8.34

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 8.34

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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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चतुर्भिः पुरुषैर्यावत्स न निर्धार्यते ततः। आशोच्यमानो लोकेन तावदेव वनं व्रजेत्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

35

It would be better to leave for the forest before four men carry you away to your funeral, as your relatives watch and weep.

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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འཇིག་རྟེན་ཀུན་ནས་གདུངས་བཞིན་དུ། །

ཇི་སྲིད་སྐྱེས་བུ་བཞི་ཡིས་ནི། ། དེ་ལུས་དེ་ནི་མ་བཏེག་པ། །

དེ་སྲིད་དུ་ནི་ནགས་སུ་སོང་། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

34

Until the time comes round

When four men carry me away, Amid the grief of worldly folk—

Till then, I will away and go into the forest.

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

Avant que quatre hommes

Vous emportent sur leurs épaules Tandis que les gens ordinaires

Succomberont au chagrin, partez pour la forêt !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Hasta que llegue el momento

en que cuatro hombres me lleven sobre sus hombros en medio del desconsuelo de la gente mundana,

hasta entonces me iré al bosque.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Until this body will be carried

By four people, While the world is mourning,

Remain in the forest.[p.12]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

Go into the forest

Until one's body is lifted up By four pallbearers

And all the worldly mourn.

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.

འཇིག་རྟེན་ཀུན་ནས་གདུང་བཞིན་དུ། །

ཇི་སྲིད་སྐྱེས་བུ་བཞི་ཡིས་ནི། ། དེ་ལས་དེ་ནི་མ་བཏེག་པ། །

དེ་སྲིད་དུ་ནི་ནགས་སུ་སོང་། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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