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Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 8.57

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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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विघनार्कांशुविकचं मुक्त्वा तरुणपङ्कजम्। अमेध्यशौण्डचित्तस्य का रतिर्गूथपञ्जरे॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

57

What pleasure can you find in a box of filth, your mind drunk with impurity, that you wall even ignore a tender lotus blooming under a sun in cloudless sky?

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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སྤྲིན་བྲལ་ཉི་ཟེར་གྱིས་ཕྱེ་བའི། །

པདྨ་གཞོན་ནུ་སྤངས་ནས་ནི། ། མི་གཙང་ཞེན་པའི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་ནི། །

མི་གཙང་གཟེབ་ལ་ཅི་ཕྱིར་དགའ། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

57

Why does the mind, intent on filthiness,

Neglect the fresh young lotus blossom, Opened in the sunlight of a cloudless sky,

To take joy rather in a sack of dirt?

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, si attaché à l’impur, l’esprit

Préfère-t-il un sac de choses malpropres Au jeune lotus qui s’ouvre

Sous les rayons d’un soleil sans nuage ?[p.143]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

¿Por qué la mente, atraída por lo sucio,

ignora el loto fresco que se abre con los rayos de sol de un cielo sin nubes

y disfruta de ese saco de inmundicias?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Why reject the fresh lotus

With petals unfolded by sunlight unobstructed by clouds, And take joy in the impure cage

With a mind grasping for the impure?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Having discarded a young lotus that has

Blossomed from the rays of a cloudless sun, Why does this mind that clings to impurity

Find joy in a cage of impurity?

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.

སྤྲིན་བྲལ་ཉི་ཟེར་གྱིས་ཕྱེ་བའི། །

པདྨ་གཞོན་ནུ་སྤངས་ནས་ནི། ། མི་གཙང་ཞེན་པའི་སེམས་ཀྱིས་ནི། །

མི་གཙང་གཟེབ་ལ་ཅི་ཕྱིར་དགའ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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