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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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हीनादिष्वात्मतां कृत्वा परत्वमपि चात्मनि। भावयेर्ष्यां च मानं च निर्विकल्पेन चेतसा॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

140

If you place yourself in the position of others, even the lowliest, and place them in your self, you may cultivate envy without regret.

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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དམན་སོགས་བདག་ཏུ་བྱས་པ་དང་། །

གཞན་ཉིད་དུ་ནི་བདག་བྱས་ནས། ། རྣམ་རྟོག་མེད་པའི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་སུ། །

ཕྲག་དོག་འགྲན་དང་ང་རྒྱལ་བསྒོམ། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

140

Take others—lower, higher, equal—as yourself,103Compare the sentiments of this and the following stanzas with stanza 12 of the same chapter. Also see appendix 2 for a full explanation.

Identify yourself as “other.” Then, without another thought,

Immerse yourself in envy, pride, and rivalry.

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

M’identifiant aux inférieurs et aux autres,

Et leur offrant ma place, Je méditerai, sans autre pensée,

Sur la jalousie, la rivalité et l’orgueil.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Consideraré que otros inferiores, iguales y superiores son yo mismo116Compárense esta estrofa y las siguientes con la estrofa 12 de este capítulo. V. también el apéndice III.,

y consideraré que yo soy ellos. Entonces, sin ningún otro pensamiento

meditaré en la envidia, la rivalidad y el orgullo.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Having made those lower and the like into self

And having made self into others, With a mind free of thoughts

Meditate on jealousy, competitiveness and pride.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Treat inferiors as oneself;

Hold oneself as the others. Free of any mental conceptual thoughts

Meditate on jealousy, competition, and conceit.

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.

དམན་སོགས་བདག་ཏུ་བྱས་པ་དང་། །

གཞན་ཉིད་དུ་ནི་བདག་བྱས་ནས། ། རྣམ་རྟོག་མེད་པའི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་སུ། །

ཕྲག་དོག་འགྲན་དང་ང་རྒྱལ་བསྒོམ། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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