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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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चित्तमेव यदा माया तदा किं केन दृश्यते। उक्तं च लोकनाथेन चित्तं चित्तं न पश्यति॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

17

The Author Replies: If the illusion is nothing but mind, then what is perceived by what? Furthermore, the World Protector has declared that the mind does not perceive the mind.

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་སེམས་ཉིད་སྒྱུ་མ་ན། །

དེ་ཚེ་གང་ཞིག་གང་གིས་མཐོང་། ། འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ནི་མགོན་པོས་ཀྱང་། །

སེམས་ཀྱིས་སེམས་མི་མཐོང་ཞེས་གསུངས། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

17

But if the mirage is the mind itself,

What is then perceived by what? The Guardian of the World himself has said

That mind cannot be seen by mind.

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

Once mind itself is the illusion,

Then what is seen by what? The protector of the world has declared,

“Mind does not see mind.” [17]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

– Si l’esprit [lui-même] est illusoire,

Qu’est-ce qui est perçu, et par quoi ? Le Protecteur des mondes déclare

Que « l’esprit ne se perçoit pas lui-même

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Pero, si esas ilusiones engañosas son la mente misma,

¿qué es entonces lo percibido y qué es lo que lo percibe? El Protector del mundo dijo

que la mente no se percibe a sí misma.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

When the mere mind is an illusion, At that time what is seen by what?[p.16]The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
Stracke, Fedor, trans. The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors: A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. By Gyaltsab Rinpoche. N.p.: Happy Monks Publication, 2016. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/.

Even the protector of the worlds said That mind does not see mind.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If the mind is a magical apparition, Then what is perceived by whom?

The Protector of Worldly Beings said that The mind cannot be perceived by the mind.

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་སེམས་ཉིད་སྒྱུ་མ་ན། །

དེས་ན་གང་ཞིག་གང་གིས་དམིགས། ། རལ་གྲི་སོ་ནི་རང་ལ་རང་། །

ཇི་ལྟར་མི་གཅོད་དེ་བཞིན་ཡིད། །[p.249]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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MD: If mind itself is an illusion,

Then who is the seer and what is seen? Just as the edge of a sword cannot cut itself,

So, mind cannot see itself.[p.250]Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas (2022, Khenpo Gawang and Wiener)
Gawang, Khenpo, and Gerry Wiener, trans. Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Entering the Way of the Bodhisattvas by Shantideva - Dunhuang Edition. Memphis, TN: Jeweled Lotus Publishing, 2022.

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་སེམས་ཉིད་སྒྱུ་མ་ན། །

དེ་ཚེ་གང་ཞིག་གང་གིས་མཐོང་། ། འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ནི་མགོན་པོས་ཀྱང་། །

སེམས་ཀྱིས་སེམས་མི་མཐོང་ཞེས་གསུངས། །168ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་ལ་ཚིག་རྐང་མཐའ་མ་གཉིས་མེད།

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