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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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प्रत्ययान्तरयुक्तस्य दर्शनात्स्वं प्रकाशते। सिद्धाञ्जनविधेर्दृष्टो घटो नैवाञ्जनं भवेत्॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

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[Cittamātra] It illuminates itself by seeing what is in indirect contact with the cause. [Mādhyamika] A jar seen by applying sight-restoring lotion would still not be the lotion itself.

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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རྐྱེན་གཞན་དག་དང་ལྡན་པ་ནི། །

མཐོང་ཕྱིར་རང་ཉིད་རང་གསལ་ན། ། གྲུབ་པའི་མིག་སྨན་སྦྱོར་བ་ལས། །

བུམ་མཐོང་མིག་སྨན་ཉིད་འགྱུར་མིན། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

24

“In certain cases,” you will say, “the mind

Can see the minds of others, how then not itself?” But through the application of a magic balm,

The eye may see the treasure, but the salve it does not see.

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

You might say, “Since it sees through its association with other conditions,

Self-awareness is self-illuminating.” Through applying the eye lotion of accomplishment,

You see the vase and not the eye lotion itself. [24]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

– Puisque dans [certaines] conditions on voit les [pensées

Des] autres, [l’esprit] ne peut-il s’éclairer lui-même ? – L’application d’un onguent magique permet de voir

Un trésor caché sans que l’onguent soit vu.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

“Si en ciertos casos, la mente puede ver la mente de otros,

¿cómo no va a verse a sí misma?”, preguntáis. Por la aplicación de un bálsamo mágico en el ojo,

éste puede ver un tesoro oculto pero no el bálsamo.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If, ‘It can illuminate itself because

That endowed with other conditions can see.’ By applying the formulated eye balm,

The vase is seen, but not the eye balm.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

It is self-illuminating Because of the presence of other conditions.

By applying the eye medicine of the accomplished ones. Vases can he seen, but not the eye medicine itself.

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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རྐྱེན་གཞན་དང་ནི་ལྡན་བ་ཡི། །

ཤེས་པ་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་ཅེ་ན། ། གཟུགས་དང་མིག་སྨན་ལ་སོགས་ཀྱང་། །

ཤེས་པ་ཉིད་དུ་འདུས་མིན་ནམ། །

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TA: Owing to other conditions,

Mind illuminates itself. MD: Then, don’t forms, eye medicines, and so forth

Belong in mind?

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.

རྐྱེན་གཞན་དག་དང་ལྡན་པ་ནི། །

མཐོང་ཕྱིར་རང་ཉིད་རབ་གསལ་ན། ། གྲུབ་པའི་མིག་སྨན་སྦྱོར་བ་ལས། །

བུམ་མཐོང་མིག་སྨན་ཉིད་འགྱུར་མིན། །175ཏུན་ཧོང་ཀ་དང་ཁ་༴ ‘རྐྱེན་དག་དང་ནྀ་ལྡན་པ་ཡི། །ཤེས་པ་གསལ་བར་བྱེད་ཅེ་ན། །གཟུགས་དང་མྱིག་སྨན་ལས་སྩོགས་ཀྱང་། །ཤེས་པ་ཉིད་དུ་འདུས་མྱིན་འམ། །’

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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