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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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यावत्प्रत्ययसामग्री तावन्मायापि वर्तते। दीर्घसंतानमात्रेण कथं सत्त्वोऽस्ति सत्यतः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

10

The Author Replies: Magical creations also subsist for as long as there are certain collocations of conditions. Why should you assume that a living being is more real than a magical creation simply because the series of phenomena that you identify with it lasts much longer?

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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ཇི་སྲིད་རྐྱེན་རྣམས་ཚོགས་གྱུར་པ། །

དེ་སྲིད་སྒྱུ་མའང་འབྱུང་བར་འགྱུར། ། རྒྱུན་རིང་ཙམ་གྱིས་ཇི་ལྟར་ན། །

སེམས་ཅན་བདེན་པར་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

10

As long as the conditions are assembled,

Illusions, likewise, will persist and manifest. Why, through simply being more protracted,

Should sentient beings be regarded as more real?

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

For as long as the conditions are assembled,

For that long even an illusion will manifest. How should sentient beings be really existent

Merely because their continua last for a longer time? [10]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

– Les illusions se produisent, elles aussi,

Tant que leurs causes sont réunies. Comment les êtres existeraient-ils réellement

Du simple fait de leur durée ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

En tanto que las condiciones están reunidas,

dura el espejismo a que dan lugar. ¿Por qué iban a ser más reales los seres

meramente por durar más tiempo?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

For as long as the conditions come together

For that long even the illusion exists. Just because of a long continuity

Sentient beings are truly existent?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

As long as conditions are assembled, So long will magical apparitions also occur.

How could sentient beings truly exist Merely because they occur for a longer duration?

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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གལ་ཏེ་སེམས་ཅན་སྒྱུ་འདྲ་ན། །

ཤི་ནས་ཅི་སྟེ་སྐྱེ་ཞེ་ན། ། ཇི་སྲིད་རྐྱེན་རྣམས་ཚོགས་འགྱུར་པ། །

དེ་སྲིད་སྒྱུ་མའང་འབྱུང་བར་འགྱུར། །

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རྒྱུན་རིང་ཙམ་གྱིས་ཇི་ལྟར་ན། །

དངོས་པོ་བདེན་བར་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། ། སྒྱུ་མའི་སྐྱེས་བུ་བསད་སོགས་ལ། །

སེམས་མེད་ཕྱིར་ན་སྡིག་པ་མེད། །

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Other School (OS): You ask, if sentient beings are like an illusion

How is it that they take rebirth after dying? MD: As long as suitable conditions come together,

Even illusions will manifest.

MD: Why should merely living for a long time,

Make sentient beings truly exist? In actions such as killing and so forth, No unwholesome actions are performed

Since beings from an illusion have no mind.

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.

ཇི་སྲིད་རྐྱེན་རྣམས་འཚོགས་གྱུར་པ། །

དེ་སྲིད་སྒྱུ་མའང་འབྱུང་བར་འགྱུར། ། རྒྱུན་རིང་ཙམ་གྱིས་ཇི་ལྟར་ན། །

སེམས་ཅན་164ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་༴ ‘དངོས་པོ་’བདེན་པར་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། །

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