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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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प्रकाशा वाप्रकाशा वा यदा दृष्टा न केनचित्। वन्ध्यादुहितृलीलेव कथ्यमानापि सा मुधा॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

22

Whether the mind is luminous or not, talking about it is pointless since it is never seen by anything, like the beauty of a barren woman's daughter.

Crosby & Skilton 2000

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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གང་ཚེ་འགས་ཀྱང་མཐོང་མིན་ན། །

གསལ་བའམ་ནི་མི་གསལ་བ། ། མོ་གཤམ་བུ་མོའི་འགྱིང་བག་བཞིན། །

དེ་ནི་བརྗོད་ཀྱང་དོན་མེད་དོ། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

22

The mind, indeed, is never seen by anything.

And therefore, whether it can know, or cannot know, itself, Is like the beauty of a barren woman’s daughter:

Something that it’s pointless to discuss.

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 this is not seen by anything,

“Illuminating” and “not illuminating” Are like the looks of a barren woman’s daughter—

Even if described, they are meaningless. [22]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Dès lors que nul ne le perçoit,

Qu’il soit lumineux ou non, Voilà un sujet de conversation aussi futile

Que les charmes de la fille d’une femme stérile.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

No hay nada de hecho que perciba a la mente

y por lo tanto que ésta se conozca o no se conozca a sí misma es, como la belleza de la hija de una mujer estéril,

algo que no tiene sentido discutir.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

To remark about it being illuminated or not illuminated,

When it is not seen by anything, Is pointless even though expressed,

Like the airs of a barren woman’s daughter.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Since nothing at all perceives

Whether it is luminous or not, It is meaningless to describe it,

Like the grace of the daughter of a barren woman.[p.357]A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
Gyaltsen, Lama Kalsang, and Ani Kunga Chodron, trans. A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas Written by Sazang Mati Panchen: Known as An Extremely Clear Illumination of the Meaning of the Text. Walden, NY: Tsechen Kunchab Ling, 2019. First edition published by The Yeshe Dorje Foundation in 2006.

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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གསལ་ལམ་མི་གསལ་ཡང་རུང་སྟེ། །

སུས་ཀྱང་ཇི་བཞིན་མ་མཐོང་བས། ། མོ་ཤམ་གྱི་ནི་བུ་བཞིན་དུ། །

བརྗོད་དུ་ཟིན་ཀྱང་དོན་མེད་དོ། །[p.251]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: Whether illuminating or not illuminating,

If at that time nothing is seen by anyone at all, Then it is similar to the discussion of the bearing and manner Of the son of a barren woman.

Such a discussion is entirely pointless.[p.252]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་འགས་ཀྱང་མཐོང་མིན་ན། །

གསལ་བའམ་ནི་མི་གསལ་བ། ། མོ་གཤམ་བུ་མོའི་འགྱིང་བག་བཞིན། །

དེ་ནི་བརྗོད་ཀྱང་དོན་མེད་དོ། །173ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་དང་ཁ་༴ ‘གསལ་ལམ་མྱྀ་གསལ་ཡང་རུང་སྟེ། །སུས་ཀྱང་ཅྀ་བཞིན་མ་མཐོང་བས། །མོ་གཤམ་གྱྀ་ནི་བུ་བཞིན་དུ། །བརྗོད་དུ་ཟིན་ཀྱང་དོན་མྱེད་དོ། །’

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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