8.135

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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.

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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आत्मानमपरित्यज्य दुःखं त्यक्तुं न शक्यते। यथाग्निमपरित्यज्य दाहं त्यक्तुं न शक्यते॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

135

If one does not abandon the self, one cannot abandon sorrow, as one cannot escape being burned if one does not avoid fire.

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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བདག་ཉིད་ཡོངས་སུ་མ་བཏང་ན། །

སྡུག་བསྔལ་སྤོང་བར་མི་ནུས་ཏེ། ། ཇི་ལྟར་མེ་ནི་མ་བཏང་ན། །

སྲེག་པ་སྤོང་བར་མི་ནུས་བཞིན། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

135

If this “I” is not relinquished wholly,

Sorrow likewise cannot be avoided. If they do not keep away from fire,

People can’t escape from being burned.

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 renoncer totalement au moi,

On ne peut se libérer de la souffrance, De même que, sans se dégager du feu,

On ne peut éviter les brûlures.[p.156]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Sin deshacerse de este “yo” por completo

no se puede evitar el sufrimiento. Igual que sin apartarse del fuego

no pueden evitarse las quemaduras.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If one does not give oneself up completely,

One will not be able to abandon suffering; E.g., if one continues to hold onto the fire

One is unable to stop being burned.[p.41]The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
Stracke, Fedor, trans. The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors: A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. By Gyaltsab Rinpoche. N.p.: Happy Monks Publication, 2016. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If the self is not completely renounced,

Suffering cannot be abandoned. Just as if a fire is not extinguished,

Burning cannot be stopped.

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas

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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.

བདག་ཉིད་ཡོངས་སུ་མ་བཏང་ན། །

སྡུག་བསྔལ་སྤང་བར་མི་ནུས་ཏེ། ། ཇི་ལྟར་མེ་ནི་མ་བཏང་ན། །

སྲེག་པ་སྤོང་བར་མི་ནུས་བཞིན། །147ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་པར་ཤླཽ་ཀ་འདི་མེད།

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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