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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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नाहं मांसं न च स्नायु नोष्मा वायुरहं न च। न च च्छिद्राण्यहं नापि षड् विज्ञानानि सर्वथा॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

59

If I were consciousness of sound, then sound would be perceived at all times. But without something to be conscious of, what does it perceive on account of which there is said to be consciousness?

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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ཤ་དང་པགས་པ་བདག་མིན་ཏེ། །

དྲོད་དང་རླུང་ཡང་བདག་མ་ཡིན། ། བུ་ག་བདག་མིན་རྣམ་ཀུན་ཏུ། །

རྣམ་ཤེས་དྲུག་ཀྱང་བདག་མ་ཡིན། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

59

The flesh and skin are not the “I,”

And neither are the body’s warmth and breath. The cavities within the frame are not the “I,”

And “I” is not accounted for in sixfold consciousness.

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

I am not flesh or sinew,

Nor am I the body’s warmth, its respiration, Or its orifices.

I am not the six consciousnesses in any way either. [59]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Chair et peau ne sont pas moi ;

Chaleur et air ne le sont pas non plus ; Les orifices pas davantage ; et en aucun cas

Les six consciences ne sont moi.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

La carne o la piel no son el “yo”,

tampoco lo son el calor o la respiración, ninguna de las cavidades internas lo es,

ni lo es ninguna de las seis consciencias.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

The flesh and skin are not the self,

The heat and air are not the self, The holes are not the self, and certainly the

Six primary consciousnesses are not the self.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Likewise, flesh or skin is not the self,

Nor is heat or wind the self. The holes could never said to be the self.

Nor are the six sense consciousnesses the self.

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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ཤ་དང་པགས་པ་བདག་མིན་ཏེ། །

དྲོད་དང་རླུང་ཡང་བདག་མ་ཡིན། ། བུ་ག་བདག་མིན་རྣམ་ཀུན་དུ། །

རྣམ་ཤེས་དྲུག་ནི་བདག་མ་ཡིན། །

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MD: Flesh and skin are not the self.

Warmth and wind are also not the self. The orifices are also not the self.

Finally, the six consciousnesses are not the self.

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.

ཤ་དང་པགས་པ་བདག་མིན་ཏེ། །

དྲོད་དང་རླུང་ཡང་བདག་མ་ཡིན། ། བུ་ག་བདག་མིན་རྣམ་ཀུན་དུ། །

རྣམ་ཤེས་དྲུག་ཀྱང་བདག་མ་ཡིན། །

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The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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