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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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निरंशस्य च संसर्गः कथं नामोपपद्यते। संसर्गे च निरंशत्वं यदि दृष्टं निदर्शय॥

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Recitation by Professor Kashinath Nyaupane

95

Moreover, how can there be any contact between two things that have no parts? If you know of instances of indivisibility in entities that meet in contact, show them to me![p.436]How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)
Gómez, Luis O., trans. "How to Be a Bodhisattva: Introduction to the Practice of the Bodhisattva Path (The Bodhicaryāvatāra)." In Norton Anthology of World Religions: Buddhism, edited by Donald S. Lopez Jr., 395–441. New York: Norton, 2017.

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་མེད་པ་ལའང་ཕྲད་པ་ཞེས། །

བྱ་བ་ཇི་ལྟར་འཐད་པར་འགྱུར། ། ཕྲད་པ་དང་ནི་ཆ་མེད་པ* ཆ་མེད་པར་ in the source text. ། །

གལ་ཏེ་མཐོང་ན་བསྟན་པར་གྱིས། །

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Recitation by Lopen Karma Phuntsho

95

For how could anyone accept

That what is partless could be said to meet? And you must show me, if you ever saw,

A contact taking place between two partless things.[p.151]The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)
Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyāvatāra. By Śāntideva. Rev. ed. Shambhala Classics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2006.

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

So how could you possibly say

That partless entities come into contact? Should you ever bump into a meeting of partless entities,

Please be so kind as to introduce us to it. [95]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Comment peut-on raisonnablement parler

De contact entre deux indivisibles ? Si vous avez déjà observé ce genre de contact,

Veuillez nous en montrer un exemple !

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

“Lo que es indivisible puede estar en contacto”,

¿cómo puede aceptarse tal cosa? Ese contacto entre dos cosas indivisibles,

si alguna vez lo visteis, debéis mostrármelo.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

How could it possibly be valid to say

That the partless can meet. In case the partless and their meeting

Is observed, show it!

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

For something indivisible, there can be no meeting,

How could it possibly function? If it is possible, then demonstrate

How the indivisible can meet.

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.

ཆ་མེད་པ་ལའང་ཕྲད་པ་ཞེས། །

བྱ་བ་ཇི་ལྟར་འཐད་པར་འགྱུར། ། ཕྲད་པ་དང་ནི་ཆ་མེད་པར། །

གལ་ཏེ་མཐོང་ན་བསྟན་པར་གྱིས། །

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