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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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एवमङ्गुलिपुञ्जत्वात्पादोऽपि कतरो भवेत्। सोऽपि पर्वसमूहत्वात् पर्वापि स्वांशभेदतः॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

85

In the same way, one may ask: in the ensemble of toes and bones, where is the foot? The foot also comes to be by the collocation of joints and bones, and these members in turn can be analyzed into their own minute parts.

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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དེ་བཞིན་སོར་མོའི་ཚོགས་ཡིན་ཕྱིར། །

ལག་པའང་གང་ཞིག་ཡིན་པར་འགྱུར། ། དེ་ཡང་ཚིགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་ཡིན་ཕྱིར། །

ཚིགས་ཀྱང་རང་གི་ཆ་ཕྱེ་བས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

85

Likewise, since it is a group of fingers,

The hand itself does not exist as such. And so it is with fingers, made of joints—

And joints themselves consist of many parts.

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

In the same way, what would a foot be,

Since it is just a collection of toes? As these are collections of knuckles,

The knuckles can likewise be divided into their parts. [85]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

De même, assemblage de doigts,

La main non plus n’existe pas. Le doigt n’est qu’un groupe de phalanges,

Et la phalange est composée de parties.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Del mismo modo, la mano en sí no existe como tal,

puesto que no es más que un conjunto de dedos. E incluso los dedos son un conjunto de falanges

y cada falange está compuesta de muchas partes.[p.167]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

Likewise, because of being the collection of fingers,

What could the hand also become? Because they in turn are a collection of digits,

Also the digits are divided by their parts,

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Likewise, in the assembled segments of fingers, Where is the actual hand?

The segments are also assembled from their own parts, Those parts can also be split into particles.

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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དེ་ཡང་ཚིག་གི་ཚོགས་ཡིན་ལ། །

ཚིག་ཀྱང་རང་གི་ཆ་ཤས་དབྱེ། ། ཆ་ཤས་ཀྱང་ནི་རྡུལ་ཕྱེ་ནས། །

དེ་ཡང་དེ་འདྲར་རྣམ་པར་གཞིག །

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MD: Furthermore, fingers are collections of joints,

And even joints have their separate parts. Even the parts can be divided into atoms,

And moreover, the atoms can be broken down.

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.

དེ་བཞིན་སོར་མོའི་ཚོགས་ཡིན་ཕྱིར། །

ལག་པའང་གང་ཞིག་ཡིན་པར་འགྱུར། ། དེ་ཡང་ཚིགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་ཡིན་ཕྱིར། །

ཚིགས་ཀྱང་རང་གི་ཆ་ཕྱེ་བས། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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