8.78

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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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छिद्यन्ते कामिनः केचिदन्ये शूलसमर्पिताः। दृश्यन्ते दह्यमानाश्च हन्यमानाश्च शक्तिभिः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

78

Moved by passion, they end up mutilated, or impaled on spears; one also sees them burnt to death, or pierced by lances.

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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འདོད་ལྡན་ལ་ལ་ལུས་ཀྱང་བཅད། །

ཁ་ཅིག་གསལ་ཤིང་རྩེ་ལ་བཙུགས། ། ཁ་ཅིག་མདུང་ཐུང་དག་གིས་བསྣུན། །

ཁ་ཅིག་བསྲེགས་པ་དག་ཀྱང་སྣང་། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

78

Some, as the result of craving,

Have their bodies slashed, impaled on pointed stakes. Some are wounded, run through by the lance,

While some are put to death by fire.

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

Mus par le désir, certains

Sont mutilés, d’autres empalés, D’autres encore percés

Par des lances ou brûlés.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Algunos, debido a su codicia,

son mutilados, empalados en una estaca o atravesados con lanzas y puñales.

Hay otros que son quemados vivos.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Some desirous even cut their bodies,

Some are impaled from beneath on wooden stakes,[p.23]The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
Stracke, Fedor, trans. The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors: A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. By Gyaltsab Rinpoche. N.p.: Happy Monks Publication, 2016. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/. Some are pierced by daggers,

And some are seen being burned.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

The bodies of covetous ones are slashed,

Others are pierced by the tips of tridents, Others are stuck by spears.

Some are even seen to be burned.

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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འདོད་ལྡན་ལ་ལ་ལུས་ཀྱང་བཅད། །

ཁ་ཅིག་གསལ་ཤིང་རྩེ་ལ་བཙུགས། ། ཁ་ཅིག་མདུང་ཐུང་དག་གིས་བསྣུན། །

ཁ་ཅིག་བསྲེགས་པ་དག་ཀྱང་སྣང༌། །

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It appears that some desirous ones

Even have their limbs severed. Some are impaled on stakes. Some are pierced by spears

And some are immolated.

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.

འདོད་ལྡན་ལ་ལ་ལུས་ཀྱང་བཅད། །

ཁ་ཅིག་གསལ་ཤིང་རྩེ་ལ་བཙུགས། ། ཁ་ཅིག་མདུང་ཐུང་དག་གིས་བསྣུན། །

ཁ་ཅིག་བསྲེགས་པ་དག་ཀྱང་སྣང་། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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