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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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भस्मनिष्ठावसानेयं निश्चेष्टान्येन चाल्यते। अशुचिप्रतिमा घोरा कस्मादत्र ममाग्रहः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

178

In the end the body will turn to ashes. Moved by another, it has no movement of its own, this loathsome, impure image. Why do I hold on to it?

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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ཐ་མར་ཐལ་བའི་མཐར་གཏུགས་ཤིང་། །

མི་གཡོ་གཞན་གྱིས་བསྐྱོད་བྱ་བ། ། མི་གཙང་གཟུགས་ནི་མི་བཟད་པ། །

འདི་ལ་ཅི་ཕྱིར་བདག་ཏུ་འཛིན། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

178

Dust and ashes are the body’s final state—

This body which, inert, is moved by other forces. This form so frightening and foul—

Why do I so regard it as my “self”?

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

Cette effrayante forme impure,

Cette chose inerte que d’autres animent Et qui finira en cendres,

Pourquoi la prendre pour moi ?[p.163]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Esta forma humana es sucia y asusta,

a este cuerpo inerte lo mueven otras cosas y finalmente terminará siendo polvo,

¿por qué en eso concibo mi “yo”?[p.153]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

Its final conclusion is to separate,

It is motionless but moves through the force of others. The impure body is terrible,

Why hold onto it as your own?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Exhausted into ashes in the end,

Immovable, yet moved by others, This unbearable, impure form,

Why hold it as a self?

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.

ཐ་མར་ཐལ་བའི་མཐར་གཏུགས་ཤིང་། །

མི་གཡོ་གཞན་གྱིས་བསྐྱོད་བྱ་བ། ། མི་གཙང་གཟུགས་ནི་མི་བཟད་པ། །

འདི་ལ་ཅི་ཕྱིར་བདག་ཏུ་འཛིན། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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