8.48

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 8.48

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Dūnhuáng §This version is extracted from the book [[Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)]], a translation of an edition of the text created from three Dūnhuáng manuscripts. A description and sample pages of these can be found on the [https://earlytibet.com/2014/02/04/the-original-bodhicaryavatara/ Early Tibet Blog]. Scans of the actual manuscripts themselves can be found at http://idp.bl.uk

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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यत्र च्छन्नेऽप्ययं रागस्तदच्छन्नं किमप्रियम्। न चेत्प्रयोजनं तेन कस्माच्छन्नं विमृद्यते॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

49

When it is covered by flesh it moves you to passion; why is it unattractive to you once it is uncovered? If you truly did not care for it, why did you caress it when it was covered?

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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གང་ལ་གཡོགས་ཀྱང་འདི་ཆགས་པ། །

དེ་མ་གཡོགས་ན་ཅིས་མི་འདོད། ། དེ་ལ་དགོས་པ་མེད་ན་ནི། །

གཡོགས་པ་ལ་ནི་ཅི་ཕྱིར་འཁྱུད། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

48

You loved it once, when clothed and draped it was.

Well, now it’s naked, why do you not want it? Ah, you say, your need is no more there,

But why did you embrace it, all bedecked and covered?

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

[Le corps] que tu désires quand il est caché,

Pourquoi ne le désires-tu pas quand il est mis à nu ? Si c’est parce que tu n’en ressens pas le besoin,

Pourquoi l’embrasses-tu quand il est couvert ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Cuando estaba cubierto, lo amabas.

Ahora que nada lo cubre, ¿por qué no lo deseas? Si en este estado ya no lo necesitas,

¿por qué lo abrazabas cuando estaba cubierto?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If one is attached although it is dressed

Then why not desire it when it is undressed? If one has no need for it,

Then why embrace it when it is dressed?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If you are attached to a body when it is completely covered,

Why are you not attached to it when it is not covered? If you have no desire for it.

Why embrace it when it is covered?

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas

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Dūnhuáng §This version is extracted from the book Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener), a translation of an edition of the text created from three Dūnhuáng manuscripts. A description and sample pages of these can be found on the Early Tibet Blog. Scans of the actual manuscripts themselves can be found at http://idp.bl.uk

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གང་ལ་གཡོགས་ནའང་ཆགས་འགྱུར་བ། །

དེ་བཤུགས་ནའང་ཅིས་མི་སྡུག ། གལ་ཏེ་དེ་གོས་མེད་ཅེ་ན། །

གཡོགས་པ་ཅི་ཕྱིར་འདོད་པར་བྱེད། །

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When their body was covered in clothes, you craved it.

But now [in the charnel ground] when uncovered, Why is it not dear? If you say, “It is without clothes,”

Then why do you desire it when covered?

Gawang & Wiener 2022

Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)

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.

གང་ལ་གཡོགས་ཀྱང་འདི་ཆགས་པ། །

དེ་མ་གཡོགས་ན་ཅིས་མི་འདོད། ། དེ་ལ་དགོས་པ་མེད་ན་ནི། །

གཡོགས་པ་ལ་ནི་ཅི་ཕྱིར་འཁྱུད། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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