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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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काये न्यस्तोऽप्यसौ गन्धश्चन्दनादेव नान्यतः। अन्यदीयेन गन्धेन कस्मादन्यत्र रज्यसे॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

65

If you sense a pleasant smell on a human body, it must be only sandal,5That is, sandalwood. I not the body’s own odor. Why do you feel passion for one thing because another arouses you?

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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ལུས་ལ་བསྐུས་པའི་དྲི་དེ་ཡང་། །

ཙནྡན་སོགས་ཡིན་གཞན་མ་ཡིན། ། གཞན་གྱི་དྲི་དེས་གཞན་དག་ལ། །

ཅི་ཡི་ཕྱིར་ན་ཆགས་པར་བྱེད། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

65

The scent that now perfumes the skin

Is sandalwood and nothing else. Yet how is it that one thing’s fragrance

Causes you to long for something else?

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 parfum de ce corps

Est celui du santal et rien d’autre : Alors pourquoi t’attaches-tu

À ce qui n’est pas le corps ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

El sándalo, y no otra cosa,

es la fragancia que perfuma al cuerpo. ¿Cómo es posible que la fragancia

de una cosa te haga desear otra?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

The scents applied to the body

Are among others, sandal, and nothing more. Why be attached to another

Due to a scent separate from it?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Also, the perfume which anoints their bodies is not from them,

It is from something else, such as sandalwood and the like. Why be attached to a body that is

Anointed by the perfume of something else?

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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ལུས་ལ་བསྐུས་པའི་དྲི་དེ་ཡང་། །

ག་པུར་སོགས་ཡིན་གཞན་མིན་ན། ། གཞན་གྱི་དྲི་དེས་གཞན་དག་ལ། །

ཅི་ཡི་ཕྱིར་ན་ཆགས་པར་བྱེད། །

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The scents that anoint the body

Are camphor and so forth and not another’s body. If so, then why are you attached to another’s body

Owing to these scents?

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.

ལུས་ལ་བསྐུས་པའི་དྲི་དེ་ཡང་། །

ཙནྡན་སོགས་ཡིན་གཞན་མ་ཡིན། ། གཞན་གྱི་དྲི་དེས་གཞན་དག་ལ། །

ཅི་ཡི་ཕྱིར་ན་ཆགས་པར་བྱེད། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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