8.47

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 8.47

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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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निश्चलादपि ते त्रासः कङ्कालादेवमीक्षितात्। वेतालेनेव केनापि चाल्यमानाद्भयं न किम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

48

If you tremble now like this when you see an unmoving skeleton, why are you not scared when one spirit or another moves the skeleton of a living person?

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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རུས་གོང་ཉིད་དུ་མཐོང་ནས་ནི། །

མི་འགུལ་ཡང་ནི་ཁྱོད་སྐྲག་ན། ། རོ་ལངས་བཞིན་དུ་འགའ་ཡིས་ཀྱང་། །

བསྐྱོད་པར་གྱུར་ན་ཅིས་མི་འཇིགས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

47

Look again, this heap of bones—

Inert and dead. Why, what are you so scared of? Why did you not fear it when it walked around,

Just like a risen corpse propelled by some strange influence?

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

La peur te gagne à la vue

De ce tas d’os immobiles : Pourquoi n’en avais-tu pas peur

Quand il se déplaçait comme un mort-vivant ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Ver ese montón de huesos

te da miedo aunque no se mueva. ¿Por qué no te asustaba cuando se movía

como un cadáver animado por algo?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If one is afraid merely by seeing a skeleton,

Even if it does not move, Then why is one not afraid

If some even move, like zombies?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If you are afraid of unmoving remains,

Why not be afraid of one Who moves by other forces,

Like a walking corpse?

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.

རུས་གོང་ཉིད་དུ་མཐོང་ནས་ནི། །

མི་འགུལ་ཡང་ནི་ཁྱོད་སྐྲག་ན། ། རོ་ལངས་བཞིན་དུ་འགའ་ཡིས་ཀྱང་། །

བསྐྱོད་པར་གྱུར་ན་ཅིས་མི་འཇིགས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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