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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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तेन सत्त्वपरो भूत्वा कायेऽस्मिन् यद्यदीक्षसे। तत्तदेवापहत्यास्मात् परेभ्यो हितमाचर॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

139

Therefore, being concerned only with other beings, whatever you might see in this your body that may be of value to them, you should take away from yourself and use it to benefit others.

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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དེས་ན་སེམས་ཅན་གཙོར་བྱས་སྟེ། །

བདག་གི་ལུས་ལ་ཅི་མཐོང་བ། ། དེ་དང་དེ་ནི་ཕྲོགས་ནས་ཀྱང་། །

གཞན་དག་ལ་ནི་ཕན་པར་སྤྱོད། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

139

Thus sentient beings will be my chief concern.

And everything I see my body has Will all be seized and offered

For the use and service of all other beings.

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

Puisque les êtres sont plus importants,

Je m’emparerai de tout ce que Je verrai comme appartenant à mon corps

Et l’emploierai au service d’autrui.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Para mí los seres serán lo más importante.

Por eso, me apropiaré de todo aquello que vea que tiene mi cuerpo

y lo usaré para beneficiarlos a ellos.[p.148]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

Then, having to put sentient beings first,

Whatever is observable on one’s body Though having it stolen

One uses it for the benefit of others.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Therefore, work principally for others;

Whatever can be found on one's own body, Rob it and use it

For their benefit.

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.

དེས་ན་སེམས་ཅན་གཙོར་བྱ་སྟེ། །148ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ༨.༡༣༩ ‘དེས་ན་སེམས་ཅན་གཙོར་བྱས་ཏེ། །’ ་་་ ༨.༡༥༤ ‘འཁོར་བ་དག་ལ་གནོད་པ་བྱས། །’ བར་མེད།

བདག་གི་ལུས་ལ་ཅི་མཐོང་བ། ། དེ་དང་དེ་ནི་ཕྲོགས་ནས་ཀྱང་། །

གཞན་དག་ལ་ནི་ཕན་པར་སྤྱོད། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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