9.143

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 9.143

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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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मायया निर्मितं यच्च हेतुभिर्यच्च निर्मितम्। आयाति तत्कुतः कुत्र याति चेति निरूप्यताम्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

143

One must carefully examine this matter: what is fashioned by magical trickery and what is fashioned by causes, whence has it arisen, where is it going to?

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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སྒྱུ་མས་སྤྲུལ་པ་གང་ཡིན་དང་། །

རྒྱུ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ནི་གང་སྤྲུལ་པ། ། དེ་ནི་གང་ནས་འོངས་གྱུར་ཅིང་། །

གང་དུ་འགྲོ་བའང་བརྟག་པར་གྱིས། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

143

Things, then, bodied forth by magic spells,

And that which is displayed by dint of causes— Whence have these arisen? we should ask;

And where they go to, that we should examine!

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

What is created by illusion

And what is created by causes— Examine where each has come from

And also where they go. [143]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Vous devriez examiner

D’où viennent et où vont Tant les illusions magiques

Que les apparitions produites par des causes.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

De las cosas que aparecen por los conjuros mágicos

y de las que se manifiestan debido a causas debemos preguntarnos de dónde surgen

y examinar adónde van.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

That magically generated by a magician

And that magically generated by a cause Where do they come from, where do they go?

You should analyze this.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

For a thing created by a magician,

What thing is created by what cause? Analyze from whence it comes

And where it goes.

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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སྒྱུ་མས་སྤྲུལ་པ་གང་ཡིན་དང་། །

རྒྱུ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ནི་གང་སྤྲུལ་པ། ། དེ་ནི་གང་ནས་འོང་འགྱུར་ཞིང་། །

གང་དུ་འགྲོ་བ་བརྟགས་པར་གྱིས། །

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MD: Those manifestations produced by illusion,

And those manifestations produced through causes —

Investigate where they come from and where they go.

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.

སྒྱུ་མས་སྤྲུལ་པ་གང་ཡིན་དང་། །

རྒྱུ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ནི་གང་སྤྲུལ་པ། ། དེ་ནི་གང་ནས་འོངས་གྱུར་ཅིང་། །

གང་དུ་འགྲོ་བའང་བརྟག་པར་གྱིས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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