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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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मांसोच्छ्रयमिमं दृष्ट्वा गृध्रैरन्यैश्च भक्षितम्। आहारः पूज्यतेऽन्येषां स्रक्चन्दनविभूषणैः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

47

Upon seeing this mass of flesh devoured by vultures and jackals, you will understand that your gifts of garlands, jewels, and perfumes prepared a feast for others.

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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ཤ་ཡི་ཕུང་པོ་འདི་མཐོང་ནས། །

བྱ་རྒོད་དང་གཞན་ཟ་བྱེད་ན། ། གཞན་གྱི་ཟས་ལ་མེ་ཏོག་གི །

ཕྲེང་བ་ཙནྡན་རྒྱན་གྱིས་མཆོད། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

46

Look, this mass of human flesh,

Is now the fare of carrion beasts— And you would deck with garlands, sandalwood, and jewels,

The food and provender of others?[p.116]The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra. By Śāntideva. Rev. ed. Shambhala Classics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2006.

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

À la vue de ce tas de chair,

Les vautours et les autres bêtes s’en repaîtront : C’est la pitance des autres que tu honorais

De colliers de leurs, de santal et de bijoux !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Mira esa masa de carne

de la que se nutren las bestias carroñeras. ¿A ese alimento de otros seres es al que ofrecerías

guirnaldas de flores, sándalo y joyas?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If vultures and others, upon

Having spotted it, eat this heap of flesh, One is making offerings with flower garlands, sandal

And ornaments to the food of others.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Seeing this heap of meat,

If vultures and others eat it, Why venerate others' food

With flower garlands and sandalwood?

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.

ཤ་ཡི་ཕུང་པོ་འདི་མཐོང་ནས། །

བྱ་རྒོད་དང་གཞན་ཟ་བྱེད་ན། ། གཞན་གྱི་ཟས་ལ་མེ་ཏོག་གི །

ཕྲེང་བ་ཙནྡན་རྒྱན་གྱིས་མཆོད། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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