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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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नाकाशमीशोऽचेष्टत्वात् नात्मा पूर्वनिषेधतः। अचिन्त्यस्य च कर्तृत्वमप्यचिन्त्यं किमुच्यते॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

120

What does he want to create? If a Self, surely that is something eternal? God, consciousness resulting from a cognizable object, and the nature of earth and other elements, are without beginning.

Crosby & Skilton 2002

The Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Guide to the Buddhist Path to Awakening

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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དབང་ཕྱུག་མཁའ་མིན་གཡོ་མེད་ཕྱིར། །

བདག་མིན་སྔར་ནས་བཀག་ཟིན་ཕྱིར། ། བསམ་མིན་པ་ཡི་བྱེད་པོ་ཡང་། །

བསམ་མིན་བརྗོད་པས་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

120

The Deity cannot be space—inert and unproductive.

He cannot be the self, for this we have refuted. He’s inconceivable, they say—then likewise his creatorship.

Is there any point, therefore, to such a claim?

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

Īśvara is not space, because it is inactive.

He is not the self, because this has already been refuted earlier. If he is inconceivable, his state as a creator is inconceivable too,

So what can you say about it? [120][p.760]The Center of the Sunlit Sky
Brunnhölzl, Karl. The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyü Tradition. Including a translation of Pawo Rinpoche's commentary on the knowledge section of Śāntideva's The Entrance to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life (Bodhicaryāvatāra). Nitartha Institute Series. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Dieu est l’espace ? Non, puisque celui-ci ignore le mouvement.

Il n’est pas non plus le soi que nous avons réfuté plus haut. Votre créateur étant inconcevable,

Que pouvez-vous affirmer de lui ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Isvara no puede ser el espacio, pues éste es inerte.

No puede ser el “yo”, pues eso ya ha sido refutado. Decís que es inconcebible, luego su cualidad creadora también lo es.

¿Tiene por lo tanto algún sentido afirmar eso?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Space is not Ishvara because it is immutable.

That the self is not Ishvara has been proven earlier. Also, a creator beyond thought,

What good is it to describe that beyond thought?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Space is not Ishvara because it is inactive, Nor is it the self; this has already been rejected.

If the creator is inconceivable, What is the use of describing the inconceivable?

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.

དབང་ཕྱུག་མཁའ་མིན་གཡོ་མེད་ཕྱིར། །

བདག་མིན་སྔར་ནི་བཀག་ཟིན་ཕྱིར། ། བསམ་མིན་པ་ཡི་བྱེད་པོ་ཡང་། །

བསམ་མིན་བརྗོད་པས་ཅི་ཞིག་བྱ། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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