9.105

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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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अथ ज्ञेयाद्भवेत् पश्चात् तदा ज्ञानं कुतो भवेत्। एवं च सर्वधर्माणामुत्पत्तिर्नावसीयते॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

105

But, again, if it appeared after its object, then whence did this cognition arise? In the same manner one cannot apprehend any arising in any thing whatsoever.

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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འོན་ཏེ་ཤེས་བྱའི་ཕྱིས་ཡོད་ན། །

དེ་ཚེ་ཤེས་པ་གང་ལས་སྐྱེ། ། དེ་ལྟར་ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། །

སྐྱེ་བ་རྟོགས་པར་འགྱུར་མ་ཡིན། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

105

If consciousness comes later than its object,

Once again, from what does it arise? Thus the origin of all phenomena

Exceeds the reach of understanding.

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

If it came after the knowable object, From what would consciousness arise then? [105ab]

Thus, you cannot come to the conclusion That any phenomenon arises. [105cd]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Enfin, si elle lui est postérieure,

D’où naît la conscience ? Il est donc impossible de concevoir

La naissance d’aucune chose.[p.183]La Marche vers l'Éveil (2007)

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Y si la consciencia surge posteriormente a su objeto,

de nuevo, ¿qué la hace aparecer? Así, el origen de todos los fenómenos

rebasa el alcance del entendimiento.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Well then, if it exists subsequently to the object, At that time what is consciousness generated from?

In such a way the generation of all phenomena Is not realized.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

However, if the knower arises after the known, Then from what does the knower arise?

Thus, one cannot realize The birth of any phenomenon.

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.

འོན་ཏེ་ཤེས་བྱའི་ཕྱིས་ཡོད་ན། །

དེ་ཆེ་ཤེས་པ་གང་ལས་སྐྱེ། ། དེ་ལྟར་ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི། །

སྐྱེ་བ་རྟོགས་པར་འགྱུར་མ་ཡིན། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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