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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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परचक्षुर्निपातेभ्योऽप्यासीद्यत्परिरक्षितम्। तदद्य भक्षितं यावत् किमीर्ष्यालो न रक्षसि॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

46

The same face you used to protect from the glances of others, now is being devoured by others. Why don’t you, who were so jealous before, now come to its rescue?

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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གཞན་རྣམས་མིག་གིས་ལྟ་ན་ཡང་། །

གང་ཞིག་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྲུང་གྱུར་པ། ། ཇི་སྲིད་དེ་ནི་དེས་ཟ་ན། །

སེར་སྣ་ཅན་ཁྱོད་ཅིས་མི་བསྲུང་། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

45

That which once you jealously protected,

Shielded from the eyes of other men, Why, miser that you are, don’t you protect it,

Now that it’s the food of graveyard birds?

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

Pourquoi, ô avare, ne protèges-tu plus

Ce que tu protégeais Du regard des autres

Alors qu’on est en train de le dévorer ?[p.141]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Antes la protegías celosamente

de las miradas de otros. ¿Cómo es que siendo tan codicioso

ahora que se la están comiendo no la proteges?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

When others look at it

You strongly protect it. But when it is eaten by them,

Greedy one, why do you not protect it?[p.15]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

That which was completely guarded

Even from another's glance, Miser, why not guard it now

From others eating it as food?

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.

གཞན་རྣམས་མིག་གིས་བལྟ་ན་ཡང་། །

གང་ཞིག་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྲུང་གྱུར་པ། ། ཇི་སྲིད་དེ་ནི་དེས་ཟ་ན། །

སེར་སྣ་ཅན་ཁྱོད་ཅིས་མི་བསྲུང་། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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