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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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कायचित्तविवेकेन विक्षेपस्य न संभवः। तस्माल्लोकं परित्यज्य वितर्कान् परिवर्जयेत्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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Distraction is not possible in one whose body and mind are withdrawn. Therefore, one should renounce the world and abandon the inner discourse of desire.

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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ལུས་དང་སེམས་ནི་དབེན་པ་ཡིས། །

རྣམ་པར་གཡེང་བ་མི་འབྱུང་ངོ་། ། དེ་བས་འཇིག་རྟེན་སྤང་བྱ་ཞིང་། །

རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་དོར། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

2

In solitude, the mind and body

Are not troubled by distraction. Therefore leave this worldly life

And totally abandon mental wandering.

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

Quand le corps et l’esprit sont isolés,

La distraction est impossible. Il faut donc renoncer au monde

Et s’affranchir des pensées.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

En la soledad, el cuerpo y la mente

no tendrán distracciones. Por lo tanto, dejaré la vida mundana

y abandonaré por completo las distracciones mentales.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Through physical and mental isolation Mental wandering does not arise.

Through this, one should abandon the transitory world And perfectly destroy the conceptualizing mind.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

For those who seek to isolate their body and mind,

The distraction of objects will not occur. Therefore, discard this mundane world,

And completely remove all conceptual thoughts.

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.

ལུས་དང་སེམས་ནི་དབེན་པ་ཡིས། །

རྣམ་པར་[p.105-1-23a]གཡེང་བ་མི་འབྱུང་ངོ་། ། དེ་བས་འཇིག་རྟེན་125སྣར་ཐང་དང་པེ་ཅིང་༴ ‘སྡུག་བསྔལ་’སྤང་བྱ་ཞིང་། །

རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་ཡོངས་སུ་དོར། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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