8.134

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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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उपद्रवा ये च भवन्ति लोके

यावन्ति दुःखानि भयानि चैव। सर्वाणि तान्यात्मपरिग्रहेण

तत्किं ममानेन परिग्रहेण॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

134

Whatever calamities, pains, and fears there are in this world, they all are due to grasping at the self. What will I gain by grasping at it in this manner?

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་དག་ན་འཚེ་བ་གང་ཡོད་དང་། །

འཇིགས་དང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་གྱུར་པ། ། དེ་ཀུན་བདག་ཏུ་འཛིན་པ་ལས་བྱུང་ན། །

འདྲེ་ཆེན་དེས་ཀོ་བདག་ལ་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

134

All the harm with which this world is rife,

All fear and suffering that there is, Clinging to the “I” has caused it!

What am I to do with this great demon?

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 toutes les violences qui ont lieu dans le monde,

Toutes les peurs et toutes les souffrances Émanent de l’attachement au moi,

Qu’ai-je à faire de ce démon ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Todos los males de este mundo,

todo el miedo y el dolor que existe los ha causado el aferramiento al “yo”.

¿Qué voy a hacer con este gran demonio?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Whatever harm there is in the transitory worlds,

Whatever danger and suffering come into existence, If all that arises from self-cherishing,

Then what does this demon of self-cherishing do for me?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If whatever violence exists in any world,

Whatever suffering and terrors exist, All arise from clinging to the self,

What use is this great ghost to me?

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་དག་ན་འཚེ་བ་གང་ཡོད་དང་། །

འཇིགས་དང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་གྱུར་པ། ། དེ་ཀུན་བདག་དུ་འཛིན་པ་ལས་བྱུང་ན། །

འདྲེ་ཆེན་དེས་ཀོ་བདག་ལ་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །

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Whatever conflicts there are in the worlds,

However many fears and sufferings — All arise from self-clinging.

Therefore, of what use to me is this great demon?

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་དག་ན་འཚེ་བ་གང་ཡོད་དང་། །

འཇིགས་དང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཇི་སྙེད་ཡོད་གྱུར་པ། ། དེ་ཀུན་བདག་ཏུ་འཛིན་པ་ལས་བྱུང་ན། །

འདྲེ་ཆེན་དེས་ཀོ་བདག་ལ་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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