9.89

Bodhicaryāvatāra · Verse 9.89

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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.

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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बलीयसाभिभूतत्वाद्यदि तन्नानुभूयते। वेदनात्वं कथं तस्य यस्य नानुभवात्मता॥

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

89

If you propose that the weaker sensation cannot be experienced when it is overpowered by the stronger sensation, why call sensation what cannot be experienced? . . .

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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སྟོབས་དང་ལྡན་པས་ཟིལ་མནན་ཕྱིར། །

གལ་ཏེ་དེ་མྱོང་མ་ཡིན་ན། ། གང་ཞིག་ཉམས་མྱོང་བདག་ཉིད་མིན། །

དེ་ནི་ཚོར་བ་ཇི་ལྟར་ཡིན། །

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Chanted Verse

Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

89

If the feeling fails to be experienced,

Through being overwhelmed by something stronger, How can “feeling” rightly be ascribed

To that which lacks the character of being felt?

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

You might say, “It is not experienced,

Because it is overridden by something stronger.”

How could something be a feeling [89]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

S’il est impossible d’éprouver une sensation

Parce qu’une autre plus forte l’éclipse, Comment peut-on appeler « sensation »

Ce qui n’a pas nature d’être éprouvé ?

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Si esa sensación no se experimenta,

porque otra más fuerte la eclipsa, ¿cómo puede llamarse “sensación”

a algo que carece de la cualidad de ser sentido?

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Perhaps due to being powerful it suppresses

And there is no experience. How can that not in the nature of

Simultaneous experience, be a feeling?

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

If one is not experienced due to being overwhelmed

By the power of the other, If there is no actual experience,

How could a feeling be experienced at that time?

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas

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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.

སྟོབས་དང་ལྡན་པས་ཟིལ་མནན་ཕྱིར། །

གལ་ཏེ་དེ་མྱོང་མ་ཡིན་ན། ། གང་ཞིག་ཉམས་མྱོང་བདག་ཉིད་མིན། །

དེ་ནི་ཚོར་བ་ཇི་ལྟར་ཡིན། །

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Tsadra Critical Edition

The Written Works of Śāntideva (Phuntsho 2025)

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