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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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कस्यानित्येष्वनित्यस्य स्नेहो भवितुमर्हति। येन जन्मसहस्राणि द्रष्टव्यो न पुनः प्रियः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

5

Why should one impermanent being become attached to another impermanent being, since one will not see again one’s beloved for a thousand lives?

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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མི་རྟག་སུ་ཞིག་མི་རྟག་ལ། །

ཡང་དག་ཆགས་པར་བྱེད་པ་ཡོད། ། དེས་ནི་ཚེ་རབས་སྟོང་ཕྲག་ཏུ། །

སྡུག་པ་མཐོང་བར་ཡོང་མི་འགྱུར། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

5

Beings, brief, ephemeral,

Who strongly cling to what is also transient, Will catch no glimpse of those they love

For many thousands of their future lives.

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

Quel être impermanent peut vraiment

S’attacher à ce qui ne dure pas ? Pendant des milliers d’existences

Il ne verra plus ceux que tant il aimait.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Seres efímeros que se apegan férreamente

a quienes también son transitorios, durante miles de vidas futuras

no volverán a ver a esos seres queridos.[p.130]La Práctica del Bodisatva
Hervás, María Jesús (Padmakara Translation Group, Spain), trans. La Práctica del Bodisatva: Una Traducción del Bodicharyavatara de Shantideva. Translated from the 2006 English translation of Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher. Novelda, Alicante, Spain: Ediciones Dharma, 2008.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

An impermanent person strongly attached

To an impermanent person Will not see anything beautiful

For thousands of lifetimes.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

How can the impermanent

Be genuinely attached to the impermanent? Because of it, the attractive

Cannot be seen for thousands of lives.

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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མི་རྟག་སུ་ཞིག་མི་རྟག་ལ། །

ཡང་དག་ཆགས་པར་བྱེད་པ་ཡོད། ། དེས་ནི་ཚེ་རབས་སྟོང་ཕྲག་དུ། །

སྡུག་པ་མཐོང་བར་ཡོང་མི་འགྱུར། །

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Excessive attachment that someone who is impermanent

Has for others who are impermanent Results in not being able to see one’s loved ones

For one thousand lifetimes.

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.

མི་རྟག་སུ་ཞིག་མི་རྟག་ལ། །

ཡང་དག་ཆགས་པར་བྱེད་པ་ཡོད། ། དེས་ནི་ཚེ་རབས་སྟོང་ཕྲག་ཏུ། །

སྡུག་པ་མཐོང་བར་ཡོང་མི་འགྱུར། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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