Puisque le serviteur n’accomplira pas sa tâche

Et le maître ne lui paiera pas son salaire.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Sin hablar ya de otras vidas,

ni siquiera las necesidades de ésta serán satisfechas: los sirvientes no harán su trabajo

y los patrones no pagarán los sueldos.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Leaving aside the world beyond,

Servants and helpers will not work and Masters will not pay wages,

One will not even achieve the purpose of this life.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Needless to say in the next world,

Even in this world, purposes will not be accomplished. Masters will not give wages;

Servants will not perform work.

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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འཇིག་རྟེན་ཕ་རོལ་འཕར་ཞོག་གི །

ཚེ་འདི་དོན་ཀྱང་མི་འགྲུབ་སྟེ། ། བྲན་གཡོག་ལས་བྱེད་མི་བཏུབ་ལ། །

རྗེ་དཔོན་འཚོ་བ་སྟེར་མི་བྱེད། །

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Leaving aside the next life,

If servants do not perform work And masters do not pay wages,

Even in this life no benefit can be accomplished.

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.

འཇིག་རྟེན་ཕ་རོལ་ཕར་ཞོག་གི །

བྲན་གཡོག་ལས་མི་བྱེད་པ་དང་། ། རྗེ་དཔོན་རྔན་པ་མི་སྟེར་བའི། །

ཚེ་འདིའི་དོན་ཡང་འགྲུབ་མི་འགྱུར། །145ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘འཇིག་རྟེན་ཕ་རོལ་ཕར་ཞོག་གི །ཚེ་འདྀ་དོན་ཀྱང་མྱྀ་འགྲུབ་སྟེ། །བྲན་གཡོག་ལས་བྱེད་མྱྀ་བཏུབ་ལ། །རྗེ་དཔོན་འཚོ་བ་སྟེར་མྱྀ་བྱེད། །’

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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