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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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यदि तस्यैव यद्दुःखं रक्ष्यं तस्यैव तन्मतम्। पाददुःखं न हस्तस्य कस्मात्तत्तेन रक्ष्यते॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

99

If you think that only one’s own suffering should be avoided, then given that the foot’s pains are not the hand’s, how come the latter protects the former?

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་ཚེ་གང་གི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གང་། །

དེ་ནི་དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་བསྲུང་ན། ། རྐང་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ལག་པས་མིན། །

ཅི་ཕྱིར་དེས་ནི་དེ་བསྲུང་བྱ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

99

“It’s for the sufferers themselves,” you’ll say,

“To shield themselves from injuries that come!” The pain felt in my foot is not my hand’s,

So why, in fact, should one protect the other?

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

Il revient à celui qui souffre

De se protéger contre la souffrance. La douleur du pied n’étant pas celle de la main,

Pourquoi celle-ci protégerait-elle celui-là ?[p.150]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Quizá creas que cuando surge un sufrimiento,

el que sufre es el que ha de protegerse. El dolor del pie no es el de la mano,

entonces, ¿por qué ésta ha de proteger a aquél?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

When something is suffering

And one protects another, The suffering of the foot is not that of the hand

Why should it protect it?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If others must protect themselves

From their own suffering, Then as the hand does not experience the suffering of the leg,

Why does it protect it?

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་ཚེ་གང་གི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གང་། །

དེ་ནི་དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་བསྲུང་ན། ། རྐང་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ལག་པར་མིན། །

ཅི་ཕྱིར་དེ་ནི་དེས་བསྲུང་བྱ། །

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If at the time of an individual’s suffering,

An individual only has to protect themself, Then why does a hand protect a suffering foot

When the suffering of the foot is not the hand’s?

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་ཚེ་གང་གི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གང་། །

དེ་ནི་དེ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་བསྲུངས་ན། ། རྐང་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ལག་པས་མིན། །

ཅི་ཕྱིར་དེས་ནི་དེ་བསྲུང་བྱ། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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