9.86

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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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अंशा अप्यणुभेदेन सोऽप्यणुर्दिग्विभागतः। दिग्विभागो निरंशत्वादाकाशं तेन नास्त्यणुः॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

86

Each of these parts can be further broken down into atoms, and each atom can be divided according to the ten directions. But each of these ten sides is empty space, because it is indivisible. Therefore, the atom does not exist.

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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ཆ་ཡང་རྡུལ་དུ་ཕྱེ་བས་ཏེ། །

རྡུལ་དེའང་ཕྱོགས་ཆའི་དབྱེ་བ་ཡིས། ། ཕྱོགས་དབྱེའང་ཆ་ཤས་དང་བྲལ་ཕྱིར། །

མཁའ་བཞིན་དེས་ན་རྡུལ་ཡང་མེད། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

86

These parts themselves will break down into particles,

And particles divide according to direction. These fragments, too, lack partless parts; they are like space.

Thus even particles have no existence.

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

Consequently, the parts too can be broken down into particles,

And the particles may be divided into their directional parts. Since these directional divisions lack any parts,

They are like space. Therefore, not even particles exist. [86]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Les parties sont à leur tour composées d’atomes

Et l’atome se divise en parties correspondant aux points cardinaux. Cette division spatiale n’aboutissant à aucune partie

Est [comparable à] l’espace, si bien que l’atome n’existe pas.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Esas partes a su vez están compuestas de partículas.

Y cada partícula se divide a su vez en las diversas direcciones. Esos fragmentos, también, carecen de partes indivisibles. Son como el espacio.

Así, incluso las partículas carecen de existencia.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

And the parts are divided into particles,

The particles should be divided into directions. Since the partitioned directions lack parts,

They are like space. Hence, there are also no particles.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Particles can also be split into atoms.

Even atoms can be split into directions. Splitting the directions, one arrives at indivisible parts.

These become like space, so atoms do not 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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ཕྱོགས་ཆ་རྣམས་ཀྱང་ཆ་མེད་པས། །

ནམ་མཁའ་དང་མཚུངས་དེས་རྡུལ་མེད། ། རྡུལ་རྣམས་མེད་པས་བསགས་པ་མེད། །

དེ་ཕྱིར་གཟུགས་ཀྱི་ཕུང་པོ་མེད། །

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MD: The directions are also free of parts.

Thus, atoms are non-existent like space. Because there are no atoms, there are no collections of atoms.

Therefore, there is no skandha of form.

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.

ཆ་ཡང་རྡུལ་དུ་ཕྱེ་བས་ཏེ། །

རྡུལ་དེའང་ཕྱོགས་ཆའི་དབྱེ་བ་ཡིས། ། ཕྱོགས་དབྱེའང་ཆ་ཤས་དང་བྲལ་ཕྱིར། །

མཁའ་བཞིན་དེས་ན་རྡུལ་ཡང་མེད། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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