9.6

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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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प्रत्यक्षमपि रूपादि प्रसिद्ध्या न प्रमाणतः। अशुच्यादिषु शुच्यादिप्रसिद्धिरिव सा मृषा॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

6

It is well established that perception—of visual objects, etc.—is not a reliable means of knowledge. For instance, the common perception of purity in objects that are impure is clearly false.

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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གཟུགས་སོགས་མངོན་སུམ་ཉིད་ཀྱང་ནི། །

གྲགས་པས་ཡིན་གྱི་ཚད་མས་མིན། ། དེ་ནི་མི་གཙང་ལ་སོགས་ལ། །

གཙང་སོགས་གྲགས་པ་བཞིན་དུ་བརྫུན། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

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Forms and so forth, which we all perceive,

Exist by general acclaim but not by valid reasoning. They’re false just like, for instance, unclean things

Regarded in the common view as pure.

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

Also perceptions of forms and such

Are based on common consensus and not on valid cognition. This is delusive, just as the common consensus

That something unclean is clean and so on. [6]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Les formes et les autres objets tirent leur évidence

Du sens commun et non de la connaissance juste. Cette [évidence] est un mensonge comme l’idée commune

Que ce qui est impur est pur, et ainsi de suite.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Las formas y demás, que todos percibimos,

existen por acuerdo general, no por un conocimiento válido. Son falsas del mismo modo que, por ejemplo,

algo impuro desde el punto de vista común es puro.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

The mere direct perception of forms and so forth

Exists through renown and not by prime cognition. They are false, just as impurity and so forth

Are renowned as purity and so forth.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Form, etc. appear in reality

Merely by consensus, not validation. This is false, just as the consensus

That impurity, etc. is pure.[p.349]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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གཟུགས་སོགས་མངོན་སུམ་བློ་ཡིས་ནི། །

རབ་དུ་གྲགས་ཀྱི་ཚད་མས་མིན། ། དེ་ནི་མི་གཙང་ལ་སོགས་ལ། །

གཙང་སོགས་གྲགས་པ་བཞིན་སྟེ་བརྫུན། །

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MD: Although forms and so forth are directly perceived as real,

This is based on common agreement, not by valid cognition. Their reality is mistaken just as unclean qualities

Are commonly held to be clean.

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.

གཟུགས་སོགས་མངོན་སུམ་ཉིད་ཀྱང་ནི། །

གྲགས་པས་ཡིན་གྱི་ཚད་མས་མིན། ། དེ་ནི་མི་གཙང་ལ་སོགས་ལ། །

གཙང་སོགས་གྲགས་པ་བཞིན་དུ་བརྫུན། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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