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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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नैवान्तर्न बहिः कायः कथं कायः करादिषु। करादिभ्यः पृथङ् नास्ति कथं नु खलु विद्यते॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

82

The body is not internal, nor is it external to the person; how could it be in the various parts of the body? But it does not exist apart from them. How then is it to exist at all?

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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ཕྱི་དང་ནང་ན་ལུས་མེད་ན། །

ཇི་ལྟར་ལག་སོགས་ལ་ལུས་ཡོད། ། ལག་སོགས་རྣམས་ལས་གཞན་མེད་ན། །

དེ་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

82

If “body” is not outside or within its parts,

How is it, then, residing in its members? And since it is not other than its parts,

How can you say that it exists at all?

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 the body does not exist inside nor outside,

How could the body be in the hands and such? It also does not exist separate from the hands and so forth,

So how could it possibly be found? [82]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Si le corps n’est ni extérieur ni intérieur,

Comment se trouverait-il dans ses parties ? Et s’il ne peut se trouver ailleurs qu’en ses parties ?

Comment existe-t-il ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si el cuerpo no está ni fuera ni dentro,

¿cómo puede encontrarse en sus partes? Y puesto que no es distinto de sus partes,

¿cómo puede decirse que exista?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

If there is no body inside or out,

Then how is there a body in the hands and other parts? If it does not exist apart from them,

Then how can it exist?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If the body is neither inside nor outside,

How could the body be in the limbs such as the hands? If the body is none other than the hands, etc.,

How could it possibly exist?

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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ལག་ལ་སོགས་ལས་གཞན་མེད་ན། །

དེ་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། ། དེ་བས་ལུས་མེད་གཏི་མུག་པས། །

ལག་ལ་སོགས་པ་ལུས་བློ་འབྱུང་། །

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MD: If the body does not exist apart from the hands and other parts,

Then how does it exist? Therefore, there is no body, And the body arises in mind

As the hands and other parts owing to ignorance.

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.

ཕྱི་དང་ནང་ན་ལུས་མེད་ན། །

ཇི་ལྟར་ལག་སོགས་ལ་ལུས་ཡོད། ། ལག་སོགས་རྣམས་ལས་གཞན་མེད་ན། །

དེ་ནི་ཇི་ལྟར་ཡོད་པ་ཡིན། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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