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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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यदि केशनखैर्दीर्घैर्दन्तैः समलपाण्डुरैः। मलपङ्कधरो नग्नः कायः प्रकृतिभीषणः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

68

The body in a natural state would be terrifying: a naked body, covered with mud and dung, with long nails and long hair, the teeth crooked and yellow.

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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གལ་ཏེ་སྐྲ་སེན་རིང་བ་དང་། །

སོ་སྐྱ་དྲིར་བཅས་འདམ་གྱི་དྲིས། ། བསྒོས་པས་ལུས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི། །

གཅེར་བུ་འཇིགས་པ་ཉིད་ཡིན་ན། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

68

With lanky hair, with long nails overgrown,

With dirty teeth all reeking with the stink of slime, This body, naked, as it is, untended—

Is indeed a horror to behold!

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

Si, hirsute et griffu,

Les dents jaunâtres, souillées de fange, Le corps est naturellement

Redoutable dans sa nudité,

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Este cuerpo desnudo, dejado tal cual,

con el pelo largo, las uñas crecidas, los dientes sucios, con sarro y mal aliento,

es de hecho tremendamente repulsivo.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If the nature of the naked body

With long hair and nails, yellow teeth And anointed with the scent of foul smelling mud

Is only frightening,

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If nakedness is terrifying,

And the natural body coated in odors, White teeth smelling and stained,

Hair and nails long,

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.

གལ་ཏེ་སྐྲ་སེན་རིང་བ་དང་། །

སོ་སྐྱ་དྲིར་བཅས་འདམ་གྱི་དྲིས། ། བསྒོས་པས་ལུས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནི། །

གཅེར་བུ་འཇིགས་པ་ཉིད་ཡིན་ན། །132སྣར་ཐང་དང་པེ་ཅིང་༴ སོ་སྐྱ་དྲི་མར་བཅས་པ་དང་། །འདམ་གྱི་དྲིས་བསྒོས་གཅེར་བུ་སྟེ། །ལུས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་འཇིག་བཅས་ན། །

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