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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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चर्मण्युत्पाटिते यस्माद्भयमुत्पद्यते महत्। कथं ज्ञात्वापि तत्रैव पुनरुत्पद्यते रतिः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

64

Since the body deprived of its skin and flesh gives you such horror, how could you, having seen it in this state, take pleasure in it now that it is alive?

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་ལས་པགས་པའི་ཁ་ཕྱེ་ན། །

འཇིགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་སྐྱེ་འགྱུར་བ། ། ཤེས་ཀྱང་ཇི་ལྟར་དེ་ཉིད་ལ། །

ཕྱིར་ཞིང་དགའ་བ་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

64

When their skins are peeled away,

You feel great horror and revulsion. Now that you have understood,

How can you still take joy in such a thing?

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

Une fois leur peau enlevée,

Ils t’inspirent grand-peur, Et tu le sais : alors pourquoi

T’entiches-tu toujours des corps ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si le quitases la piel al cuerpo,

sentirías un profundo horror. Habiendo entendido eso,

¿cómo es posible todavía disfrutar con él?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Although one knows that

If the skin of the body is opened One will generate great fear,

One continues to repeatedly delight in it.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

When the skin is peeled away,

Great fear will arise. Even knowing that,

Why does joy in it still arise?

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་ཞིག་པགས་པའི་ཁ་ཕྱེ་ན། །

འཇིགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་སྐྱེ་འགྱུར་བར། ། ཤེས་ཀྱང་ཇི་ལྟར་དེ་ཉིད་ལ། །

ཕྱིར་ཞིང་དགའ་བ་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར། །

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When the skin of the body is opened,

We experience great fear. Knowing this, how is it that this very body

Will again give rise to joy?

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་ལས་པགས་པའི་ཁ་ཕྱེ་ན། །

འཇིགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་སྐྱེ་འགྱུར་བར། ། ཤེས་ཀྱང་ཇི་ལྟར་དེ་ཉིད་ལ། །

ཕྱིར་ཞིང་དགའ་བ་སྐྱེ་བར་འགྱུར། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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