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Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 8.44

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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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तन्मुखं त्वत्परिक्लेशमसहद्भिरिवाधुना। गृध्रैर्व्यक्तीकृतं पश्य किमिदानीं पलायसे॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

45

This same face is now unveiled by vultures as if they could not bear your longing. Look at it. Why do you now turn away?

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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ཁྱོད་[p.83]Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)
Slob dpon zhi ba lha and Mkhan po kun dpal. Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 1990. ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་གདོང་དེ་ནི། །

ད་ལྟ་མངོན་སུམ་གྱུར་པ་བཞིན། ། བྱ་རྒོད་ཀྱིས་བསལ་བྱས་མཐོང་ནས། །

ད་ལྟ་ཅི་ཕྱིར་འབྱེར་བར་བྱེད། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

44

That face for which you languished so . . .

Well, here it is, now nakedly exposed. The vultures have uncovered it for you to see.

What’s this? You run away so soon?

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

Ce visage, objet de ton tourment,

À présent le voici tel quel. Mais pourquoi t’enfuis-tu donc

En le voyant dénudé par les vautours ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Esa cara por la que languidecías

ahora puedes verla claramente tal como es gracias a los buitres.

¿Cómo es que ahora huyes de ella?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Just as the face of the afflictions

Is obvious to you now, When you see it then, after it is revealed

By the vultures, why do you want to leave?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

You fool, that is the very face

As you see it now. Why do yon run away

Seeing her face lifted by vultures?

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.

ཁྱོད་ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་གདོང་དེ་ནི། །

ད་ལྟ་མངོན་སུམ་གྱུར་པ་བཞིན། ། བྱ་རྒོད་ཀྱིས་བསལ་བྱས་མཐོང་ནས། །

ད་ལྟ་ཅི་ཕྱིར་འབྱེར་བར་བྱེད། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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