8.133

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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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त्यक्त्वान्योन्यसुखोत्पादं दृष्टादृष्टसुखोत्सवम्। अन्योन्यदुःखनाद् घोरं दुःखं गृह्णन्ति मोहिताः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

133

Instead of working for the only thing that brings happiness in this and the next world, that is, to give happiness one to another, deluded beings embrace the most horrible pains in order to harm one 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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མཐོང་དང་མ་མཐོང་བདེ་འགྲུབ་པའི། །

ཕུན་སུམ་བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཡོངས་བོར་ཞིང་། ། གཞན་ལ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བྱས་པའི་རྒྱུས། །

རྨོངས་རྣམས་[p.95]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.

སྡུག་བསྔལ་མི་བཟད་ལེན། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

133

Casting far away abundant joys

That may be gained in this or future lives, Because of bringing harm to other beings,

I ignorantly bring myself intolerable pain.

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

En renonçant à la félicité parfaite

Où le bonheur visible et invisible s’accomplit, Je fais souffrir les autres et m’attire ainsi,

Sottement, d’insupportables tourments.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Por haber dejado de lado lo que proporciona

abundante bienestar y felicidad en ésta y otras vidas, y haber causado daño a otros seres,

ignorantemente he acumulado un inmenso sufrimiento.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

One gives up the perfect bliss and happiness That establishes the seen and unseen happiness.

Due to the cause of harming others, They are deluded and take on frightening suffering.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If successful pleasure and joy which accomplish

Both visible and invisible happiness are completely disregarded, As a result of causing suffering for others,

The ignorant accept unbearable suffering.

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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མཐོང་དང་མ་མཐོང་བདེ་འགྲུབ་པའི། །

ཕན་ཚུན་བདེ་སྐྱེད་ཡོང་བོར་ཞིང་། ། གཞན་ལ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བྱས་པའི་རྒྱུས། །

རྨོངས་རྣམས་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མི་ཟད་ལེན། །

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We completely abandon the cause

Of abundant happiness and well-being, Which accomplishes happiness that is evident and hidden. Through such ignorance we obtain inexhaustible suffering

And cause suffering to arise in others.

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.

མཐོང་དང་མ་མཐོང་བདེ་འགྲུབ་པའི། །

ཕུན་སུམ་146ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘ཕན་ཚུན་’ ཡོད་པ་དེ་ལེགས་སྦྱར་གྱི་དཔེ་དང་ཡང་མཐུན།བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཡོངས་བོར་ཞིང་། ། གཞན་ལ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བྱས་པའི་རྒྱུས། །

རྨོངས་པས་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མི་བཟད་ལེན། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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