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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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यतस्ततो वास्तु भयं यद्यहं नाम किंचन। अहमेव च किंचिच्चेद्भयं कस्य भविष्यति॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

56

The teeth, hair, or nails are not I, nor is the bone, nor am I the blood, neither the mucus nor the phlegm, not the pus nor the synovial fluid.

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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གལ་ཏེ་བདག་འགའ་ཡོད་ན་ནི། །

ཅི་ཡང་རུང་ལས་འཇིགས་འགྱུར་ན། ། བདག་ཉིད་འགའ་ཡང་ཡོད་མིན་པས། །

འཇིགས་པར་འགྱུར་བ་སུ་ཞིག་ཡིན། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

56

If such a thing as “I” exists indeed,

Then terrors, granted, will torment it. But since no self or “I” exists at all,

What is there left for fears to terrify?

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

If there were something called “I,”

It might be afraid of things here and there. However, since there is no “I” at all,

Who is it who could be afraid? [56]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Si le moi existait, il aurait

Peur de ceci, de cela. Or il n’y a pas de moi :

Qui donc peut encore avoir peur ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si el “yo” fuese algo que existiese

podría tener miedo de esto o aquello. Pero puesto que el “yo” no existe,

¿quién es, pues, el que tiene miedo?[p.163]La Práctica del Bodisatva
Hervás, María Jesús (Padmakara Translation Group, Spain), trans. La Práctica del Bodisatva: Una Traducción del Bodicharyavatara de Shantideva. Translated from the 2006 English translation of Helena Blankleder and Wulstan Fletcher. Novelda, Alicante, Spain: Ediciones Dharma, 2008.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If some selves exist

And one becomes afraid of any object, Since there is no nature at all

Who is the one afraid?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If there is something that is the so-called self,

One could feel fear toward any aspect of it. There is no so-called self whatsoever,

So, who could feel that fear?

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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བདག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ་འགའ་ཡོད་ན། །

ཅི་ཡང་རུང་ལས་འཇིགས་གྲང་ན། ། བདག་ཉིད་ཅུང་ཟད་ཡོད་མིན་ན། །

སུ་ཞིག་ལ་ནི་འཇིགས་པར་འགྱུར། །

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MD: If there is some so-called self,

It would be suitable to be afraid of anything. Because there is not even the littlest amount of self,

Who is there to be fearful?

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.

གལ་ཏེ་བདག་འགའ་ཡོད་ན་ནི། །

ཅི་ཡང་རུང་ལས་འཇིགས་འགྱུར་ན། ། བདག་ཉིད་འགའ་ཡང་ཡོད་མིན་པས། །

འཇིགས་པར་འགྱུར་བ་སུ་ཞིག་ཡིན། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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